Amazon.com video review:
This 1987 thriller was a predictable hit with the teen
audience it worked overtime to attract. Like most of director Joel
Schumacher's films, it's conspicuously designed to push the right
marketing and demographic buttons, and granted, there's some pretty
cool stuff going on here and there. Take Kiefer Sutherland, for
instance. In Stand by Me he played a memorable bully, but here
he goes one step further as a memorable bully vampire who leads
a tribe of teenage vampires on their nocturnal spree of bloodsucking
havoc. Jason Patric plays the new guy in town, who quickly attracts a
lovely girlfriend (Jami Gertz), only to find that she might be
recruiting him into the vampire fold. The movie gets sillier as it
goes along, and resorts to a routine action-movie showdown, but it's a
visual knockout (featuring great cinematography by Michael Chapman)
and boasts a cast that's eminently able (pardon the pun) to sink their
teeth into the best parts of an uneven screenplay. --Jeff
Shannon
