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75Crude, rude, nasty fun.
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70The pleasures are modest but consistent in John Carpenter's Vampires, a part-Western, part-horror flick that doesn't aim too high but nails the range it occupies.
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70With a distinctively middle-aged zest, Carpenter retools even the hopeless cliche requiring action heroes to spout bad puns while dispatching bad guys; his eminently stylish movie proves that new blood can flow from an old vein.
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63The essential problem with the movie isn't that it's loud, violent, and gory, but that, before Carpenter ratchets up the tension in the final 35 minutes, it's not especially interesting.
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50The 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.
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50The lead actors on both sides of the vampire divide are all strong personalities.
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50James Woods adds another hateful, embittered creep to his gallery of losers, neurotics and junkyard dogs with vampire slayer Jack Crow.
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50It's interesting, though, to think of double-billing Woods' Crow with Pacino's Prince of Darkness from Devil's Advocate: Scenery-chewing never looked so good.
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50There's a surprising amount to relish about this gleefully self-conscious, disposable romp through horror's sexiest subgenre, mainly the film's grasp of its own terms.
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Scary or not, there's energy in the way Carpenter frames and cuts his movies, and there's energy to spare in Woods' performance.
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42The goons themselves, though, look rather chic, flying through the air in Galliano-goes-to-hell garments straight out of Vampire Vogue.
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40Carpenter oscillates between high horror and lowbrow camp, which is more unsettling than the scenes of decapitation and dismemberment, and drives a steak through the heart of Woods' fine performance in the process.
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40For all the exploding gore, graphic eviscerations and combustible corpses, it’s not shocking, not sexy and not scary.
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Profoundly disappointing--though Carpenter's score is, as usual, good fun.
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40A gorefest of epic proportions.
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30The sort of thing you can't believe anyone would want their name attached to.
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30Ridiculous without being awful enough to be hilarious.
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25It's just as well that John Carpenter makes horror movies, because here's a horrifying thought picture James Woods as an action hero. [30 October 1998, p. 44]
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25Anemic. [30 October 1998, p.8E]
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[Anonymous]3Just crap. Carpenter really lost it this time? The movie's a disaster.