A
mysterious artist named Mary (Christina
Ferrare) escapes from Los Angeles and
travels to Mexico where she also meets up
with another young American ex-patriot
named Ben Ryder (David Young) while
trying to find shelter from a rainstrom.
They fall in love with one another but
what he doesn't realise about Mary is her
hunger and lust for blood and kills
people wherever she goes, then drinks
their blood.
However her father (John Carradine) is
also on the search for Mary and plans to
kill her to top it all off. He also
feasts on people's blood.
The investigators can't firgure out these
deadly moments as they find the corpses
drained out of the victims across the
country.
We spot an impressive beginning on the
film with lead character Mary by finding shelter in a
thunderstorm and then starting her
conversation with Ben Ryder even
if it looked too madiocre it makes you
wonder where it's going to go from there.
We have a nice flashback sequence between Mary and supporting character Howard Miller during this moment when they
have a discussion about her painting
and then there's a good make out scene
with them which looks nice and relaxing
blending in perfectly with their conversation
and then bam! The death scene begins. However it doesn't look entertaining for any horror fan other than her putting some drug in that person's drink.
Theres a great shot on Ferrare running
towards a a fisherman
at a beach in which things looked good on her being friednly and generous offering him some coffee as this all looked good and natural. A nice scene on him
after drinking a cup of coffee as there's
a drug in it that he looked woozy and he
reacts like he really was getting
drugged and then there's great shots on Mary holding the fishing rod
staring at him to wait for him to pass
out.
Then we see her going in a rage trying
to kill him with a bowie knife and he
sways his fishing rod at her being so out
of it. Things looked good and intense.
We have a nice shot on both Mary and Ben making out and
undressing lying on a couch while the Man is dressed in black with a
flashlight looking around and then going
in for the kill on someone. However this moment doesn't look inspiring for any horror fan whatsoever.
We see a terrific shot with Mary acting emotionally sad and Greta tries to
comfort her and is touching her which
looked like a good lesbian moment. Also nicely focused camera shots on this as it draws you in as to what will happen next. Plus spotting the two of them acting affectionate as this moment looked nice and still.
We also see a nice and relaxing bathtub
scene by the two of them as the moments
looked very natural and you know the next
terrifying moment is going to happen.
Nice camera shots on a woman tripping out after she's in a
car with a maniac, falls out of the car
and then rolling down a hill. When the chase is on though it looked quite cheesy since we've seen all of this happen before.
Mary looked very good at being
restless in bed wanting blood and just
balls out when she wants to go out alone
trying to prevent anyone to follow her.
An excellent shot on a car driving
towards Mary and Ben on a
corner of a road painting artwork and the
car crashing through the painting nearly
hitting them. Things grow really intense when Ben goes into his vehicle trying to chase after this person. Later on we have a real effective camera
shot on the Man pointing
evilly at Mary. However at the same time this looked rather cheesy like the rest of the story so far.
We spot a real strong and powerful
discussion on Ben against
two officers questioning him about the
deaths. The scene looked terrific when they are at
him and then being at times physical with
him too. The moments looked quite intense and powerful leaving a nice psychological feel to this imagining if you were in this position.
Then we spot a mysterious moment when Ben and Mary are out on a drive and she offers him coffee as this makes you wonder if he will be drugged along with wondering as to what she will do to him as well.
We spot a pointless car chasing moments between the Man and one of the officers as things just don't seem to be going anywhere with any of this and an excuse for a time filler.
The most effective moment was with Mary and the Man when he confronts
her about what she will turn out to be in
the future. However this is nothing special since we've seen this in other horror flicks. As well as pointless struggling moments that involves the two of them as well as Ben which some of the moments don't make sense at all while watching on what goes on here.
Bottom line is that this is not a vampire film
although it almost makes you think of
one. It really doesn't explain why Mary
and her father drinks blood which seems
odd and pointless too. Apart from descent direction and a few
good performances this film bites the
dust and not at all scary either.
The acting is in average
but not terrible shape. Christina
Ferrare (Mary) seems to breeze through fine
as a young and lusty one and her hunger
for blood. She comes across as charming,
vicious, terrified and emotional. She
seems to do all of this quite well. She looked great going on in a rage in one of the scene's that we spot here. She was great at acting restless or freaking out too. At times when she's crying or getting emotional it doesn't pull off too well. Other times she was passable though.
David Young (Ben Ryder) isn't too bad himself
playing her boyfriend as he seems good
with his tough attitude. However, he seems a little too stiff at times and rough in his character. He had the right guy next door clean cut appeal which worked in well plus shows great aggrerssions and bringing his energy to a hype here. Does well reacting drugged as well as trying to stay awake in which this looked good and natural.
John Carradine (The Man) presented himself
truly creepy dressed in black and seems
to know his stuff in his role since he
often played these types. He shows a good ghostly presence as well as doing well with his gruff speaking explaining to his onscreen daughter as to what she will turn out to be. However he was at times off on his blocking when murdering someone.
Supporting actress Helena Rojo (Greta) really
came across well as a lustful lesbian
with her softlike attitude. She also does well by showing her sympathetic behavior along with showing off a good accent with her clear speaking in which this was all drawn in nicely by what is going on in her scene. She seemed to pull off her character nicely and had the most effective supporting role.
Arthur Hansel (Cosgrove) showed off a nice powerful behavior as a detective as he shows off a total obnoxious type of behavior with his aggressions as he portrayed a convincing asshole for sure and making his role totally realistic just rolling with it and bringing everything to a perfect hype on what he was talking about. Had for sure a good strong personality.
Christina
Ferrare dresses and undresses during
many moments when she is about to have a
sex or make out scene with her breasts
fully exposed
Supporting actress Helena Rojo
takes off her clothes before entering a
bathtub with her butt exposed.
There are many gruesome
bloody stabbings taking place especially
a shot on a neck with blood gushing out.
Tom
Mahler composes the music to this
film as he shows some nice low keyboard
playing for the dark moments and alot of
cheesy music that you would hear in the
killer octopus film Tentacles
too as that is not at all horror music. We hear some trumpet playing which had that common 70;s sounds. Plus we hear the add sparkling sound effects too which was catchy.
Plus, he also showed some nice flute
playing during a flashback moment of the
first victim trying to have a lustful
romance.
Tom also sang the theme song during
the opening credits which sounded nice even if it was a little bit bubblegum and quite dated. He was famous for singing back up vocals
for many 70's pop artits including The
Partridge Family's soundtrack
records.
Mary: If
I had a glass of wine I'd drink to that. |
