“Doctor Vampire” plays loose with the whole vampire mythos, often disposing of traditional concepts (eg the crucifix) instead opting for easier paths of comedic storytelling, which is fine, because it isn’t as if “Doctor Vampire” sets out it’s stall to be “true to the mythology”, it is here to crack a few jokes, throw in some innuendo and have a bombastic finale, all of which it does to varying degrees of success.
Let’s make something very clear, “Doctor Vampire” is…
80s excess through a veneer of budget Sci-Fi/Horror, New Line Pictures let loose with some of that Elm Street cash with an eye for another cash grab, and came oh so very close.
The Hidden is everything you wanted from such an 80s cop movie. An unknown out of town FBI Agent with a mysterious past, a killer who is able to elude arrest due to their ability to “disguise” themselves and a local cop wanting to get to the…
I’m starting to think that I either have much lower expectations than everyone else or have just become so immune to what others call “Cringe” from years of watching some of the very best trash cinema has to offer. I liked The Seed, I liked The Seed a lot, and here’s why…
A few years ago there was a a film called Head Count that had a rock solid set up but I felt dropped the ball at the end. It…
The much maligned cinema of Mainland China has struggled to find a foothold outside of its own country, in part due to quality and the enforced censorship of the CCP. Not that it matters so much when you have the largest populace on Earth (as of writing this), so catering to that inbuilt audience makes every sense. Sure people could point to the odd success, Zhang Yimou’s Seasons tetralogy or Diao Yanin’s Black Coal, Thin Ice, but for an industry…
