Vampire Journals (1997) (V)

User Rating:

5.5/10   

Director:

Ted Nicolaou

Writer:

Ted Nicolaou (writer)

Genre:

Horror

Tagline:

The hunt has begun...

Plot:

Avenging vampire stalks a king of the vampires in Eastern Europe, slaughters anyone who gets in his way.

Plot Keywords:

Vampire | Sword | Impalement | Bitten In The Throat | Severed Head

Cast

David Gunn	...	Zachery
Kirsten Cerre	...	Sofia
Starr Andreeff	...	Iris
Ilinca Goia	...	Cassandra (as Ilinka Goya)
Mihai Dinvale	...	Dimitri
Dan Condurache	...	Anton
Mihai Niculescu	...	Walter
Rodica Lupu	...	Rebecca
Floriela Grappini	...	Serena
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Constantin Barbulescu		(as Costica Barbulescu)
Maria Dimitrache-Caraman	...	Oracle
Jonathon Morris	...	Ash
Gelu Nitu	...	Police captain
Cosmin Sofron	...	Sophia's Friend

MPAA:

Rated R for strong horror violence and gore, and for nudity.

Runtime:

92 min | Mexico:82 min

Country:

Romania | USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Germany:16 | Australia:M | UK:18 (video premiere) | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Bucharest, Romania

Company:

Castel Film Romania

Quotes:

Club Door Man: Sorry, sir, it's a private club.
Zachery: That's quite all right, gentlemen, I'm a private man.

Movie Connections:

Spin off from Bloodstone: Subspecies II (1993) (V)

Surprising!

As a vampire movie fan, I recommend this movie to all of those goth and erotic vampire fans (the movie shows less flesh than "Embrace of the vampire" for example, see my comment about "Embrace of the vampire" and other vampire movies to judge better between this movies).

Quite, it's no vampire action flick and you will see not much nudity in the movie, but the movie has got some story to tell. You will watch a movie with lots of vampire mystery and magic with a good cast and a well chosen soundtrack which will take you on a brilliant 90 minute surreal ride to Prague.

Impressions:

--------------------

Overall: surreal, mysterios, erotic, fascinating, romantic

Gore/Splatter: no splatter, nice amount of "violence" and blood.

Nudity: some

Fangs: Jep, look nice (I write this because I hate those vampire movies which show no fangs), some nice blood sucking too

Cast: good actors, all unknown for what I know

Soundtrack: nice one, more the classic music type!

DVD: fullscreen, good picture, good sound, uncut

Who should not watch? I think it's not good for people that poke fun on the action vampire type (like "Blade"). There is no minor action in the movie. If you hate pianos and get the creeps by the words "classic music", "erotic horror" or "dialogue".

To judge better if you are not sure watching the film, I'll give you my favourite vampire flicks:

Action & gory vampire movies:

----------

Blade

John Carpenter's Vampires

Modern Vampires (tip!)



The more romantic movies:

----------

Bram Stoker's Dracula

Vampire Journals

Embrace of the vampire

The trash movies (I dig them a lot):

----------

From dusk til dawn2

From dusk til dawn1

From dusk til dawn3

Blood for Dracula (Andy Warhol movie with a young Udo Kier, very bloody and sarcastic, lots of gore and nudity)

Vampire Happening (my 60ies trash tip)

Don't forget the Hammer films!!!!

Please write me a line if you found my comment useful. Vampire movie fans are welcome =[