![]() ![]() I did have some issues like how a simple blood transfusion from his father was able to cure Caleb of his vampire curse. I just like how it's paced and how it's put together. There's not as much blood and gore in this movie as one would expect, but what's there is really good and the make-up effects for the burns the vampires suffer, particularly Severen, during the climax, are excellent. Bill Paxton, to me, has never been great, there's something wooden about him, but I think he plays his role really well here. The cast, with the exception of Jenny Wright, is real strong filled with talented character actors/actresses as Lance Henriksen, Jenette Goldstein and Bill Paxton. The rest of the film, however, is really damn good. ![]() The problem is that the movie, for the most part, deals with Caleb finding a way to fit into this gang of vampires after he's bitten by Mae and not so much on his actual relationship with her, so that hurts the movie's romantic elements. Not what I would call good, but there were some scenes where she was fine and others where her delivery was just dreadful and she would just have this look like she was stoned or just about to fall asleep. It doesn't help that Jenny Wright wasn't particularly good here. Like there was nothing that I saw between them that led me to believe that they were madly in love with each other. It's just that, to me, Adrian Pasdar and Jenny Wright don't have that much chemistry with each other honestly. The romance, to me, is definitely the weakest of all these genres. It's a western, a family drama, a darkly comedic, a romance and, obviously, a horror movie all in one. It's also impressive to see how this film balances a variety of different genres. ![]() Again, I have no idea if this was the first movie to take this approach, but it was definitely ahead of its time in trying to change the perception of what the vampire mythology could be like if approached from outside the box. These vampires are a little more grimy and dirty, they behave like a gang more than anything else. Usually, for example Dracula, was, as described in the description for this film on this site, an elegant aristocrat. I think this might be, I wouldn't actually know, one of the first movies (along with Lost Boys, released two months before this one) to completely change the perception of vampires in films. I've been wanting to see this movie for a while and, finally, I got the chance to do so on Amazon Prime, through an add-on subscription for Starz. ![]()
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