Kiekeboe: Het witte bloed (1992) User Reviews

Based on a popular Belgian Comic book

[Coventry · 4/10 · 24 July 2003]

Looks like I'm the first person to tell something about this title. No surprises here seeing that this film is based on a comic book that only comes out in my petite country Belgium. "Kiekeboe" is a popular and well written comic series by Merho. It handles about an average family getting involved in all kind of situations. Brought to us with a good amount of humor and sexy drawn females this is one of Belgium's best comics. "Het Witte Bloed" was number 36 in the series and it handles about the family being on vacation in a countryside caravan park. Next to this park lays a private clinic, where a sinister doctor tabs blood off his patients and replaces it by artificial white blood. The original blood of these patients is served to vampires in something that looks like a bar for bloodsuckers. Pretty original isn't it ? This sounds incredibly cheesy, and it is for a movie, but as a comic book story it's a nice little waste of time. In my opinion, they should have kept it a comic book. There isn't much difference though. The movie follows the book in every little detail. Every single action that is drawn in the book is acted by the characters in the film. That's not a good thing, I tell you. Some things look real nice on paper but on the screen it all seems overdone ! You can actually keep the book on your lap and follow the movie. Very few differences shall be seen. The cast contains a lot of great names. In Belgium that is. I'm sure no one will know the names of "Wim Opdebrouck" or "Gerd De Ley" here, but in Belgium television, these are all highly respected actors. They don't show it here though. The acting performances are like stiffs to be honest. That's probably because they had to follow the comic book line by line but still... I expect a little more from these actors. In fact the older characters in the story, the grandmother and grandfather give away the best performances. The daughter, Fanny, is supposed to be one of the prettiest girls alive. I assure you, the way she's drawn...WOW. But in "Het Witte Bloed"-the movie, she looks like a cheap tramp to put it in a cruel way. The blond wig is hilarious and I don't mean that in a good way. So, if you're from Belgium and you accidentally come across the little film, skip it and buy the comic book. Much better ! Also, a few years ago, another attempt has occurred to make a movie out of this series. "Misstoestanden" was an ever bigger disaster and caused a lot of production troubles. The writes, Merho, turned his back to the film crew.

Awful

[johnslegers · 1/10 · 24 August 2004]

This is probably one of the worst movies I've ever seen. If you are younger than 12, you may be able to appreciate it. If you are older than 12, then do not watch this movie unless you enjoy watching movies that are too bad to put in words or you are so bored you could enjoy watching a dog roll over for 10 hours straight.

Overacting is extreme, make-up and outfits are hilariously bad, decor is very poor, camera techniques are very poor, special effects are awful and it only lasts 1 hour.

I highly recommend reading the comic book this story originates from, instead of wasting your precious time on this movie.