"Bloodsuckers" is a bit more original than most vampire movies.
**SPOILERS**
In the future, vampires have been found in every part of the galaxy. Determined a threat to humanity, a special team of hunters, lead by Captain Churchill, (Joe Lando) is ordered to track them down. The rest of the team, Roman, (Aaron Pearl) Damien, (Dominic Zamprogna) Rosa, (Leanne Adachi) and Quintana (Natassia Malthe) assist him in his trials. After tracking down a rogue vampire group, his group is given a rather dangerous assignment: answer a distress call regarding vampires from an unknown group of vampires. When they land, they find only one survivor of the attack, Fiona, (A.J. Cook) who is able to confirm the vampire group responsible. While trying to get out with her alive, they stumble into a trap. In the course of escaping, Churchill is killed and everyone gets different opinions about what happens. They get into a little argument about the mission, but is handled in a shaky truce. Knowing they have to work one more mission in order to get released, they agree to handle on of the most dangerous vampire groups in the universe.
The Good News: There was a bit of truly original thinking in this movie. There was some creative thought in having several different vampire groups and give each one their own special identity and special appearances. The names of them have to be heard to be believed, their appearances are frightening, and they each have several scenes to prove their menace is deserved. Besides their appearance, what really helps to make the vampires scarier is the damage they cause, or in other words, gore. This is far gorier than I thought it would be. One of the very first shots in the film is a corpse with both legs amputated in what was a grisly fashion. There is blood all over the table, and more dead bodies in the background. Plus, one of the more prominent vampire groups is shown to be more of a feeding group, rather than being interested in looking for blood. By having that being the more featured group, we get to see tons of blood fly forth by the victims as the group attacks. That is the majority of the gore, seeing more blood fly out as they attack than seeing severed limbs or wounds. There is some, but not as much as would be expected. We see one gutted corpse, another has an arm ripped off, and still others have more vicious bite marks by the vampires. There is also plenty of violence against the vampires themselves, with every death all marked by a larger blood splat flying out. It even had a pretty great jump at the beginning. While investigating one of the supposed corpses, one of the crew touches a very dead looking person, only to that person that scream forth to life and cry out. Done to death, but still effective.
The Bad News: Because of the small bit of creativity injected into it, this may cause vampire traditionalists to cry foul. It shows vampires as feeders, more interested in acquiring human flesh to feed on that in sucking their blood to acquire that hunger. It also features vampires as mindless killing machines, not at all the suave, smooth characters as Lestat and Dracula. For the old-school vampire fans, those will be more than enough to write this film off completely as not being a "true vampire" movie. In this day and age, it seems creativity is on the downward spiral, what with remakes being the preferred one in theaters, this one will most likely not receive the fair amount of praise that it deserves. It is a cheesy film that is full of rather corny scenes that really don't mean too much to the overall plot of the film, but is there more to keep the film running at an hour and a half. This is the main feeling you get with the film: it has three different plots to get it's length up, because the last one, which I assume is the main, is brought in at over an hour time and then resolved, so it doesn't stick around long enough to count as a true plot for the movie. Scenes were basically there to get a longer running length.
The Final Verdict: There is a lot to like about it and a lot to hate about it. Vampire fans may be put off by it, but it does have some good points to it that don't deserve to be automatically written off. Those into watching movies with some creativity and thought put into it will want to give this a look.
Rated R: Graphic Violence, some language, and suggested sex scene
**SPOILERS**
In the future, vampires have been found in every part of the galaxy. Determined a threat to humanity, a special team of hunters, lead by Captain Churchill, (Joe Lando) is ordered to track them down. The rest of the team, Roman, (Aaron Pearl) Damien, (Dominic Zamprogna) Rosa, (Leanne Adachi) and Quintana (Natassia Malthe) assist him in his trials. After tracking down a rogue vampire group, his group is given a rather dangerous assignment: answer a distress call regarding vampires from an unknown group of vampires. When they land, they find only one survivor of the attack, Fiona, (A.J. Cook) who is able to confirm the vampire group responsible. While trying to get out with her alive, they stumble into a trap. In the course of escaping, Churchill is killed and everyone gets different opinions about what happens. They get into a little argument about the mission, but is handled in a shaky truce. Knowing they have to work one more mission in order to get released, they agree to handle on of the most dangerous vampire groups in the universe.
The Good News: There was a bit of truly original thinking in this movie. There was some creative thought in having several different vampire groups and give each one their own special identity and special appearances. The names of them have to be heard to be believed, their appearances are frightening, and they each have several scenes to prove their menace is deserved. Besides their appearance, what really helps to make the vampires scarier is the damage they cause, or in other words, gore. This is far gorier than I thought it would be. One of the very first shots in the film is a corpse with both legs amputated in what was a grisly fashion. There is blood all over the table, and more dead bodies in the background. Plus, one of the more prominent vampire groups is shown to be more of a feeding group, rather than being interested in looking for blood. By having that being the more featured group, we get to see tons of blood fly forth by the victims as the group attacks. That is the majority of the gore, seeing more blood fly out as they attack than seeing severed limbs or wounds. There is some, but not as much as would be expected. We see one gutted corpse, another has an arm ripped off, and still others have more vicious bite marks by the vampires. There is also plenty of violence against the vampires themselves, with every death all marked by a larger blood splat flying out. It even had a pretty great jump at the beginning. While investigating one of the supposed corpses, one of the crew touches a very dead looking person, only to that person that scream forth to life and cry out. Done to death, but still effective.
The Bad News: Because of the small bit of creativity injected into it, this may cause vampire traditionalists to cry foul. It shows vampires as feeders, more interested in acquiring human flesh to feed on that in sucking their blood to acquire that hunger. It also features vampires as mindless killing machines, not at all the suave, smooth characters as Lestat and Dracula. For the old-school vampire fans, those will be more than enough to write this film off completely as not being a "true vampire" movie. In this day and age, it seems creativity is on the downward spiral, what with remakes being the preferred one in theaters, this one will most likely not receive the fair amount of praise that it deserves. It is a cheesy film that is full of rather corny scenes that really don't mean too much to the overall plot of the film, but is there more to keep the film running at an hour and a half. This is the main feeling you get with the film: it has three different plots to get it's length up, because the last one, which I assume is the main, is brought in at over an hour time and then resolved, so it doesn't stick around long enough to count as a true plot for the movie. Scenes were basically there to get a longer running length.
The Final Verdict: There is a lot to like about it and a lot to hate about it. Vampire fans may be put off by it, but it does have some good points to it that don't deserve to be automatically written off. Those into watching movies with some creativity and thought put into it will want to give this a look.
Rated R: Graphic Violence, some language, and suggested sex scene