The Age of Commercialism

Did you people see the same film I saw?

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

Well what to say really. I would start by saying I do watch a lot of black and white movies and even some slow ones I do enjoy. Of course horror movies from this time is rarely scary, so do not expect them to be.This movie I found moving very slow. I did not feel the story went anywhere. In my opinion there should have been cut half an hour of the running time at least. To be honest it is a miracle I did finish this one, but the last 20 minutes were entertaining. The movie in general do treat the vampire myth a bit differently than normal.I would only recommend this movie to vampire completionists.

This bored me so horribly I was unable to finish it. I generally do not like older films much - I just prefer the style of more modern (80s onward) film-making - and this was visually unpleasant, poorly written, acted, and directed. At times the dialogue was so ridiculously blunt and deadpan (especially from the main 'hero') it was laughable, but not adequately to make the film watchable. The music was also dreadful, the story entirely unoriginal, and there was almost no one pretty to look at (yes, I am shallow), nor any good scenery (not that much could appeal in grainy black and white).I very, very rarely am unable to finish films and I have an incredibly high tolerance for vampire flicks, but this was just dreadful.

Another south of the border terror brought to you by K Gordon Murray.This in fact is the sequel to The Bloody Vampire and actually is quite a bit better. This adds some truly hackneyed but eerie new things to the vampire lore.When the vampire is staked, all of his victims will rise up to seek blood.So we are treated to a very scary silent scene of vampires prowling about in the fog with huge stakes in their chest. You can actually watch this movie with little or no knowledge of The Bloody Vampire.The only returning characters are the Count and his butch assistant Frau Hildegard. Maybe it will come out on dvd like The Bloody Vampire has.It is the better of the two.

Though filmed on an obviously low-budget, with some almost humorous special effects, it remains a chilling atmospheric vampire story with true moments of horror. A definite cult classic. If possible, see it in the original Spanish version.