the audience applauded

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Bloodsuckers is set in the year 2210 where mankind has spread out into space, unfortunately most of space is occupied by various different breeds of blood sucking Vampires. That's where the likes of Captain Churchill (Joe Lando) & his crew come in, you see he leads a team of soldiers killing Vampires wherever they find them. A sort of intergalactic Vampire sanitation service if you can imagine such a thing. They relentlessly fight the good fight against alien Vampires for a crappy wage but at least they get job satisfaction...Retitled to Vampire Wars: Battle for the Universe when released on DVD this made-for-TV Canadian production was executive produced, written & directed by Matthew Hastings & I have to say I didn't think it was too bad, it certainly passed an hour & a half harmlessly enough if nothing else. The script mixes a bit of Aliens (1986), a touch of Starship Troopers (1997) with a smidgen of John Carpenter's Vampires (1998) & adds a dash of Blade (1998) & starts of very brightly with a surprisingly gory & fast moving opening twenty odd minutes, unfortunately the film can't really sustain this & never recaptures the heights of this opening sequence. My overwhelming problem with Bloodsuckers is that there is a definite lack of story here, the film just goes from one sub plot to another & never really settles down into one consistent story. For instance it starts out with the Vampire hunters hunting down some Vampires & you think this will be the common theme throughout the film but no, then there's a rescue mission on a planet where they are almost overrun by Vampires but nothing long lasting becomes of it, the film then introduces a new kind of parasitic worm like Vampire & again I thought this is what the film is going to be about but again it quickly forgets about it & shifts onto yet another different race of Vampires & yet another different planet. The whole film feels very fragmented & disjointed as a result. The character's are awful clichés & a few of them are very annoying especially the ugly Chinese girl Rosa who thinks she's 'hard' & is basically a Vasquez from Aliens rip-off only not as good.Director Hastings does alright, despite what people on the IMDb say I thought the special effects are surprisingly good with reasonably good looking CGI computer effects which aren't overused & I was pleased to see all the blood & gore effects were actually physical on set make-up effects. This has a pleasing amount of blood & gore, from bodies with legs ripped off, stakings, blood spurts, gory gunshot wounds, Vampire worms bursting out of people's chests & severed limbs Bloodsuckers is a pretty gory film & that's a good thing in my book. There are a few homages in here as well, in particular one set of Vampires are called Leatherfaces as in Leatherface from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre films while another race are know as the Voorhees which is obviously a nod to Jason Voorhees the zombie killer from the Friday the 13th films, or then again maybe it's just a coincidence?With a modest budget of about $1,700,000 Bloodsuckers is well made, the futuristic sets are pretty good & as already mentioned the effects are more than satisfactory. Shot in British Colombia in Canada. The acting isn't good, the usually brilliant Michael Ironside is only in for about 10 minutes & he gives a terrible performance but he's no worse than anyone else & he's got every right to be p*ssed off if this is the sort of crap he's been reduced to. A special mention for Leanne Adachi as Rosa who not only gives an awful performance but makes her character so irritating & unlikable you want her to die, horribly (the character that is, not the actress!).Bloodsuckers is a better film than I had any right to expect, it's not perfect but as a one off watch to pass the time it's reasonably good, gory fast moving fun. It 'borrows' heavily from other films but that gives it a certain familiarity.

Man has been to the farthest reaches of the earth and now he is traveling to new worlds. But with new worlds come ancient evils... the vampires of space. And not just a handful but entire tribes. In this film (which I saw as "Bloodsuckers" but I guess also goes as "Vampires Wars") we see what happens when the imperialist earthlings meet the imperialist vampires.I will make this review very short because it's undeserving of a good review. The best I can say for this film is it has a good cast of b-list and upcoming stars. Natassia Malthe was Quintana, and was far more attractive here than in "Bloodrayne 2". Michael Ironside is Muco, and is always a fan favorite (as I say, he's the poor man's Jack Nicholson). And we even get Carrie-Ann Fleming as "Damian's wife", who horror fans will now recognize as the eponymous Jenifer from Dario Argento's "Jenifer". So this movie, as bad as it is, isn't without some names attached... but the same can be said of Uwe Boll's work.The concept of the military tracking and killing vampires in space isn't necessarily a bad idea, but it easily falls into the realm of "cheese" and this film falls hard. The acting, especially from the vampires, is over the top and I just didn't find the explanations of their existence very convincing. Worst of all, the vampire tribes have the names "Voorhess" and "Leatherfaces". I understand this was supposed to be a clever reference for the horror fans, but it wasn't clever at all. It just sounded dumb and out of place (unlike the much more subtle references in James Gunn's "Slither", such as naming stores after lesser-known horror directors).That's all I want to say. If you can stand lots of cheese (on this day I couldn't and I'm from Wisconsin) and want to see average actors with poor costumes fight vampires in space (although "space" looks a lot like any other forest on earth) check this one out, if you can find it. I don't personally recommend this when you can watch other cheesy vampires films (Jon Carpenter's "Vampires") or other cheesy space movies. Or maybe even some good ones. But, hey, do your thing.

Man I must say when I saw the trailer I was excited. Futuristic soldiers, taking on bad ass Vampires led by genre vet Michael Ironside....In Space. I mean I wasn't expecting high art, but It looked like a potential B movie classic. This was no doubt a TV pilot, reedited some time later into a feature film, after it wasn't picked up. Alright I'll start with the films few good points, the action was competent for a lower budgeted film, and the CGI and locations used were passable. Now onto the bad, first off Michael Ironside was barley in this, and his performance here....well it was cheesy not in a good way. But as I said he wasn't in it much anyways, so I can't blame him. One thing that was really stupid, was the PETA type group for Vampires', no I'm not joking, it's the dumbest most unbelievable thing I've seen in along time, and it's taken seriously. Also this film commits one of the major B movie sins, it teases a lesbian scene, and doesn't deliver. Most of all what sinks this film is nothing really happens. Since it was meant to be a pilot the script is almost nonexistent and it doesn't have a regular ending. Even the main villains, only come in towards the end. If ever a movie needed to up the Sleaze and gore factor, it's Vampire Wars. In closing I will say the main crew on the spaceship, were all very capable actors and could very well put this mess behind them, and go on to bigger and better things. They just had nothing to work with here.

This is no Blade and Star wars cross, but being a movie thats whole budget would have been less then Darth Vader's wardrobe cost its pretty darn good.This is a B movie and I knew that when I bought it, it surpassed my expectations and gave me 90 or so minutes of amusement.The acting ranged from passable at worse to good. Micheal Ironsides was so over the top it was like watching live theater! Natassia Malthe is nice eye candy and had a great wardrobe( skin tight and sexy).The special effects were not that great, but they did not ever remove you from the movie by being super bad. Completely acceptable for a B movie.(well the hand puppet was a stretch but otherwise...) The gore was great, there was lots of it and it was a blast to watch.Someone mentioned a cross between Buffy and firefly( a good review) I agree only think with more edge and darker.This one is a winner for B movie buffs.