As if I can help it, I love this shit. Fortunately, nobody ever goes to our local theater unless it's a movie like 300 or Harry Potter, so I was the only person at the 10:20 showing.
Critics bitching about this movie being nothing more than people trying to escape vampires reminds me of people bitching about 1941 being nothing more than a slapstick comedy. It was a cool, no-frills little horror, and I'm glad I'm not the only person that was reminded of
Near Dark.
This is my favorite critic complaint, though.
Quote:
Somewhere in the gloom are two sheriffs (Josh Hartnett and Melissa George), who - in the laborious "let's do a back story" bit are said to be feuding lovers whose. . .
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How the fuck is ten minutes of backstory before an hour and fifty minutes of paranoid bloodletting
laborious?