Sangre Eterna

Plot synopsis:
There's going to be a total lunar eclipse over Santiago, Chile next Monday.
The astrologers predict that there will be emotional consequences
and changes all around.Professor Romero [Jorge Denegri] has given an assignment that his journalism students
aren't too happy about...to conduct an interview with
someone...anyone...just so long as it's someone of interest. While sitting
in Romero's history lecture about the influence of Christian ideas in
Latin America, one of his students, a Goth wannabee chick, notices a cute
Goth boy sitting in the back of the room. Hmm, he looks "interesting."
Later, when she sees him in the hallway, she asks if she can interview
him. He's too busy right now, he says.His name is "M", and he is the Master in a game of Sangre Eterna
(like V:tM) with his two Goth amigos Elizabeth [Patricia López] and Martín [Claudio Espinoza]. They are
walking down the street when they notice the sidewalks are empty of
people. Suddenly, they are open-fired upon by a group of vampire-hunting
priests and nuns. M [Juan Pablo Ogalde] takes out one of the priests while Elizabeth takes
cover behind a car. A lone priest blows a hole in Martín's stomach. As the
priest is about to put another bullet in Martín's brain, M speeds by and
breaks the priest's neck. Just then, their bodies begin to steam, and they
realize that they've been out in the sun too long and must take cover.
Meanwhile, Elizabeth has beheaded a nun and is drinking her blood when she
is ambushed by another gun-toting team of priests. They riddle Elizabeth
with bullets as the sun peeks its way over the buildings. Severely wounded
and now exposed to the sun, Elizabeth begins to burn up."You're about to lose your life," M tells Elizabeth after looking at
her dice roll. "If you die, so does your character."Elizabeth does not want to give up her character, so M comes up with
a plan...get another player whose character can jump in and save
them...and he knows just the person...that cute Goth chick who asked him
for an interview this afternoon. She'd be perfect for the role of
Carmilla. The next day at school, when M passes "Carmilla" in the hallway,
he stops to talk to her. This time he agrees to be interviewed, and they
go to a cafe where they can talk. It turns out that Carmilla [Blanca Lewin] really digs
vampires, so M invites her to play Sangre Eterna. After teaching her how to roleplay,
the "vampires" pick up where the game left off. As Elizabeth is about to
die, Carmilla uses Speed to whip past all the vampire hunters and slit
their necks before they can kill Elizabeth. Unfortunately, Carmilla's
arrival from the Vaida's clans has released two ghouls who set upon
Martín. Smelling the ghouls, M retreats, leaving Martín to fight alone.
Together, Carmilla and Elizabeth defeat the ghouls and save Martín.
Carmilla is a natural player, and the group is happy to have her.M is happy, too. He and Carmilla have hit it off quite well. To
celebrate a successful gaming session, Elizabeth invites them to accompany
her to a party at her friend's house. The address takes them to a wrought
iron gate that fronts a big, spooky-looking, rundown house with no lights
in the windows and no suggestion that any party is going on. Elizabeth
eventually finds the way in. The inside of the house is even spookier than
the outside. The guests are decked in their finest Goth garb, lit candles
are all over, and there's a lot of drinking and toking going on.
When party host Dahmer arrives, M gets the chills. He recognizes
Dahmer from Blondie's (a club). After drinking a bit too much last night at
Blondie's, M had gone into the men's room to relieve himself. While M
stood in a stall, Dahmer and his watchdog friend Punk entered and proceeded
to severely beat a third guy they thought was a snitch. Through a crack in
the stall door, M saw it all, including the part where Dahmer turned into
a vampire and bit the snitch's neck. M doesn't like how chummy Dahmer is
getting with Elizabeth, so he follows them out back, where they appear to
be necking. When Dahmer raises his face from Elizabeth's neck, M is
certain he can see fangs and blood.The next morning, M awakens to a big spot of blood on the side of his
head and doesn't remember how he got it. Carmilla explains that he got
into some kind of row with Dahmer, and Punk had to clobber him in order to
get M to stop. When Carmilla and M meet up again after class, Carmilla
wonders where Elizabeth is, and M says that Martín said that Elizabeth
spent the whole night at Dahmer's house. M confesses to Carmilla that he
has a bad feeling about Dahmer, but Carmilla poohpoohs him. When Martín
phones M later that evening to tell him that he's going over to Dahmer's
house to buy some "stuff," M tries to warn Martín about Dahmer, but Martín
isn't concerned either.
Realizing that he's alone with his concerns about Dahmer, M begins to
do a little research. He has learned in Romero's class about the Church's
teaching that the soul of anyone who drinks blood will not enter heaven
because "the blood is the life." He downloads some information from the
Internet about "Saving Souls." The next morning is Saturday, so he goes
over to the library to do a little reading on how the church purifies
souls. He runs into Romero. Always interested in helping a student
interested in Christian history, Romero provides M with even more books
and papers on the subject.That evening, Dahmer is holding another party, a more private one for
his special friends. Martín tries to talk M into going, but he doesn't
want to, even though he's worried about Elizabeth. When Carmilla shows up,
however, and says that she is going, M tags along. When Dahmer offers his
guests some good "stuff," M refuses and tries to force Carmilla to leave
with him, but Carmilla doesn't want to go. Dahmer orders M thrown out of
the party. M returns to his apartment. He rages in anger until he finally
falls asleep. He is awakened several hours later when Carmilla shows up,
her wrists covered with blood. M carries her into his bedroom, lays her on
the bed, and tries to clean the blood off her wrists, but all Carmilla
wants to do is have sex. While they are so engaged, M looks up to see that
Carmilla's face has turned into that of a vampire.Sure that all his friends have been turned into vampires, M knows
that he must do something. But what? Sunday morning, he goes to see his
father, but good old dad is at work, as usual. M tries to phone his father
at work but gets chewed out for interrupting him. M returns to his own
apartment to find Carmilla gone. He tries to call Carmilla's mother but
hangs up when she lights into him. He tries to call Romero but gets an
answering machine. Out of ideas, M finally goes snooping at Dahmer's house
and finds him passing around a cup and telling his followers about the
ritual they will perform tomorrow night during the lunar eclipse, the
ritual that will "finish what we have started."M knows what he must do. The next morning, Monday, M pays a visit to
a nearby church. While there, he dips a handful of bullets into a bowl of
holy water. After the sun has set and the lunar eclipse begun, M returns
to Dahmer's house, bullets in gun, gun in hand. He begins to shoot at
everyone in the house, even Martín. Dahmer comes flying at M in an attempt
to stop the shooting, but M puts a stake of wood through Dahmer's chest.
Elizabeth is in the bathroom when she hears Carmilla screaming, peeks out
the bathroom door, and sees M firing a bullet into Carmilla's abdomen.
Elizabeth watches as Dahmer reappears (where's the stake in his chest?)
and knocks down M. Then she starts to scream.Elizabeth has been taken to the police station where the police
attempt to calm her down while they wait for her parents. Carmilla is
being rushed into surgery, while her mother sits in the waiting room
watching news reports of the lunar eclipse. M and Romero sit in the police
interrogation room while M tries to explain to Romero how he got the idea
of saving his friends' souls from the professor's own teachings. Romero is
horrified that M would have so twisted his words and storms out of the
room while M yells, "This isn't over yet!"So what happened? Was Dahmer really a vampire, turning M's friends
into vampires? Was M a psychotic murderer? Were they just kids unable to
handle the "good stuff"? Was it the effects of the lunar eclipse?Epilogue: Carmilla lies asleep in her hospital bed after undergoing
surgery. The EKG beeps...beeps...beeps...then straightlines. Carmilla
opens her eyes. In an alternative ending, all the characters -- M, Carmilla, Martín,
Elizabeth, Dahmer, Punk, and Romero -- are seated around the playing table
at the end of an all-night session of Sangre Eterna. Dahmer opens the
curtains, letting in the sun, laughs and says to M, "I'll kill you
tomorrow." Carmilla goes home, sneaks into her bedroom, and hops into
bed. [Original synopsis by bj_kuehl]

Tags: gothic

Review:
I popped this disk in not expecting much, I only bought it because it was dirt cheap and I'm a fanatic about vampire movies.
I was *very* pleasantly surprised that the movie takes place within the "goth" subculture, and even more so at how authentic the subculture was represented.
You'd think more horror movies, especially vampire ones, would have more of this influence.
I may be a bit prejudiced about liking this movie so much because I love a movie in which I can relate to the characters, who, might I add, are absolutely beautiful, I could stare at them for hours.
The plot is original, I've never seen the whole role-playing game scenario used in a vampire movie before.
I loved how it kept you guessing...are the vampires real, or is M just delusional.
Obviously, with the limited budget, some things are left to be desired, but that just goes with the independent film territory...especially with horror movies that require makeup and special effects.
This is definitely in my top 10 of favorite vampire movies!.
I was surprised at how much I really liked this movie.
The story has a very original twist on the typical vampire script idea.
It has a truly dark and brooding atmosphere about it throughout the film.
The use of blue-tinted lighting throughout the movie helped the atmosphere greatly.
The special effects make-up and prosthetics were better than most "A" Hollywood films...they didn't look so cheesy like in so many vampire films.
Quirky characters make many of the scenes quite memorable.Maybe it had to do with the fact that this film was shot in Chile, and I usually enjoy foreign films.
I'm not really sure if I've ever seen a film from Chile before this.
I would indeed like to see more if they are generally of this high quality.Compared to the last few vampire direct-to-video films I've seen...this is far superior in many aspects.
This Latin film is really amazing.
This Latin film is really amazing.
A group of young people has a singular game on vampires.
At the outset it can seem a simple film of vampires, but soon this begins to transform itself into very dark nightmare, with good special effects, but with good actors, something very rare for this type of films I don't tell much about the plot to ruin the surprise.
This film does not have million of the American industry, but it has much creativity, well-taken care of line of vision.
I did not know that it was a Latin film (from Chile) until seeing an exhibition here in Mexico.
In the old spirit of gore, this movie from Chile centers on some goth youngsters that play a dungeons and dragons-style game, where they become vampires.
Lead by young charismatic characters, the movie's triumph is its cinematography and style.
Too bad that I saw it with no subtitles, though, it made me miss a lot of the movie..
Although Having a Confused Beginning, a Good Vampire Movie.
She needs to interview a person for her homework of philosophy class, and she meets M (Juan Pablo Ogalde), a vampire lover that plays a RPG called "Eternal Blood" with his Gothic friends Elizabeth (Patricia Lopez) and Martin (Claudio Espinoza), in a seminar.
After the interview, she is invited to participate in the game and dates M in a party in a house owned by the weird Dahmer (Carlos Borquez).
He decides to use the content of the philosophy classes to save Carmilla and his friends from the claws of Dahmer.Although having a confused beginning, "Sangre Eterna" is a good vampire movie.
Then the gore and Gothic story becomes very intriguing and has a great conclusion.
The dark cinematography and music score fits very well to this simple, but efficient film.
My vote is six.Title (Brazil): "Sangue Eterno" ("Eternal Blood")Note: On 23 May 2010 I saw this film again..
It's not common to find a film of fantastic genre in Latin America and coverall films South American of this type.
battles in the streets between, armed nuns and vampires, soon an unexpected turn, Gothic parties, subrealistic scenes, a dark and solitary city, a tormented and confused hero, much blood and ultraviolence, FXs, etc This is Latin American cinema?
was fascinating, only I remember "Cronos" of Guillermo del Toro, like a new innovation in the sort of the vampire by these sides.
Eternal blood is a new blood for the Latin American fantastic.
I wait for with anxieties new films of this Latin director!.
a must see vampire movie.
this is one of the best vampire movies I've seen in a long time.
now days it seems like people are running out of ideas for good and original movies, especially in the horror genre.
its nice to see one that takes a fresh view from something as universal as role-playing as the storytelling engine that drives the movie.
overall, i loved this film.
i accidentally ran across this at the video store, and had to watch it cause i thought it would be a "B" rated horror flick, but i was pleasantly surprised to find out that the plot was good, the acting was good, the music was awesome, and the DP work was good.
the only thing not top notch was the cover art, but that may have been on purpose to get people like me to pick it up.
everyone needs to find this movie at a local video store, or just go buy the thing, its worth it..
It is a film of low budget, but its Gothic and dark atmosphere is very well obtained.
Sangre Eterna(eternal blood) mixture two situations, the fantasy, where the protagonists soon play like vampires and the horror, when the protagonists really discover vampires.
Without a doubt this film is better than many other films of vampires of Hollywood.
The film is elegant, remembers the style of Dario Argento and has much of psychological horror.
Soundtrack is incredible, pure Gothic rock in Spanish!.
Not a bad vampire film for being extremely low-budget and being from Chile.
First off this is this director's 2nd film and before everyone rips it pieces could you do better had you been the director with their budget?
I really enjoyed this Spanish-version vampire film as it's was done not in a style reminscent of American,Asian,or European horror films that we've all seen before.
The version I saw was unrated and very gory and I apperciate the ending where dumb people will go "Huh" and those of us who actually paid attention will be like where there's 2 ways to explain whether or not they were vampires at all?
Very good foregin horror film compared to others that I've seen.
Perfect mixture of horror and drama.
Without a doubt the film is of low budget but more than it surprises is its perfect mixture of horror and drama.
It is a film of vampires very different from which we are customary to see.
The first part is horror, action and Gore.
It is really a refreshment for the abused genre the vampire.
The special effects well are done and the powerful Spanish bands of rock are brilliant.
Another great point to its favor is its great description of real the gothic world, not like in other films where everything is false, here the gothic world is very well represented.
I loved the film.
Honestly I thought it was really cool, besides the fact I kinda didnt understand like a word or two.
I love vampire tales and this was a great one, in my view.
After studying film making, I thought it was a really good film.
Oh I know it was NO "Anne Rice's Interview with a Vampire", but it was TOTALLY a great movie that I would love to own.
Yes, it was gory and kinda scary and weird on parts, but its a vampire movie...you kinda have to expect that.out of 10?
An eye-popping-blood-spilling horror film till now..
Sangre Eterna (Eternal Blood) is not just a great horror-vampire film.
Chilean young Writer/Director not only displays a quantum leap from his first feature film Angel Negro (Black Angel)but also gives a contemporary look to the everlasting theme of vampires.
The plot is basically the story of M (Juan Pablo Ogalde) and friends who devote their time mostly playing a role game of vampires called Sangre Eterna, then Carmilla (Blanca Levin)comes into M's world not only as a lover but as a new player of the game too.As time goes by they encounter a dark and mysterious owner of a semi-demolished goth house who invites them to assist their parties and gatherings.
Soon M finds out that these people are not only goth freaks like them but somthing more terriffing and ancient and that vampires not only exist in their role game but in real life too.
Jorge Olguin brings new airs to the chilean cinema scene with a 'pure blood' genre movie which was never done before, adding to the mix state-of-the-art special fx and prosthetics (also never done before in these latitudes)with great performances (specially the one that displays J.P. Ogalde as M)and sound design (made by Chilefilms with 3d dolby surround systems)...as a result you get a real good-blood shedding modern vampire tale, that revists the theme in a unique way with low budget and high visuals.
A MUST-SEE for gore/vampire lovers, although it is not a film that is among the masters Dario Argento or the late-gone-million dollar budget, Sam Raimi.Karel Jorge Bosaans..
Vampires & goth.
I really liked this movie.
The work contains three subjects always appreciated in a movie: vampirism, psychopathology and underground/Gothic scene.
In the first ten minutes you'd probably think it is an ugly film about guns, vampires-zombies and religious persecution, but very soon the story grows to another point very interesting...
I definitely would watch this movie again, and that is a sweet flattery to say about this chilean film.
You better don't expect a "masterpiece", but it is a good work, def.
One of the intentions of the director was to focus more on the human reaction to fear, this is a plus in the movie...
This vampire's movie is one of the worst I've ever seen.Every thing in this movie is awful.there is nothing to remember in Sangre Eterna.It's really sad, because, I'd liked to see the vampire's mythology revisited..
One of the comments who surprise me gratefully is the notice that this movie is (at this time) filmed in USA as a Remake.
Historically is the first Chilean movie that's been filmed in USA from an original Chilean idea.
Probably (we don't know yet) the film director will be Jorge Olgin, the same director of the original Sangre Eterna but with more FX and all the foreigner technology.Personally I recommend this movie..
I'm a fan of horror films and of vampires, my favorite is an old film called Near Dark, for that reason when I could obtain a copy of this films was amazing!
It's a film that is centered in the drama of a group of young people disillusioned of the life and they become jumbled in a subworld of urban vampires.
I have seen much garbage of Hollywood with greater budget and this film it's a breathing and demonstrates that the budget is not everything.
My favorite scene is when the protagonists it has very particular a loving encounter to Marilyn Manson had liked to be there.
It has interesting a sound track of bands of rock in Spanish, but apparently he is hard to find, in any case in DVD American you can find some videos.
It's very Gothic, there is good make-up type "Buffy" and far very entertained, with a surprising end.
Sangre Eterna is set in Chile where three Goth friends M (Juan Pablo Ogalde), Elizabeth (Patricia López) & Martin (Claudio Espinoza) are heavily into a Vampire role-playing game, a bit like Dungeons & Dragons.
Meanwhile high school student Carmila (Blance Lewin) has to interview an 'interesting' person for a class project, for some reason she ask's M if he will be her interviewee.
M introduces Carmila to the Vampire role-playing game & they, erm, play it.
Then, while at a party, M believes that the host Dahmer (Carlos Borquez) is a real life Vampire & is trying to steal his friends away from him...Known to English audiences as Eternal Blood this Chilean production was co-written & directed by Jorge Olguín & one has to say that I thought it was crap & it's as simple & straight forward as that.
The script by Olguín & Carolina García is a complete mess, it tries to do something a little bit different but as a near two hour feature film it is incredibly painful to sit through in one go.
While watching this it felt like it lasted two days rather than two hours.
The character's are awful, the dialogue is awful & I am not sure what the film was trying to do or who it was trying to appeal to.
The story is a total mess, there are two horrible, horrible twists in Sangre Eterna which left me both frustrated & annoyed.
The twists also have the unwanted consequence of ruining everything that has gone before, the events of Sangre Eterna is either down to a lunar eclipse, Goth Vampire role-playing freaks, drugs, hallucinations, parental neglect or all of the above!
You can take your pick because the film never explains itself or gives any real motivation or reason for anything that happens.
Then there's the final twist ending in which a supposedly dead person open their eyes which again just contradicts everything, & I mean everything that has gone before including a big twist mere minutes before.
This film is a really boring mess that will leave most sane people frustrated, irritated, annoyed & if they are lucky asleep.Director Olguín does nothing special, the film is so tedious, about thirty or forty minutes too long & doesn't make any sense.
Seriously if you sit down & think about it, consider all the twists & Sangre Eterna falls apart as it simply doesn't make any sort of sense.
Forget about any gore, there's a decent ripped-off head in a fantasy sequence but nothing else & the lack of horror, scares & atmosphere kills the film deader than a stone.
It's some sort of horrible cross between a teen Goth soap opera & a horror film.
Even the Chilean locations aren't used to any great effect.With a supposed budget of about $25,000 the makers of Sangre Eterna were obviously working on a low budget which accounts for the lack of action, horror, special effects or gore but it's still no excuse for such a poor script & such a bad film.
Shot in Spanish Sangre Eterna was dubbed into English, very badly.
In fact I haven't seen such a bad dub job on a film since they heyday of the Italian gore film during the late 70's & early 80's which is saying something.Sangre Eterna is a terrible film, if you like watching low budget boring horrible poorly scripted confusing messes then by all means give it a go.
If you are looking for an entertaining horror film with some good dramatic incident, a story that makes sense & doesn't bore you to death then avoid Sangre Eterna at all costs..
Bunch of Goth kids make a fraudulent non-movie.
*SPOILER ALERT* *SPOILER ALERT*I waited 100 minutes for this movie to start and it never did.
There should be a flashing warning sign on the front of the video box: WARNING: THIS IS NOT A HORROR MOVIE!
Since there isn't I'll warn you now: THIS IS NOT A HORROR MOVIE!
Oh sure, there are two bad beasties on the cover looking all blood thirsty.
There were some interesting scenes at the beginning which seemed to be building up to something.
The Goth kids are playing their vampire role-playing game and priests are wielding shotguns.
Anything that was remotely interesting in this movie was all in someone's imagination.
The imagination of drug taking Goth losers.
I deliberately avoided renting a similar straight to video movie called "Vampire Clan" because I knew the "twist" to the story.
I thought this movie was going to dip over into the horror genre.
Waste of time, energy and space.Screw this movie and all it stands for..
Goth losers play an RPG and become vampires along the way in this stylish yet bad, foreign horror film..
(Note: This review is based on the English-dubbed VHS version of the film.)Pros: Has a decent budget for a B-grade horror movie; the dubbed-over voices are decentCons: Lame acting; lame special effects; painfully bad senseless violence; the story disappears about an hour into the filmPlot summary(WARNING: MINOR SPOILERS!): Eternal Blood is a movie about a girl named Carmilla, a college student studying journalism.
She befriends a group of Gothic students who are playing a role-playing game named after the film.
She becomes interested in the game through M, the leader of the group she met in her class.
During a strange party at an abandoned house, the group meets Dahmer(What a name, LOL!), a weird guy that introduces them to vampiric rituals.
M realizes that Dahmer and his thugs are vampires that are changing his friends into vampires, and it's up to M to use ancient texts as a way make tham human again before it's too late.Review: Compared to The Zombie Chronicles and Frost: Portrait of a Vampire, Eternal Blood is Academy Award winner.
Seriously, this movie is a waste of money.
Too bad the writer of this movie didn't sit down and make a decent script.
EB actually LOST its story about a hour into the film.
After that, it seemed like the director just made stuff up as the movie went along.
If you like gore, Goth, vampires with HORRIBLE hairlstyles, and gun-toting preists, then this movie is for you.