Vampire movies are almost as bad as Zombie movies. Don’t get me wrong… I love a good vampire or zombie movie… it’s just that there are so damn many of them now. Seems like we get 2-3 of them (or a LOT more if you consider indies) and NONE of them have an original thought (the last original feeling Zombie movie I saw was Shaun of the Dead).
But like I said, Vampire movies are as bad as Zombie films in that regard… and the idea for this new set of films sounds interesting. The good folks at M&C give us this about a new Vampire trilogy:
Fox 2000 and Scott Free have bought up film rights to a trilogy of vampire books by Jordan Ainsley. The trilogy is said to be an post apocalyptic tale, set in 2016, that starts with cancer patients bitten by bats in South America suddenly recovering. This leads to the government performing secret test on inmates and other test subject in the hope finding a cure. Instead they create a horde of hungry and infectious vampires that threaten to overrun society. Meanwhile an orphan called Amy discovers that she has special powers related to the disaster.
The set up sounds really interesting to me. But can you really stretch a vampire movie like this one into a true trilogy on screen? It’s hard to intelligently answer that question since I clearly haven’t read the books (cause they’re not even out yet), but the scenario has me curious. My only other question is: “Is it possible to do movies like this WITHOUT basing it on evil government experiments”? That’s a hook that gets way too over used too.
im man movies love vampire plz go
i still think The Tale Of The Body Theif needs to get made. properly.
I really hate the direction most vampire movies are taking these days. More of these films need to take a Vampire Chronicles like direction and delve into the lives/back stories of Vampires not bent on the destruction of mankind (Interview with a Vampire). Something like that would make for such a more entertaining and interesting film than a one dimensional gore fest that does little but entertain on a very basic level. Maybe I’m alone in my opinions.
butt the goverments are evil. it’s not a cliche.
I do alot of writing short stories and the like in my spare time, and the first I ever wrote happened to be a vampire story. Ive always thought it would make for a really cool story and who knows, i’ve only seen a couple vampire films so maybe its been done but I had the story set in the crusades with a secret sect of the knights templar hunting down and destroying the vampire infection as it arose in the middle east, and the religous crusades being used to hide the exsistance of the vampires.
Anyways the movie sounds ok but lately with how many of these movies have been turning out it’ll probably be cheesy as hell.
Grindhouse, Fido, Slither, Land of the Dead, Shaun of the Dead, 28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later, Dawn of the Dead remake… I was under the impression that most recent zombie movies have all been pretty good, with the exception of Resident Evil and one or two others. Not very original, but definitely not bad. The TV episodes from Masters of Horror or the last South Park episode have also been quite decent. They also don’t seem so DAMN MANY too me. Am I missing something?
I have to agree that not much new has been injected into either theme, with the exception of a few indie/foreign releases. I personally love watching these movies, as they are very much like pizza, even when it’s bad, it’s still pizza.
But I find that sometimes a new direction isn’t neccesary, sometimes just a little injection of an interesting premise can be enough to keep a story from being too overdone (see 28 Days Later).
I am starting to get tired of everythign having to be “post-apocalyptic” though. I would like to see stories, in general, movie beyond “post-apocalyptic” to somewhen else.
This story seems to combine a whole mess of themes (Government Conspiracy Movie/Vampire[infection] Movie/Post-apocalyptic Movie/The Chosen One Movie). I would put this under the “C.B.C./C.B.C. (Could Be Crap / Could Be Cool)” pile.