Vampires [DVD]

Great low budget British horror where the vampires don't sparkle and are back to being scary!

love it

Is it five couples come to a castle (Featherstone Castle in Northumberland) to take part in a well-paid medical experiment, or is it another van load of live drinks for vampires as home delivery directly to their door?This film is a mixed bag of good and bad, but I think that the one star reviews are a bit cruel and that it deserves fairer treatment. OK, the DVD cover is nothing like anything in the film: no deathly cloaked figure, no bats, and a lower profile and more workmanlike castle/institution than the sprawling mansion in the background. Also, the film is obviously a low budget affair with no familiar actors and colour so pallid as to be mistaken for black and white photography, especially earlier on. This is the single star stuff.On the other hand, the actors make a decent job out of a reasonably good plot, and that almost black and white look may be nostalgia for all those old black and while vampire/horror films we revere from many decades past. There is no wavy found-footage dodgy camerawork (thank goodness)and no other filters to spoil the atmosphere so that night scenes are shot in pitch dark and not misrepresented with "day for night" photography which is the ruination of many a good film when you have realised that those night scenes look a little paler because of being shot in broad daylight through filters. The music score works well too, so that the overall package is of an elimination haunted castle film with spooky happenings, a deadly dog and several vampires which grows into a frantic and quite scary horror bloodfest with rather tasty special effects. We do not get many British made vampire films set in England and this one comes out looking better than many bigger budget films have. Because one gets to care a little about the overmatched individual members of this dwindling group, claustrophobically fighting against great darkness and losing, one by one, it becomes a memorable film and well worthy of four stars. Enjoy!

Good but seen better

lame larp vampires

A group of people volunteer to take part in a medical trial, which takes place at a remote castle. The people running the trial are very odd and do not allow them any communication with the outside world. A mysterious little girl also appears to one of the volunteers. Predictable and forgettable.

good film

Great item thanks