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31 out of 36 people found the following review useful:
A pleasant surprise, 29 June 2007

Author: GirlAchromatism from United States

I must admit, when I first saw the description for this movie I thought it was going to be awful. Im glad I watched it anyway.

The creators of this film took a tired, cheesy plot and magically turned it into quality entertainment.

Keep in mind this is a rather low budget film with mostly unheard of actors, and despite all of this the film was quite enjoyable.

This isn't a horror film, or a comedy, or a romance, or a drama, or a thriller...its more a tasteful combination of all of these.

The plot develops slowly with perfect timing keeping you interested and tagging along with the main character throughout the film.

The originality and unpredictability I think are the qualities that stand out most with this film.

I may have given it a better rating if it weren't for the glaring over-acting by Jon Huertas (Javier) which was a severe distraction.

Over all though I would have to give my approval on this film (which is rare, as I am picky). I would recommend this film to anyone.

28 out of 31 people found the following review useful:
Pretty good flick., 26 June 2007

Author: c-i-z-ler from Netherlands

I just saw the screener and it's pretty good. It's not a high budget movie, but it's very tastefully done. It's not about the gore, it's not quite a thriller or a comedy. It's a mixture. Keeping it real and somewhat close to life. About the acting: There is one scene where they should have slapped the actor and make him do it again for screwing up his timing, but on the whole it's very entertaining. Sean Patrick Flanery did great, although you do get the sense of a cool guy playing a dork. But that's easily forgotten by the 'hey, it's the guy from the Boondock Saints' feeling. (or maybe that's just me) I think you'll enjoy this movie. It just might make you smile, or give you a kinky idea to try with your girlfriend... (just consider this part a joke, those fainthearted people amongst us)

Anyway: good flick, go watch it.

8 out of 8 people found the following review useful:
Lightweight but fun vampire flick with decent production values, 22 June 2008
Author: DVD_Connoisseur from England

"The Insatiable" is a well-made vampire comedy horror with a decent cast and direction. Sean Patrick Flanery plays Harry Balbo, a man who witnesses a horrific vampire killing during his visit to his local convenience store. Balbo becomes obsessed with tracking the beautiful female vampire (Charlotte Ayanna) down and is successful in imprisoning her in his basement.

Ayanna is a convincing screen siren and it's easy to see how Balbo becomes her unwitting helper. Michael Biehn plays a seasoned vampire hunter - it's a small role but he makes the most of it.

7 out of 10. The ending's a bit rushed but this is a reasonable horror comedy. Worthy of a rental.

6 out of 6 people found the following review useful:
Original Vampire Low-Budget Movie, 27 May 2012

Author: Claudio Carvalho from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

A homeless asks for food to the lonely Harry Balbo (Sean Patrick Flanery) while he is walking back home from his work at the American Flange company. Harry goes to a convenience store to buy a hot-dog for the beggar, but when he returns to the alley, he witnesses a sexy vampire attacking and beheading the man.

Harry becomes obsessed by the vampire and he contacts the vampire hunter Strickland (Michael Biehn) to help him to capture the gorgeous vampire. Harry builds a steel cage in the basement of his building and he succeeds in trapping the vampire in the cell. Harry falls in love with the vampire Tatiana (Charlotte Ayanna) and he tries to force her to drink rabbit blood instead of human blood. But Tatiana is insatiable for blood and sex and usually kills her lovers.

"The Insatiable" is an original vampire movie of extremely low-budget that works. The plot combines horror, drama, romance and comedy in right doses and the result is a film that worth watching. The unknown Charlotte Ayanna is really a very pretty woman and it is easy to understand why the solitary Harry falls in love with her. My vote is six.

Title (Brazil): "Insaciável Sede de Sangue" ("Insatiable Blood Thirst")

7 out of 8 people found the following review useful:
Pretty darn good for a B Movie, 7 December 2007

Author: bitlerisvj from United States

I LOVED it! It is indeed what I would call a B Movie and truly almost a Black Comedy. Those are my favorites. There used to be a plethora of them in the 50's and 60's. This one is modern and fits the empty hole perfectly. It almost reminded me of Little Shop of horrors. The acting was not bad and filmography was a lot better than most. I watched 2 Vampire movies in the last couple of days, RISE with Lucy Liu and this one, Insatiable. Although they were quite different and RISE was obviously big buck, my entertainment factor was MUCH better with Insatiable. RISE was OK, and I do love Lucy Liu, and the movie was worth watching, but, again, I did get more enjoyment with this one. I hope they make more like this.

7 out of 9 people found the following review useful:
Better Than Expected, 28 November 2007

Author: rcbridii from United States

This looked like one of those movies that would either be really good or really bad. Odds usually are in favor of really bad. This one surprised me by turning out "pretty good". Not terrible. Not great. The acting was good and the writing was good and I was happily surprised to see it wasn't one of those annoying erotic vampire stories with tons of nudity and Gothic crap but no plot. Rather it was a Clerks-style comedy with a vampire drama underneath. On the other hand, I thought it was a bit slow-moving. But overall it was worth my time. I was expecting it would be one of the rentals I'd regret, a high-risk gamble gone wrong... but it was probably the best of the movies I rented for that night (of course that isn't saying much).

7 out of 9 people found the following review useful:
A succubus you can't trust, 19 September 2007

Author: MichaelWeihn (mweihn@yahoo.com) from Las Vegas, NV

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Okay I watched the film & I'm not going to get real specific because I don't want to give away too much.

Pros: Cast. Lead by Sean Patrick Flanery whom I've liked since Powder. He's great in this playing an introverted Superintendent and his apartment complex. That's only his part time job though. His day job is at some sort of steel parts office/warehouse. Michael of course adds grit & depth as a paraplegic Vampire hunter. Brad Rowe has a small but memorable part as a convenience store clerk.

Plot. I like the direction of the storyline. I wasn't sure at first but it takes unexpected turns & with a pleasant surprise sort of ending-it rounds out things nicely. If you mesh Hellraiser, Bram Stoker's Dracula, and Grease 2, here's what you would have. (no it's not a musical) but there are elements from these 3 movies that I found here.

Cons: The size of Michael's role. After Michael joins the film at about 25 minutes-it seems he's going to have a huge part but doesn't. Although I enjoy the plot turns of the film-it kind of prevents Michael's part from being bigger.

Acting. Not real happy with the female vampire's acting or Harry's (Sean Patrick Flanery) mean co-worker. Although I think she improved as the movie developed, I don't think his got better.

All in all it was enjoyable, I'm happy with the result, and I'm glad I finally own it. It's not one of Michael's best nor is it one of his worst films. It would fall somewhere in the middle. As far as movies go it's a 10/10 because I'm biased but within only Michael's movies for a rating I'd say 6/10.

4 out of 4 people found the following review useful:
Give it a chance - I personally LOVED it!!!, 29 October 2008

Author: absinthechinadoll from United States

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The is only the second time I have bothered to post a comment on a movie here, although I am constantly prowling through IMDb for movie suggestions. So to make it clear - I collect vampire movies - all of them, regardless if they are horrible or not. I bought this movie for only two reasons:

1. Sean Patrick Flanery. I think I might have fallen in love with him when he was in Boondock Saints. His character in this movie is a FAR cry from one of the Boondock Saints...but he pulled it off and was convincing.

2. It's a vampire movie. And like I said, even if it's horrible, I'll still add it to my collection.

So besides those two points, I had no idea what I was buying. It turned out to be great!!! OK, it's definitely a B-movie budget, so don't go into it expecting tons of special effects. Javier, the co-worker, is annoying enough to throw the movie away. His character is the only reason I disliked the movie. However, he does get his in the end, which makes the whole thing worth it. And hey - what a nice change, that vampires don't get burned to a crisp by the sun in the end! Now THAT alone makes this movie worth it for me.

6 out of 8 people found the following review useful:
An absolute gem, 14 October 2007

Author: John Rankine (burglarbil@btopenworld.com) from Sutton, England

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This may be the best vampire film you see this year, forget about big budget big star adventure movies with a vampire theme, this is true to the legend, well produced and well acted with a small cast and probably a small budget but you'd never guess. Apart from being hot Charlotte Ayanna positively simmers as the vampire trapped in the cellar by a sad little metalwork salesman played superbly by Sean Patrick Flannery. Even the smaller parts are well cast and well acted, it shows that they cared about this movie even though they weren't famous names. So many smaller films suffer from poor acting by the actors who play the smaller parts but not here, the detective is believable and the cashier in the local store is a treat. I loved the part when Harry produces a money off coupon when buying the wherewithal to dispose of a body in the local hardware store, that's the attention to detail that shows this production team has a future, bring on the next movie!

2 out of 2 people found the following review useful:
Decent entry, if not overtly spectacular, 8 August 2008
Author: slayrrr666 (slayrrr666@yahoo.com) from Los Angeles, Ca

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"The Insatiable" is a rather fine and acceptable vampire film with a few flaws.

**SPOILERS**

Coming home from work, Harry Balbo, (Sean Patrick Flanery) witnesses a brutal crime going on, but no one will believe his story about a female vampire doing the killing. Becoming obsessed with solving the mystery, he learns how to deal with vampires from master slayer Strickland, (Michael Biehn) and is sent off into battle against Tatiana, (Charlotte Ayanna) the vampire they believe responsible. Finding her, he can't compel himself to kill her and he decides to bring her back to his house and traps her in a steel cage in his basement, keeping her alive by feeding and caring for her. As the relationship grows stronger, it soon draws others into the web who can ruin it for him, forcing him into a position he didn't want to be in.

The Good News: This wasn't all that bad of a vampire film. The fact that the few vampire action seen in here is so good is something to be commended. The opening segments, where she's on the loose in the city, is really fun and actually good. The attack in the alleyway is great, using the darkness to hide the majority of it and having a flashlight to show the good parts, and that leads to the leaping exit as a fun visual. The apartment attack is just as good, for the nudity and the pot-breaking sequence contribute greatly to the good times ahead. The foot chase at the end of it is actually a little tense, mainly once it gets to the apartment building and the trap is sprung. The scenes in between, talking about the different ways of dealing with the a vampire in the modern times as well as the clever way of doing this, all of which is rather fun and original. The main story here is also nice, being new and unique while also having something different about the genre, which is always a plus. The last big plus is the really bloody and messy kills, what few there are in the film. Because of the structure here, there's not a whole lot of opportunities but the ones who are here aren't bad. There's a couple of bitten necks, a nice decapitation, an arm ripped completely off, a stabbing in the chest and one is feasted upon, which are all nice to see in these kinds of films. These here are the film's good points.

The Bad News: There was a couple of flaws in this one. The main issue is that the film suffers from a considerable lack of vampire action. The whole second-half of the film is done in such a manner as to make the action almost non-existent, really reducing the film's enjoyment factor considerably. By basically showing just the vampire hanging around the basement doing nothing except for tempting the lead, which has really little excitement value at all. The endless scenes in the basement serve very little function because it's obvious that the attraction is there but nothing is done with it. They merely reinforce everything that is already known, and the dialog establishes little new points, making them feel quite dull and lifeless. These, as well as the scenes in the workplace constitute the film's second-half, to the point of near-exclusion of anything else, and it's a marked difference over what has happened in the beginning, throwing off a real sense of disappointment when compared to the first half. Even though there's very little which actually happened, it's still not all that spectacular. The last flaw is that there's very little in the way of actual vampire motifs at all. Beyond the neck-biting and sleeping during the day, it's quite hard to believe this is a vampire film at all. There's a discrepancy between the strength, as one scene shows her ripping a door off yet another shows it having a hard time bending steel bars. It could've used a little more to actually stay connected with the vampire mythology. These here are the film's few faults.

The Final Verdict: With a couple of nice moments and a couple worthwhile flaws that pull it down a bit but is still watchable. Give this a shot if you're into the genre or are in the mood for something different within the style, while those looking for more complete genre-experience should seek elsewhere.

Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language, Nudity, a mild sex scene and violence against animals

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