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Eternal
Regent Releasing
MPAA RATING: Not Rated
Starring
Sarah Manninen,
Caroline Néron,
Victoria Sanchez,
Conrad Pla,
Ilona Elkin,
Nick Baillie,
Luke Bélanger,
and
Liane Balaban
While searching for his missing wife, Detective Raymond Pope happens upon the estate of the mysterious Elizabeth Kane. Unbeknownst to him, it is believed that Elizabeth is the reincarnation of a vampire who, four centuries ago, killed 650 women and bathed in their blood to gain the gift of eternal life. While Pope investigates deeper into Elizabeth's past, he neglects to see how his searching could be the end to him and those he loves. (Regent Releasing)
| GENRE(S): |
Foreign
|
Mystery
|
Suspense/Thriller
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Wilhelm Liebenberg
Federico Sanchez
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Wilhelm Liebenberg
Federico Sanchez
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: October 18, 2005
Theatrical: August 26, 2005
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| RUNNING TIME: |
107 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
Canada |

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70
Film Threat
Jeremy Knox
Much of the film rests on the shoulders of Conrad Pla who plays Raymond Pope. He is the focus of the movie and proves himself an excellent leading man.

70
Variety
Dennis Harvey
A handsome package whose atmospherics outclass merely serviceable plot and character elements.

50
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Keith Phipps
There's nothing wrong with formulas when they work, but Eternal is neither scary nor particularly sexy.

50
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
Eternal isn't that bad. Actually, it is. But it's kind of fun, too, in a way only cheesy exploitation films can be fun.

50
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
That the acting is stilted and that the filmmakers and especially Pla take themselves so seriously serves to make Eternal deliriously silly camp fare.

50
The Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
Bram Stoker would be, well, horrified.

50
The New York Times
Jeannette Catsoulis
Lush, lurid and completely besotted with itself, Eternal is one of those movies normally found slinking around the ether of late-night cable television.

50
TV Guide
Ken Fox
The ending doesn't really work, and Pla tends to overplay what's already a larger-than-life character, but Neron is perfect as the striking and cucumber-cool countess.

50
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Fairly sexy and stylish. Alas, it's also quite silly and not especially scary.

50
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
It's impossible to overstate the silliness of all this, but it would still be a decent Halloween trick - if it were Halloween.

50
Slate
David Edelstein
Turns out to be semi-enjoyable, semi-tacky retelling/updating of the old Elizabeth Bathory legend.

40
Dallas Observer
Luke Y. Thompson
Eternal promises kink and delivers next to nothing.

30
LA Weekly
Mark Olsen
As the cop who finds himself in way over his head, kickboxer-turned-actor Conrad Pla turns in a performance of such staggering ineptitude that it almost (key word: almost) reaches a so-bad-it's-good, Plan 9 From Outer Space brilliance.

25
San Francisco Chronicle
G. Allen Johnson
Just plain bad.

20
Village Voice
Ben Kenigsberg
"It is a study of the psychopathologies of perversions," co-director Federico Sanchez says in the press notes for Eternal, which is certainly one way to rationalize a trashy lesbian vampire flick.


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