Rating: 7 out of 10, this is a really interesting take on vampire mythology. It was made before the current vampire craze and was one of Katherine Bigelow’s first movies before she achieved fame with The Hurt Locker. The vampires are shown as a tight knit, totally amoral family led by Henriksen and Goldstein. There’s none of the stake through the heart or crucifix stuff but they do catch fire in daylight. They are trying to initiate Pasdar who is not playing along. It is interesting that this was made shortly after Aliens and has three of the lead actors from that film together again in Paxton, Goldstein, and Henriksen. I really liked the interplay between these three actors and they carried the movie because Pasdar is just kind of there. I didn’t really like the climatic scenes because they don’t credit the century old vampires with a lot of common sense but the scenes when the “family” is together is worth the watch.
MVP: Goldstein demonstrates the same smoldering presence as Diamondback that she showed in Aliens
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