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1.0 out of 5 stars
Garbage. Don't buy. Don't even rent., December 17, 2003
This review is from: Midnight Mass (DVD)
If someone invites you over to their house to watch this vampire movie and they will provide pizza and beer - all free and no cost to you - still hesitate about going. Some people are giving this movie good reviews; some say there is some good acting; another person loved the make-up - we must be watching different versions of this movie.... ACTING: There are no actors. Just local kids/friends/relatives who were asked "Do you want a part in my movie? We're going to film it all this weekend." NO ONE can act. SPECIAL EFFECTS: A few bright flashes of light - likely a deer jacking night light from some guys truck. MAKE-UP: You could do better with a "Hugo, Man of a THousand Faces" puppet. PLOT: OK - I'll give them some credit here. An initially good idea that vampires now outnumber humans. Has potential. There are a few sparkles such as humans who help the vampires being called Vichy. Also an interesting scene were a little girl acts like a lure for humans in order to see her mother again. But nothing makes up for the dumb, dumb situations that develop. For example, vampires control the night, so a young girl is getting a tatto over at the local peddlers' place. It's now night. There's a bang on the door. "Oh that must be my Dad come to walk me home." So she opens the door and voila - mindless vampires. Wouldn't someone have thought to put a viewing port in the door? If the night is so dangerous then why are you getting a tattoe in the first place? CHARACTERS: Who? For all the talk - do we really care if any of them survive? So just a bad movie. Run away for it. Wait for it to come to the $4.99 bin at Walmart. Should be there by June 2003 or so. Kevin
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
A fair attempt, July 14, 2003
This review is from: Midnight Mass (DVD)
This movie is low budgeted but starts off very well in the first few minutes where we follow through the device of news-clips the spread of a virus around the planet - only at the end do we learn that it's vampirism. Cut to a lonely beach-front in the post-apolocalypse. A girl sits having a smoke. A car pulls up and out come four goths. She shows them a cross but they're humans who work for a vampire priest. Here is where the plot begins to unwind. Why would someone, who's so aware as to arm herself with a cross would not be ready for their human slaves (except she has a can of mace!), and why, in such a dangerous world she was just sitting there by herself? There's also an attempt at a sub-plot as a washed-up alcaholic priest is recruited to battle a chief vampire, another priest and one-time pedophile. The plot faults only grow wider as the film progresses. There are some moderately interesting special FX and a small amount of skin as one of the goth girls makes love to a man as she slices him with a razor - this scene has no context in the story and I feel was added so as to show some boobs.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
MIDNIGHT MUSH, April 18, 2004
This review is from: Midnight Mass (DVD)
Shame on F. Paul Wilson for being involved with this mindless, garbage-level trash. No redeeming qualities..steer away from it....don't let the "vampire" plot lure you...this looks like a movie made by a bunch of drunks on less than shoestring budget. Yuck!
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