OLD BLOOD is another terrible indie vampire film, one which seems to be heavily influenced/a rip-off of TWILIGHT. This was made in Norwich, of all places. There's no plot at all, just endlessly laughable scenes of goths wandering around the streets and countryside in their elaborate garb. Terrible acting from the non-performers and lines overdubbed in an echoey studio render the whole thing ridiculous.
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Some vampire LARPers made a movie
continuumx1 May 2024
Well, I'm guessing that's what happened. The way the story lines are structured and some of the scenes play out just feels like a LARP. One of the scenes where some characters discuss their feeding preferences while we see some other characters talking in the background could easily have come from a LARP. A couple of characters even talk about going to LARP at one point. No specific World of Darkness-isms are mentioned. I don't know if that's because it takes place in a different setting or they are (probably wisely) avoiding anything specific to the World of Darkness IP.
This is not a terrible idea in principle. LARPing is a sort of acting. LARPers will usually have their own costumes so you don't need to worry about that. They have their own characters which they have practice portraying. There are some issues though. LARP story lines tend to be a bit incoherent as you have multiple groups of people all doing their own thing to some extent. The story here feels a bit like that. There are multiple story threads all kind of piled on top of each other.
The acting isn't the greatest but it's fine for a low budget indie movie. Day for night is hard to pull of on a low budget and it looks bad here. It's not the worst I have seen but it's not very convincing.
The worst thing about this movie is that it really doesn't have an ending. One of the plot threads is wrapped up but a lot of stuff is just left hanging.
My rating for this one is on my indie movie scale. If this were a studio movie with a budget of millions of dollars, my rating would be much harsher.
This is not a terrible idea in principle. LARPing is a sort of acting. LARPers will usually have their own costumes so you don't need to worry about that. They have their own characters which they have practice portraying. There are some issues though. LARP story lines tend to be a bit incoherent as you have multiple groups of people all doing their own thing to some extent. The story here feels a bit like that. There are multiple story threads all kind of piled on top of each other.
The acting isn't the greatest but it's fine for a low budget indie movie. Day for night is hard to pull of on a low budget and it looks bad here. It's not the worst I have seen but it's not very convincing.
The worst thing about this movie is that it really doesn't have an ending. One of the plot threads is wrapped up but a lot of stuff is just left hanging.
My rating for this one is on my indie movie scale. If this were a studio movie with a budget of millions of dollars, my rating would be much harsher.
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