Summer of Blood

October. 17,2014      
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5.4
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Lousy lover and egocentric Eric Sparrow is dumped by his girlfriend after rejecting her marital proposal. After a few failed dates his luck turns when a chance encounter with a vampire turns him into a sex god.

Onur Tukel as  Eric Sparrow
Dakota Goldhor as  Penelope
Dustin Guy Defa as  Gavin
Jason Selvig as  Jason
Alex Karpovsky as  Jamie

Reviews

Dynamixor
2014/10/17

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

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Glucedee
2014/10/18

It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

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BallWubba
2014/10/19

Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.

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Scarlet
2014/10/20

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

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UnderworldRocks
2014/10/21

Mr. Sparrow is a loser. He is more or less a sloppy, dirty, and extremely talkative and deranged version of Peter Jackson.But he is never boring. I can't remember the last time I laughed so hard watching a vampire movie. This one is excellent. I love the dark humor!There are two types of vampire movies I enjoy. One is dark and serious, like Underworld, and the other is humorous, like this one.Out of the 143 vampire movies I've seen, the following are very good humorous ones I recommend to fans of the genre:Love at first bite 1979 Vampire's kiss 1989 Dracula dead and loving it 1995 Hotel Transylvania 1-2 2012-2015 Vamps 2012 (featuring Sigourney Weaver) Bloodsucking bastards 2015They are all very good humorous vampyre movies.Summer of blood is a pleasant surprise to my collection. It is so exciting, so good and funny!I laughed hard upon hearing lines like "This is what you get for not getting your education..." I might recommend the movie to school dropouts in the future. :)

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GL84
2014/10/22

Never satisfied with his existence, a chubby, pessimistic loser soon finds everything turned upside down when he becomes a vampire only to realize not everything has changed for the better and tries to find a way of coping with the situation.For the most part this here was a big waste of time. This here mostly stems from the fact that we spend so much time with the main lead here that it soon becomes tiresome listening to such inane, pathetic drivel that is forced into this one. Being a self-centered, immature hipster who can't go more than five seconds without railing vitriol on anything and everything around him, from why he doesn't want to marry his girlfriend then trying to keep her when she shows interest in another person who genuinely likes her, being completely indifferent to his job or to the apartment where he lives or even to the dates he goes on with other women, it all basically ends in idiosyncratic rants designed to be some sort of genius look at the world but are instead pessimistic, ill- formed and completely debatable points that turn him into the most unlikable person in the world. Just by being quirky he thinks this is the coolest point ever, causing him to utilize this facet for the remainder of his screen-time that it just grows more and more pretentious as time goes on and there's nothing here that's all too enjoyable to sit through with such a self-absorbed and delusional figure that's meant to be a likable lead here. As an added chip against this, the endless complaining and posturing does nothing for the film's pace here which is so bland and languid that there's literally nothing on- screen for two-thirds of the movie, even after he's changed as he goes around in more of his delusion ranting about his change that despite hooking back up with the spurned dates he previously went on and managed to get them to sleep with him in that condition when he hasn't changed from what made them rightfully reject him to begin with is so inconceivable that it takes the viewer right out of the film and reminds us all of it being a vanity project where such a completely misguided, utterly worthless condescending jerk would be able to pull off what happens here which is played off as newfound confidence but isn't in the slightest bit true of anything other than pretentious nonsense. It's just so hard to get anything out of this that despite a few decent bloodletting scenes along the way as he tries to adapt to the change here, from the alleyway attack on the college student and the main sequence of him biting each of the dates one-by-one while sleeping with them gives this one some messy blood-letting from time-to-time here, but it's all mostly undone by the film's meager budget which restricts the vampire notion to simply his contact lenses as there's barely any fangs on display or other such powers featured here. On the whole this one was beyond worthless.Rated R: Graphic Language, Graphic Violence, Nudity and strong sexual scenes.

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Jack Hunter
2014/10/23

Normally I give 1/10 to majority of very low budget films because I believe that if you are going to do something, do it right, or just don't do it at all.This one gets 10/10. Writing is brilliant. Character development is exceptional. Story is just perfect.Main character has a personality that will rub a lot of people the wrong way, but that is because they have neither sense of humor nor understand that its masterful portrayal of what lot of guys out there are really like. Whether you ever see that side or not simply depends on how well do you know them. Just ask my friends and exes.And while this will obviously sound like overenthusiastic fake review, its as real as it gets. See this film, and if you did not like it, get better sense of humor.

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joelpotrykus
2014/10/24

Total auteur cinema, in the best, non-pretentious way possible. This is a film that never takes itself too seriously, yet throws down on some serious themes and ideas. A schlub who can't catch a break suddenly turns vampiric and kinda cool. Kinda. Not just Onur's performance, but every character, even the minors, are totally on it. They bounce off each other effortlessly. I'm normally bugged by neurotic characters, as they usually feel forced and rehearsed. Not Onur. His rhythms and surprisingly-apt observations come effortlessly, like he's abandoned the script for what he feels is true to the moment. It's honest to the core. Self-depricating and rude and hilarious. And there's blood and sex and internet dating. It's rough around the edges in the right ways. I have no idea how it was pulled off, but what feels like a colossal mess of ideas comes together so cohesively. It just clicks. It moves forward and doesn't really care if you can keep up. It may be the first film of the year that I really love.And really, we're all afraid of becoming Michael Douglas.

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