Fist of the Vampire - Lay off the presets, Len!

Published: Feb. 20, 2018, 12:46 a.m.

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A group of trash vampires waste their immortality so that they can focus on their location-rotating fight club that has less rules than Tyler Durden\'s. The only thing that can stop them - horrible karate, bullet dodging DEA agents, and post-production effects that are just the presets in Adobe Premiere. Yuck!

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Let\'s get out the disclaimer on this one - it\'s extremely budget and put together by people who have no experience in film, but hey! They got it done, right? They got their movie finished. So we\'ll give them that.

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The rest of the film though, good night. This is one to steer VERY far away from, fam. It\'s not necessarily the acting or the "story" or the horrendously bad karate that is the problem. It\'s the over-editing and after-effects (trademark Adobe), mixed in with the wall-to-wall Nu-Metal. Within 5 minutes, I would argue that 80% of our fandom would abort this within 5 minutes due to it\'s awful design.

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There is also a particular sex-scene that is less sexy than Tommy Wiseau\'s ass. It\'s vomit-inducing if you don\'t like watching ugly people do it. I\'m sure they are nice people, but holy hell....

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Now, there are some good things sprinkled here and there within. The karate is hilariously bad, the "plot" does move rapidly, and there\'s some pretty cringe-worthy acting. The plot is unfounded and easily puts these vampires in a bracket of cool below the cave-dwelling dirtballs in John Carpenter\'s Vampires.

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We have to give this one a do not. 

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