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Vampires: Out for Blood

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When loser cop (Kevin Dillon), is assigned to investigate the disappearance of a missing co-ed, he unwittingly bites off more than he can chew -literally- when the missing co-ed turns out to be a vampire fledgling.

Some elements of this film were cool. For instance, the vampire co-ed, and her friend, and the vampires henchmen were good-looking and well done. But some parts were just annoyingly bad. For instance: I hated the main hero. He was such a loser. I don't think he changed his t-shirt once during the entire film. He was such an alcoholic I was quite frankly surprised he didn't see vampires ALL the time. And the master vampire looked like a bad extra from Buffy.

One of the few things I DID like about the film was the ending...

Two stars for a sub-average vampire flick with a few good points. This film could've been saved with a better-written and more empathetic protagonist.

This is an OK movie on a bad day I have even called it lame. Having just seen the movie on SCI-FI this weekend made me revisit my way too hard opinion of this movie. Oh trust me it is still not a master work of vampire fiction to say the least but, I have seen much worse than this. Dracula 3000 springs immediately to mind. Compared to Dracula 3000, this Vampires - Out for Blood (Widescreen Edition) DVD is Oscar Worthy high art.

This vampire story has a well developed plot more than I can say about some really bad DVD's. I do not know how they managed it but ever one of the characters in this movie has a flakey aspect to their on screen persona that makes them feel unreal at best or slightly unhinged at worse. The fact that all the people in the DVD come across as slightly cracked bothered me at first because, it made the process of suspending logic to get into the movie more of a chore.

Seeing the movie this weekend taught me I was taking the movie too seriously. This movie is not one of those "Serious Vampire Thrillers". There is a very subtle well executed vein of comedy running throughout this movie for those sensitive enough to the human condition to detect it. Granted the weirdest humor in this movie is so slight it is barely discernable, it took me three viewings to catch the hidden humor in this film but it is for sure there.

Yes the cop hunting the vampires was an amazing lush. His ex-wife was played to ditzy California perfection from the very beginning of the film to its end. The king of the Vampires was a special effect that only the Irwin Allen super elastic bubble plastic monster designers guild could be proud of. I kind of liked the main character in the movie exactly because he was imperfect and sort of tragic in so many ways. The ending of this movie was particularly hilarious and I would not dare spoil it for you chaps here. Taken as a humorous but frightening flick this DVD deserves 3 to three and a half stars.

A more realistic king of the vampire's tighter more believable character development and in some cases slightly better writing would have made this a pretty good vampire movie. The core storyline was awesome it just was not carried out well as it could have been. All things considered it is NOT a bad DVD at all. Now that I have experienced some really bad Vampire movies I have revised my rating on this one to 3 well deserved stars. Is this the best vampire movie NO, but on a day when you just want to watch something mildly funny and scary this DVD fits the need to a T. I might be adding this DVD to my collection soon; it is way pricey for a merely average B-Movie but seeing how subtly funny this thing this past weekend has pushed me towards buying a copy before it goes out of print.

Best wishes to yawl from, WOLFY

VAMPIRES
OUT FOR BLOOD

The cover of this movie is great, plus the fact that it has Lance Henriksen written across the top of it also helps in making the sale. I bought this movie a while ago at a Hollywood Video expecting a pretty cool movie, I wasn't too disappointed. The film on looks alone promises a lot and only delivers on some, which makes it a decent movie. But hey Lance Henriksen wanted to do this movie so that says something, right?

The story is about a sleazy drunk detective who is stalking his ex wife, who happens to be a vampire expert and famous author. We start off with Hank telling a psychiatrist about what happened to him because apparently things didn't work out for him. From here he is put on a case to find a missing girl, who as you can guess is a vampire. He is lead to the feeding grounds of the vampires and is bitten by the leader, who looks like a mix of the Salem's lot type vampire and something out of Star Wars. Of course he tries to get his ex to help him and a lot of bad things start to happen to both of them from this point on.

Writer/Director/Producer Richard Brandes has crafted a pretty decent little independent horror film. In fact on the production side of things there is really nothing wrong with this film. Brandes obviously really put a lot of work into this film, and the score and camera work are really good especially for this type of film. Problems come from the acting side of this film, not all are bad but not all are good. Vanessa Angel in particular does not come off as completely believable in this film, in fact in scenes were she is supposed to be excited or scared she over sells it. Kenneth Colom is just annoying at the beginning of this movie, but gets a little better later in the film, in the hotel scene he is pretty funny actually. Kevin Dillon is real good in this film, but for the first 10 to 15 minutes his character is completely unlikable. Really it is after the vampire scenes were he is bitten do we start to like him. Lance Henriksen As usual is great as the police chief, he really pulls out a good performance in this little b movie.

This movie while not a classic does have it's moments, the ending is brilliant. And there is some tension that is built up real well at times, it's a pretty good movie. Over all I would say as far as these types of films go it is up there, check it out and go rent it.

After looking at some of the other reviews posted here, I wondered what do people really expect from a b-movie? B-movies are supposed to be fun and sometimes campy. But it seems some take things a little too seriously when it comes to a b-movie.

Being a vampire film, Vampires--Out For Blood immeadiately sets it boundaries around basic vampires lore...no relections, fear of the sun, stakes, etc. and proceeds into a typical tale of a guy mistakenly left alive after a vampire attack only to begin the transformation. There is nothing new in this movie, but it's all done with a sence of fun and energy. Lance Hendricksen turns in a very good preformance as the police captain.
Nothing ever really gets scary and it all seems to have been made tongue-in-cheek.

A fun b-movie romp that does just what a movie should do of this type: entertain

"Vampires-Out for Blood" is not a good vampire movie, and certainly not a good horror movie. Kevin Dillon stars as a Detective who gets bitten by a vampire. He tries to resist the onset of vampirism. His ex-wife tries to help him, but her agenda is obscure to say the least. Basically, Kevin Dillon's character, Hank, attempts to find the head-vampire to kill him so that he can go back to normal. "Out for Blood" is a pathetic attempt at a horror movie or a vampire movie in my opinion. First, there is nothing scary about this flick...PERIOD! Yeah, you do get some fairly graphic kills in this movie, but that's not enough to make a good horror movie. "Out for Blood" has no style and no substance. The vampires look VERY LAME in my opinion, and the acting was atrocious in this flick!! I like Lance Henrikson and he did fine in his performance...so did Kevin Dillon I thought, but after that, there was a bunch of garbage no-name actors that were absolutely horrible, especially the actress that played the ex-wife, Susan. Also, the actors that played the vampires were pathetic to say the least. Now don't get me wrong, as I said in the title, this movie is very amusing, but it's not scary or horrifying in the slightest. If you find this movie scary, you must be an extraordinary wuss.

I rented this movie and had a hard time sitting through to the end. The storyline was pretty lame and the acting was fair. It wasn't the worse vampire movie I have ever seen but I certainly wished I hadn't spent my money on it. There were so many inconsistencies throughout and I spent most of the movie focusing on them. I would recommend waiting until it came out on cable before watching it.

Oh, what this movie could have been. Despite all of its big efforts, the end-result is still an uninspiring stereotypical take on vampirism. Kevin Dillon (little bro of Matt) plays a down on his luck cop who one night encounters blood-sucking vampires. He of course has a hard time convincing his boss, but not his best-selling author of the fangs ex-wife who helps him face evil. No surprises, no scares, no talent (except for Lance Henriksen as the boss cop and Jodi Lyn O'Keefe as the party girl vampire) help make OUT FOR BLOOD almost a totally D.O.A. experience. The entire production fails to deliver one slight of originality. From the automatic-pilot script to the brain-dead performance of Vanessa Angel (the ex-wife) to the awful-looking creature effects. Yet OUT FOR BLOOD has a sleek direction that includes a well-choreographed carousal of vampires/mortals flesh in an abandoned building. Richard Brandes may still have a career as a director if he wisely picks out his next project and stays away from the writing credits.-----Martin Boucher

Why in gods name did someone give this 5 stars? Someone must not get out too much. Anyway, It wasn't a terrible horror movie either, these 1 star reviewers haven't been around the horror movie block long enough to see what a bad one really looks like. To get to the point, there are many problems with it: (1) You have 2 really good actors in the movie surrounded by a slew of bad actors. The contrast is so bad that it is laughable. (2) keeping in spirit of the unevenness, the regular vampires have good, to fair makeup jobs, while the master vampire has terrible makeup. Actually I should say a mask. He looks like yoda. (3) It has some gore in it. I gave it high ratings for that, but at the same time, the blood effects were generic, so I subtracted some points (4) Terrible ending, which I wont spoil, but its abrupt, and the movie is very vague about the origins of the vampires.
The summary: some T&A, some gore, some bad acting, some good acting, some good makeup, some bad masks, not too many memorable scenes, a movie to rent, and then forget about. Worth a rental (maybe)

There's been quite a few vampire movies realeased in the past few years. Some are good(Blade, John Carpenter's Vampires), some are bad(The Horror Within, American Vampire) but Vampires: Out for Blood falls right in the middle.
It's got a decent B movie cast(Kevin Dillon & Lance Henricksen being the standouts) and a fairly typical but serviceable plotline(burned out cop searching for missing teen runs afoul of a group of vampires). Unfortunately nothing makes this film rise above the mass of other vampire films out there.
If you're compelled to see every vampire movie available, then I doubt you'll be disappointed. If you're looking for a new horror classic... keep looking. You're not gonna find it here.

Okay, this is a B movie at best by terms of its budget and special effects but its not
half bad, the story was okay, but the real bonus of this movie is for fans of the show ENTOURAGE.
You could almost say this is a Johnny Drama movie for real lol as Kevin's character in this movie
is a LOT like his Entourage character, not to mention that he also hooks up with the delectable
Vanessa Angel as well! You could almost call this a lost Entourage episode called Johnny Drama's Vampires lol