Wolff rating: EVIL
Plot summary: Vampire in Brooklyn falls in love with wife of nephew of famous vampire hunter Van Helsing.
Biased, pithy comments: I try to tolerate art films. I'm not always in love with weird David Lynch stories or endless lingering shots with creepy music, but when they work they can be very beautiful. This film succeeds, now and then, at being beautiful (or at least interesting-looking). However, the languid pacing claws at you, the story seems to go nowhere other (better) vampire films haven't already been, and after an hour of drifting, weird camerawork (especially through the ``Pixelvision'' camera, which is a child's toy that the cinematographer fell in love with and wouldn't stop using despite my objections), you begin to wish the whole movie would just end. And by the time it does, we've lost interest in any of the characters. (You know you're in trouble when half of the cast has been possessed by vampires or otherwise ill and are required to act spacy and weird; as if we needed more spacy and weird in this film.) Although Van Helsing's role (played earnestly by Peter Fonda) had a few funny moments, director Almereyada has no sense of timing and the jokes, like much of the film, just hang on the screen like an pale, exsanguinated vampire victim.
How many times I have seen it: x1
Starring: Peter Fonda, Elina Lowensohn, Suzy Amis, Peter Fonda, Martin Donovan.
Directed by: Michael Almereyada