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Generally favorable reviews- based on 8 Ratings

  • Starring: Daniel Baldwin, James Woods
  • Summary: In the blood-chilling tradition of Halloween and Village of the Damned comes John Carpenter's unique vision of the ultimate killing machines, Vampires. (Sony)
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 19
  2. Negative: 4 out of 19
  1. The lead actors on both sides of the vampire divide are all strong personalities.
  2. 50
    The movie has a certain mordant humor, and some macho dialogue that's funny. Woods manfully keeps a straight face through goofy situations where many another actor would have signaled us with a wink. But the movie is not scary, and the plot is just one gory showdown after another.
  3. Reviewed by: Laura Miller
    30
    The sort of thing you can't believe anyone would want their name attached to.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 2
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 2
  3. Negative: 2 out of 2
  1. [Anonymous]
    3
    Just crap. Carpenter really lost it this time? The movie's a disaster.
  2. Terrible acting. Terrible Dialogue. Terrible story. Terrible effects/pyrotechnics. Terrible makeup. Terrible characters. This movie is a Turd-Sandwich.

    Only thing I enjoyed is how the hunters dispose of the vampires....by hooking them up to a truck and dragging them outside into the sunlight. I thought that was a clever idea and nice addition to the Vampire genre. The rest of the movie sucked. Pun intended.
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