The city of New York can
be a nasty place especially with mobsters
but at night things get alot more
creepier as a certain mob happens to be a
bunch of vampires lead by Jimmy Fangs
(Joseph DeVito) and his aggressive
sidekick Joey the Butcher (Joshua Nelson)
who feasts on human blood and flesh as
well as turning others into vampires and
zombies by making them smoke their own
marijuana.
To top it all off a
couple of vampires not happy with one
another Marcel (J. Scott Green) and
Amy (Jocasta Bryan) are stranded in the
middle of a road after their vehicle
breaks down and are hungry for blood but
then finds a couple of people trying to
help them only to be attacked and one of
them killed the other one they kidnap by
the name of Anabelle (Shannon Moore) whom
they plan to save for another time but
she seems to form a friendship with Amy
leading to more things.
Meanwhile, there's a
vampiress who kills other vampires
the Narrator (Masha Sapron) who hunts
these vampires down and feasts on them as
well as other locals on her way.
I liked the titled
of this film but I was prepared for it to
be a no budgeter since I got this with
the collection of the Tomb of
Terrors since 95 percent of
those flicks were made on nothing and
having a terrible plot. However, this one
didn't seem too bad but there were some
leaky holes in it and bland moments too.
There's a beginning with a mafia doing
business that went bad and then they
become vampires attacking which didn't
look suspenseful enough since it looked
like the whole company seemed like
amateurs but again it was not bad for a
first try. There's also descriptions of
these characters flashing on the screen
which really seemed necessary for the
plot of this film since it seemed to be a
spoof on a mafia vampire type of flick.
Then there's a nice narration by a
vampiress who is alos a vampire hunter
which is icing on the cake for a plot
like this one. There's alot of mysterious
moments surrounding this character making
alot of the moments here fun to watch.
There's also great scene's that involves
a chase in the forest with a vampire and
a vampiress couple but yet this moment
was trying to look intense and disturbing
but everything about this moment looked
incredibly corny and cheesy by bboth
reasons. A.) It's close to no budget and
B.) The silly performances too.
Then there's a mafia discussion going bad
with some scumbag employees and one of
the mafia vampires is holding a bat next
to someone which looked suspenseful
wondering if he's gonna beat this person
to death and the results don't look
pretty at all which is a compli9ment to
everyone who created this piece.
But then we spot the three main mafia
vampire members paying a visit to the
reaper going to his house and I was
thinking this looks pretty corny and it
totally was since this guy was dressed in
a reaper uniform with a nagging
housewife. To top it off he was wearing
coloured socks and sportsgear shoes. I
was thinking to myself that this scene
didn't fit at all into the sotry in which
I was thinking to myself it seemed to be
mainly a horror in the beginning with
some dark comedic elements and now ti
seems like a totally whacky comedy. Yet,
there's some hilarious moments here. This
reaper wasn't really a reaper just an
image he was portraying as one of the
mafia members. However this took me a
while to figure that all out. The nagging
wife has a secret of her own too in the
end which brings back the horror.
The horror does come back together with
other vampires going out on a feast at
night to fill their hunger in which
there's disturbing moments with them
killing two parents and even one of them
feasts on a baby which is not for
everyone to watch. Yet the results on
this baby looks very fake. But to make up
for that there's many flashback sequences
that look disturbing which involves
mainly women who are bleeding to death
after being chewed up by vampires as
these scene's look like a grizzly piece
of art.
Then there's the final showdown with this
vampiress hunter against the mafia and
reaper guy too which looks exciting.
There are some boring scene's with a
victim forming a friendship with a
vampiress almost leading to a lesbian
love scnee which seems a bit confusing
since these two women were straight. So
there's good and bad moments drawn here.
Plus the movie sometimes got quite bland
since it was overly long and going around
in circles at times.
Bottom line is this film almost pays a
homage to those old school flicks as well
as spoofing shows like The
Sopranos but with vampires as
Mafia members. Plus these vampires can
live in daylight and use marijuana to
change others into vampires in which the
makers tried to be more original but
didn't go too far.
Watch this movie for the fun of it.
Alot of the acting was
quite rough and some of it melodramatic
too. J.
Scott Green (Marcel) seemed a bit
over the top in the beginning of his
performance as an aggressive vampire in
the film but he does indeed get into
character later on and knew on how to act
menacing and having a bad ass attitude
too. He shows some not so bad energy in
his role so I give him good credit for
really trying.
Masha Sapron (Narrator) was a nice
drawing card in the film as a vampiress
and hunter in which she does the job
perfectly with her real outrageous tough
as nails behavior and her violent
aggressions too. She put everything that
she got into this film and knew her craft
with this role. She also knew on how to
act lustful for blood too. Her looks were
a real bonus to top it all off.
Shannon Moore (Annabelle) however
was way too melodramatic and annoying in
her role as a kidnapped victim in the
flick as her screaming and crying was way
too over the top and not at all
believeable. I just wondered who the hell
fired this person? However, I've seen
worst however. She comes across well by
acting insecure in certain spots of her
scene's. A good pointer there.
Joseph DeVito (Jimmy Fangs) who
played a leader of the vampire mafia pack
seemed a bit wooden and mellodramatic at
times but yet he came across nicely with
his low voice and intimidating behavior.
He was okay in his role in which he does
his best by portraying a leader but yet
needed the odd improvement on this.
Joshua Nelson (Joey the Butcher)
looked like he was having too much fun by
playing a violent assistant in the flick
as his co-hort in which isn't necessarily
a bad thing but sometimes he wasn't
believeable but if you give him a
baseball bat then he really could come
across as a threat. So he knew how to
show some of this during certain moments
and I must give him some good credit for
this.
Sal
Verderame (Fat
Frankie) portrayed a nice godfather type
of mafia vampire member in which he
brings out some nice powerful moments
with his speaking as well as having some
good evil chuckles whenever someone gets
beaten up. Although his role wasn't
overly huge I found him to be the best
actor out of the whole cast.
Bit part actress Spike is lying on a bed as a gratititous naked
chick with some vampires biting at her
flesh with big boobs revealed and they
were big I'm not kidding you.
Many bodies are
bitten and chewed up
Guts are torn out and eaten
A woman pukes out her guts
Body pieces are eaten
Some dead bodies are lying on the ground
bloodied
Lots of bloodsheds and pools of blood
with dead bodies layed around
A baby is eaten
Hearts are torn out and eaten
Some machette's stabbed in the neck in
many scene's
Bloody stabbings
Slit throats
Bloodied bodies in various flashback
sequences
Spear in the ass
There's alot of
great low keyboard thumping music and
other types of neat effects with the dark
moments on these vampire's which sounds
very horror 80's like. It goes to show
this type of music can be effective for
todays standards. There's also some piano
playing and other music effects which
sometimes sounds effective and other
times not all composed by Marc Fratto and Frank Garfi.
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