This
sequel to the previous horror anthology
After Midnight sets around a funeral home
to the death of a woman named Andrea Dean
Van Scoyoc as the Reaper (Joel D.
Wynkoop) takes her book and tells some
creepy tales from his cauldron of evil
with his mistress on some real life evil
events.
First
up is the chapter titled The
Bronze Princess about a
man named Master Tolon (Warren Madden)
who tells a tale about vampires and
people taking over their land to rid them
but a bronze princess (Nancy Feliciano)
that Tolon was looking for was sent miles
away as he goes on a search for her by
trying to sense in his vision if she is
okay and safe from the head vampire.
Next
up is I Would Love to be
a Vampire of a woman
named Jenny (Laura Giglio) who is
fascinated at becoming a vampiress to
impress her boyfriend Jake (Johnny
Monotone) as all he thinks about is
sleeping with her and tries to find a way
if there are vampires. Finally she gets
her wish and gives her boyfriend the time
of his life.
In the
third chapter titled Tainted
Blood we have a
troubled man named Ray (Robert J. Olin)
who almost attempts suicide after he
claims that he was just bitten by a
vampire as he hates the lifestyle of
leading one but his wife Melinda (Toni
Draggon) who is a vampiress tries to
support him as much as she can.
However, he lied about being bitten as he
has tainted blood on the side of his neck
and is a secret agent who plans to
destroy vampires.
The
fourth one Kill Her
Arnold is about a
mentally ill man named Arnold who says he
has voices in his head and the voices
tell him to kill his girlfriend Debbie
and tells her she's a vampiress and will
breed with other people so that vampires
will take over the world unloess he puts
an end to her.
When I
first watched this film I knew it was
made on nothing and I was right as the
wraparound story was irritating yet looks
like a nice show to watch late quiet
night when you have nothing better to
watch.
The first
chapter The Bronze Princess
just shows mainly a person almost telling
a documentary story on the history of
vampires and a princess and it's a total
bore as it looks very improv with no
story idea. Not only that it was used on
a very old home video camera.
The
second chapter I Would Love to be
a Vampire improves much much
better as you know these were short films
made during different times when they had
more money but not alot.
This one was my favourite chapter of them
all as it's very clever and imaginative
which makes up for the bad quality of the
scenes. A nice one for a fun Halloween
night.
The third
chapter Tainted Blood is
my second favourite as it's romantic yet
shocking and sad in the end.
The last
one Kill Her Arnold was
very annoying yet the writing has all
sorts of tweists and turns to it which
you wonder what's going to happen but
again you can't wait for it to happen as
the plot it's irritating.
The
acting in the wraparound story is bloody
awful as narrators Joel
D. Wynkoop and M. Catherine
Holseybrook-Wynkoop are very
annoying and tiresome introducing each
chapter.
It gets worst with the
first chapter performed by lead actor Warren
Madden whom is not at all convincing
at playing a master as I nearly threw up.
The acting picks up with
the second one as we have a descent
performance by Laura Giglio with
her obsessions at wanting to become a
vampiress.
Actor Johnny Monotone who plays
her boyfriend however lacks with his
character.
We have a cameo by my co-hort on this
site Owen Keehnen as a news
reporter and dressed well for it.
The third one has the best
acting in this anthology as we both have
nice acting by both Robert J. Olin and
Toni Draggon both showing great
emotions towards one another.
Now the
last one flops but not as bad as the
first one because although Wynkoop
tries to bring character he's too over
the top as he always is in films and his
wife Holseybrook-Wynkoop shows
no character at all whatsoever as she
just says her lines.
However, Ed Walker Jr.who plays
a shrink seems to breeze through fine.
Nancy
Feliciano who plays the princess
takes off her top and her breasts are
fully revealed. Then she lies naked on
her bed.
In the Tainted
Blood chapter Robert J. Olin
takes off his clothes and there is a butt
shot of him while he hops in the shower.
Toni Draggon takes
off her top and is fully breasted. Then
she gets completely naked from top to
bottom when she walks into the bathroom
to join the shower scene. She shows off
her breasts towards her close to death
scene too.
This film was so cheap with
no budget there wasn't much gore in it at
all but during the intro to
Tainted Blood there are film
clips of vampire's having stakes driven
into their hearts and spitting out blood.
Then after Ray is bitten on the neck
blood trickles down his neck.
Green goo spits out of Melinda's mouth.
The
directing is very bland during the
wraparound story and overly long and
boring yet it has some entertaining
moments performed by Joel D. Wyndkoop.
The first
chapter The Bronze Princess
is incredibly lame as it is doesn't pick
up with the directing and it's totally
not a closed set and the camera shots are
terrible too.
The
second chapter I Want to be a
Vampire was more enjoyable as
there's nice moments during a dream
sequence with Laura Giglio
running in the woods and a reaper vampire
coming after her.
The direction on her being lustrous
looked okay too for it's no budget but
it's very watchable.
The third
one Tainted Blood is one
of the best efforts as the scenes between
Robert J. Olin and Toni
Draggon looks truly romantic and
have a nice lustful scene too.
Their battle between them looks great too
and Draggon's near death scene
is very sad and touching.
In the
final one Kill Her Arnold
the directing is supposed to be very
challenging but they miss by a longshot
as it's incredibly hokey between Wyndkoop
and M. Catherine
Holseybrook-Wynkoop.
But the hallucination scene's look
amusing and twisted.
We have
some lame synthesizer tones for the home
made video chapter The Bronze
Princess by artists like The
Crypt Keepers, Delta Time
and The John Matheny Band
However
for the second one we have a nice score
with the synthesizer sounds by Total
Sound
During Tainted
Blood, we have some interesting
guitar twanging and saxophine playing
along with some nice jazz music by Peter
John Ross.
We also
have a songtrack titled "Nekoda's
Theme" in the Kill Her
Arnold chapter composed by Stephan
Weismueller and Mike Johnson along
with the original music score by John
Matheny which sounds wicked.
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