1998 · action · fantasy · horror
Vampires
Directed by John Carpenter1h 48m1998
The church enlists a team of vampire-hunters to hunt down and destroy a group of vampires searching for an ancient relic that will allow them to exist in sunlight.
Our read: Vampires (1998) reads as a heavy, breathless, surreal action · fantasy · horror entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme action / fantasy, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- surreal
- cold
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“You want Carpenter's snarling vampire-hunter action with zero sparkle or romance.”
Skip it tonight — You need prestige horror or can't stomach '90s B-movie gore and cheese.
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