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I don't like vampire movies, nor do I like James Woods. What a coincidence, they're both in John Carpenter's Vampires, this weeks installment of the Out & About movie review. Hello again to everyone watching while drinking your night away, I'm Mike Stevens your movie man . In this movie, written and directed by guess who, John Carpenter, James Woods plays Jack Crow the vampire killer. Also in the movie is Daniel Baldwin, the chunky Baldwin brother, and Sheryl Lee, a fine looking woman who is bitten by the top vampire Valek, played by Thomas Ian Griffith. The story goes that Crow and his group of vampire killers are sponsored by the Catholic Church to seek out new vampires and to boldly go were no vampire killers have gone before. Seriously though Woods and Baldwin survive a massacre of their fellow team members and then must hunt down the top dog with a new padre played by Tim Guinee, a book worm priest fascinated by vampires. Anyway they hunt down the vampires while we learn a few new things about vampires that only exist in this movie and in the book Vampire$ by John Steakley, which the movie is based on. Though about vampires for some reason there is a lot of off-beat humor about erections, who would of guessed that vampires and boners go together, certainly not me. Other things about the movie: Yes there are a fair amount of special effects, some blood, fangs, and mean lookin bad asses. Hey I think I remember some nudity too, but unfortunately not much, but fortunately not full frontal nudity of James Woods. There actually is a plot to this movie, find the master vampire and kill him before he is able to roam the earth during daylight hours. We have a bit of love developing between Baldwin's character Tony and Lee's character Katrina the hooker. See Katrina bites Tony so both slowly become vampires, but not before he helps out is buddy Jack Crow. On a side note some religious types might not care for the movie because Crow keeps asking the priest about having wood. If you do have problem with that on religious grounds please have your head examined, because if you didn't get it from the title, ya know Vampires, this movie is fantasy since vampires don't actually exist. Again I have to get down from my soapbox. OK its finally time for me to wrap up this Out & About movie review of John Carpenter's Vampires, so with out further delay here comes the rating. I give it four couches out of the ten possible. Not a real good movie but not nearly as bad as Out of Sight. And speaking of Out of Sight, well actually George Clooney because he's in it, From Dusk Till Dawn is a much better Vampire movie than this one. So for the Out & About Movie Review I am Mike Stevens saying goodnight and tune in again some time.
Last updated: Thursday, March 20, 2008 02:45:26 AM |
