Night Junkies (2007)

In London, Vincent Monroe is a young man addicted in blood that wanders through the red light district looking for lonely people to satisfy his addiction, dropping their bodies in the ... See full summary »

Director:

Lawrence Pearce

Writer:

Lawrence Pearce

Stars:

Giles Alderson, Lucy Bowen, Beverley Eve

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Giles Alderson	...	Vincent Monroe
Lucy Bowen	...	Stella
Beverley Eve	...	Party Girl
Matt Tully	...	Tattooed Man
Katia Winter	...	Ruby Stone
Jonny Coyne	...	Maxi (as Jonathan Coyne)
Daniel Kobbina	...	Leroy
Lauren Adams	...	Sultry
René Zagger	...	Psycho
Philip Simon	...	Stunned Nerd (as Phillip Simon)
Mark Joseph	...	Shady
Sasha Jackson	...	Sabrina
Vass Anderson	...	The Grey Man
Portia Booroff	...	Business Woman
Jay Brown	...	Dodgy

Storyline

In London, Vincent Monroe is a young man addicted in blood that wanders through the red light district looking for lonely people to satisfy his addiction, dropping their bodies in the Thames River. When the stripper Ruby Stone meets Vincent in a coffee shop after her show, they immediately fall in love with each other. They have one night stand and Vincent does not resist and bites Ruby's neck, freaking her out. Ruby leaves his apartment and returns to the night-club, where the psycho pimp that is obsessed on her harasses her. Vincent finds Ruby fainted in an alley and soon she discovers that Vincent has turned her into a vampire. Ruby convinces Vincent to stop drinking human blood and seek out a cure in Edinburgh. But the sadistic psycho, who has killed fifteen women, has discovered their address and is stalking Ruby.

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Plot Keywords:

stripper | sex | blood | violence | london england | 

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Genres:

Horror | Romance | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for strong sexuality/nudity, violence, language and drug content

Details

Official Sites:

Official site

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Release Date:

2007 (UK)

Filming Locations:

London, England, UK

Box Office

Budget:

£30,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Night Junkies, Scanner-Rhodes Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

90 min 98 min (DVD)

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Did You Know?

Connections

References A Clockwork Orange (1971)

User Reviews

Vampires behaving badly (unvampire-like).

Ahh, yes! -Another take on the vampire lore! I like the fact that the writer of this thing is trying to do something different with the vampire idea (as others have tried to do). The basic change always seems to involve removing some of the traditional qualities of the vampire that most of us are familiar with. In this instance, the writer went for broke and removed almost everything but the need for blood.

I'm none too happy with that.

The vampires in Night Junkies seem like ordinary junkies or ordinary people with a chemical addiction. There is nothing eerie or supernatural in their appearance. FOR GODSAKE, THEY DON'T EVEN HAVE FANGS! IMAGINE THAT! Practically speaking, having extended incisors makes taking blood more efficient; "neater" in fact, since you need only make 2 puncture holes in the right place. However, with regular "human" teeth it becomes a messier affair as it requires some tearing of flesh to get what you want. We could therefore say that these particular vampires are not as evolved as traditional vampires with there long sharp "practical" fangs.

I think the main reason for these untraditional vampires is that the writer (and most of the IMDb commentators) wants a fresh perspective and to "update" the vampire idea. I'm all for a fresh look at the vampire idea but I really believe you do a disservice to it when you take away the eeriness and creepiness of it; the "supernatural" or "otherworldly" flavor of it, if you will. This is a big part of what scares you. So why take it out by stripping the vampire of so much of their power? The vampires in this movie are horrific only in the sense that serial killers are. Nothing preternatural about them, just psycho. This is one reason I did not like the movie that much. But also, with these human-like vampires, the movie seemed more like a depressing slice of life of those who live on the fringes of society due to mental disorders, drug addiction, and prostitution. Everybody in this movie seemed depressingly dysfunctional. In fact this "vampire" movie comes off as a METAPHOR for drug addiction and the sad lives of those so addicted. So if you want to see this movie -BE WARNED! It is a drug addiction-type movie more than a "vampire" one.

I guess some writers feel that the vampire idea is more believable (and more interesting) if they are more human than they traditionally are. There may be some truth to this. But I say there has to be a way that the traditional vampire who is able to become a bat, a wolf, smoke, and able to climb sheer walls and hypnotize the hell out of you could still be interesting to today's more sophisticated audience. Love, Boloxxxi.