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Vampires
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Actor Thomas Ian Griffith wears some heavy make-up and fangs for the role of Valek, ’ a 600- year- old vampire in search omnipotence, in
the horror-action film ‘John Carpenter's Vampires.’
Valek (foreground), a vampire played by actor Thomas Ian Griffith, joins his blood-sucking cronies in a battle against a team of Vatican
mercenaries in a scene from‘John Carpenter’s Vampires.'
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er-with-the-heart-gold character,
Katrina, who was bitten by a vam
pire, uses her telepathic powers to
track Valek down.
At this point the film begins to
lose blood. The vampires finally
clash with Crow and his team. But
they are cartoonish and ridiculous,
more resembling kids in Halloween
costumes than anything frighten
ing. During the battle scenes, the
film focuses more on blood and
gore, losing any real dramatic ten
sion in the script.
But even these problems don’t
hobble the movie as much as the
poor writing that plagues it through
out. The screenplay — written by
John Carpenter, John Steakley, Don
Jakoby and Dan Mazur—is sluggish
and slow, weighted down by its pre
dictability.
Worse, the actors are caricatures
rather than real people. Woods, de
spite a bravada turn as the smarmy
Crow, is bogged down in an under
written role. It is only after three
quarters of the way through the film
that a reason is given for why Crow
is fighting these vampires at all.
Baldwin gives a nice performance
as the sympathetic sidekick, who,
predictably, falls for Katrina. And
Katrina (Lee) spends most of the
movie looking as though she would
rather be somewhere else.
As the movie dwindles to an ane
mic and incoherent conclusion,
movie-goers are left feeling the
same way.
Picks and Pans
"It had really good action. It didnl
have any slow parts. It wasn't the
greatest writing job, but I do like the
vampire genre"
—Jordan Lewis
“l enjoyed it overall. I found it a little
corny in parts. I liked the modern
format of these vampire movies."
— Gawaen Stern
“I didn’t like anything about it. It was
funny, but it wasn't supposed to be
funny."
— Rick Jackson
“tt was just like Carpenter’s other
movies: they begin interesting and
fall apart. Carpenter just goofs it up
at the end. They should bring in a re
lief director after the middle of his
movies."
—Pat Holmes
“It was sluggish and slow. The mid
dle part was cottage cheese, It
churns but nothing interesting hap
pens."
— Ooug Holmes
“It was OK. It was predictable, but
what movie isn't predictable?”
— AnnaSchmal
Director John Carpenter (foreground) instructs actor Thomas Ian Griffith in a short Vam
pire 101’ lesson during a filming break in his self-titled film about vampires.