What’s it about:
A young man called
Toby joins forces with a group of teenagers after they return from a concert to
discover their parents have been murdered by a group of roaming vampires who
are travelling from town to town. They set out to track the vampires down and
destroy them once and for all. The whole thing is shot on Super 8 over the
course of 2 and half years and had a budget of $5000.
5 things to love:
1. The gore
is the main reason to watch this film. It isn’t perfect (at times it’s obvious
they haven’t mixed the fake blood right and it looks too pink and watery) but
they really go for it in terms of quantity. The interesting idea with the
vampires in this film is that they attack in groups and don’t bite necks, they
tear into victims and let blood spray everywhere. The film also ends in a
spectacular climax where a huge group of vampires get caught in the sunlight causing
them to melt and explode.
2. The
opening of the film is probably the best scene of the whole film. It’s a great
set up for a film. A guy covered in blood runs into a gas station and starts
raving about vampires to all the patrons inside. It’s tense, mysterious, fast-paced
and is a fantastic opening.
3. The movie
has a lot of low budget ingenuity. I was genuinely impressed that, given the
miniscule budget, they had a lot of outdoor scenes and a lengthy sequence
involving a guy wielding a chainsaw.
4. The film
has a really good pace and gets pretty intense in places. As I said, the budget
is tiny but there’s some well-directed sequences of people getting chased
through the streets at night by vampires.
5. In terms
of innovative ways of killing vampires I’ve never seen anything as genius as
the scene where Toby leads a group of vampires through a river and then turns
around and blesses the water!
1 thing it didn’t need:
Constant
metal score. Just my personal taste. I get that horror and metal seem to go
hand in hand but it hurt the atmosphere this film was trying to build up.
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