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Why the low rating?

posted 11 years ago by eye-sea
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Only 6/10.

I think it's easily an 8/10.

And 15 years on it still gives me the shivers. Great film.

[–] MikePaul854 11 years ago

Average action movie. James Woods was horribly miscast here. Jack Crow (according to John Steakly's Vampire$) is huge, muscular, and young; three main points that Woods is not. Oddly enough, Daniel Baldwin was great as his sidekick.

[–] balthazar_bee 11 years ago

James Woods was horribly miscast here. Jack Crow (according to John Steakly's Vampire$) is huge, muscular, and young; three main points that Woods is not.

Be that as it may, a movie is not a book, and Woods is gloriously profane and wonderfully ornery as the cinematic Jack Crow. I think it's one of his best performances, and it sure didn't have to be -- a leather-jacketed vampire killer in a low budget John Carpenter movie? He could've phoned it in and no one would've complained.

[–] Ace_Sax 9 years ago

The thing is I don't think I would've liked this movie half as much if it didn't have James Woods being so....well....James Woods. His profanity laced anger-spewing performance was glorious from start to finish.

[–] azmodan673 11 years ago

Because people who have read the book know how badly they butchered it.

[–] Alex_de_Large_18 11 years ago

IDK. This movie is pretty kick-ass imo. 8/10 for me.

[–] AdmiralTugBenson 11 years ago

Yeah, I'd personally give it a 7.5 or 8. I don't know how much of that is nostalgia though. And it is a little dated, which adds some charm to it in my opinion. If I were to see it for the first time today I might not enjoy it as much. But I first saw it in the theater when I was a teenager, and when I bought my first DVD player when they first came out, one of my first DVDs was Vampires, so I'm a little biased.

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[–] romadiva 9 years ago

Needs more Sheryl Lee, so 7/10

An actress of her caliber, all they did was slap her around and didn't give her much to do, otherwise, I'd have given an 8/10.

[–] MikePaul854 11 years ago

My main complaint was their treatment of Katrina. Did they really have to keep smacking her around?

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[–] milosprole9 9 years ago

I agree, I gave it a 10/10 as an excellent movie. It should be between 7.1-7.6 ratings.

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