I am alwaqys looking for a good vampire movie, so the trailer for this movie excited me.It is different than the trailer leads youto beleive.The bulk ofthis is in some part due to one of the film's strengths in how it deviates from what you normally expect from a vampire movies as it takes a twist on the lore. However this twist is clearlyinfluenced by one of my favorite vampire book series Brian Lumley's "Necroscope", Granted the lore is on the surface based on the Irish legends of the Dearg-due.According to the robots of Google Gemini, Marco Van Belle claims it is influenced by Bram Stoker's Dracula, whichc is almost as funny as when Coheed & Cambria said they had never heard of Rush.
Sure I might have preferred a Necroscope movie, but this one works well enough. Itis a shame that this movie went straight to streaming services as it is a better movies than the critcally acclaimed "Sinners", which was just a ripoff of "From Dusk Til Dawn" and everm for all this movie's unacknowledged Lumely influence it's still more original than "Sinners". The only draw back to this movie is for it to be an Irish film it really triesto come across as an American film, and plays into a few Western casting tropes,which are not deal breakers.
The vampores use more of a psychological attack that takes mesmerism to a new level. I prfer the more animalistc predatory nature the vampires in "30 Days of Night' held , but this new approach, that I am not going to spoil for you is something fresh that successfully set this movie apart. The lore is well blended and the ending works for me even if this narative get's alittle shaky by the end in places. We know audiences hunger for vampire movies that are well made and not "Twilight" romances, which is why they fell for things like the Nosferatu remake and "Sinners', so here's hopiong this movie develops more of acult following as it is more deserving.
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