Written and directed by Sebastian Gutierrez
Starring Lucy Liu, Michael Chiklis, James D’Arcy
Rated R
A couple of errant adaptations of Dracula aside, I think it’s safe to say that most vampire movies suck ass instead of blood. But in this warmed over and terminally bad subgenre, there are three towering classics. There’s FW Murnau’s silent German masterpiece Nosferatu, which seems less a film nowadays and more an intangible relic of old and superstitious times. Then there’s Kathryn Bigelow’s cult film Near Dark, which defied every vampire cliché and showed us what happens when bloodsuckers mated with white trash. And even after that, there’s Guillermo Del Toro’s Blade II, which depicted vampires as little more than animals and made them OBSCENELY hard to kill.
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