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Modern Vampires
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 1
EAN: 9786305588238
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
ISBN: 6305588236
Label: Lions Gate
Languages: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 SurroundSpanish (Subtitled),
Manufacturer: Lions Gate
MPN: 71160
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Pan & Scan
Publisher: Lions Gate
Release Date: October 19, 1999
Running Time: 95 minutes
Studio: Lions Gate
Theatrical Release Date: 1998
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Editorial Review:
The subversive, super-hip television show Buffy, the Vampire Slayer has changed the bloodsucking genre forever. Hilariously campy and self-aware, the show cleverly sends up every exhausted convention the vampire genre has to offer. It was only a matter of time before someone tried translating the same tone to the big screen (the Buffy film failed miserably before becoming a show). As written by Matthew Bright (Freeway) and directed by Richard Elfman (Forbidden Zone), the silly and seditious Modern Vampires tries a similar tongue-in-cheek approach, flipping the focus instead to the vampires. Sure, it's shameless, it's cheesy, but it's also much more entertaining than, say, the heavy-handed Blade. The filmmakers set the genre piece in Los Angeles, a city cynical and violent enough to allow vampires to roam without much notice. The Hollywood lifestyle has influenced these vampires, though, as they stage elaborate parties where nude humans are kept in cages and carted out for main courses ("Is he Italian? I was wanting Italian tonight!"), as well as feast on the likes of screenwriters, producers, and entertainment lawyers (talk about bloodsuckers). In terms of plot, not much is going on here. A very serious and driven Dr. Frederick Van Helsing (Rod Steiger) arrives in L.A., from Germany, in search of Dallas (Casper Van Dien of Starship Troopers), a vampire who turned his son 20 years ago. Needing a partner, Van Helsing puts out an ad and picks up a Crips gangster member named Time Bomb (Gabriel Casseus), creating perhaps the goofiest vampire-hunting tag team in film history. "Do you believe in vampires?" Van Helsing first asks his young partner. "As long as you're writing the checks, I'll take out anyone," he replies. Steiger is wonderfully over the top (think Donald Pleasance in any of the Halloween sequels), and Elfman fills his vampire cast with other notable charismatic character actors, including Kim Cattrall (Sex and the City), Natasha Gregson Wagner (humorous as a trailer-trash vamp), and Udo Kier. Straight to video doesn't get much better than this. --Dave McCoy
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - if you like trash, you gotta love it...
Well, now... this movie is not what you'd call a masterpiece. I once saw it some years ago in german language. As the tape was from our local video rental station, the quality was not exactly great. I enjoyed the movie immensly - it IS trash (despite some realy great actors), but I do like trash.
When I noticed there was a DVD available I couldn't resist in buying. It had something about a "Special Director's Cut" ananounced, but I hat to realise there was nothing new in this version. Maybe ... Read More
Rating: - Campy fun
Dracula is in modern day Los Angeles and is trying to control all the vampires living in the city. Campy fun with not much of a plot. It's funny to listen to the actors try to talk with their fake vampire fangs on. They all come across as lispy and ridiculous, although I'm not sure that was the intention. Good for a laugh.
Rating:  - Awesome!
This movie is absolutely hilarious! It's fun the whole way through! I make all my friends watch it. It's just a lot of fun.
Rating: - Warhol-esque - - Not for the tasteful, but has some good comedy
The first half was hilarious, and then went downhill. It is sort of a vampire soap opera, with shezbot for action and plenty of totally tasteless humor that I hated, strangely interspersed with some droll humor, which I REALLY enjoyed. Tell you what. If you like bad horror, you may well enjoy this. I did. If you enjoyed playing VTMB or Bloodrayne (games) you may enjoy this flick. I laughed my tookus off for the first half or so. If you are hoping for a good serious vampire movie, forget it. ... Read More
Rating:  - What were they thinking?
What the heck were they thinking when they made this movie? Were they trying to make a horror movie, a comedy movie, or an action movie? I couldn't tell, because it failed in every single one of those categories, and more. Even worse was the casting...I mean, sweet, lovely Eldin from 'Murphy Brown' as Count Dracula? And Mr Wick from 'Drew Carey' as an evil vampire? And Kim Catrall as a...actually, I don't know what she was, or where her accent was supposed to be from. Every accent in this was laughably ... Read More
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