Directed by Gerardo de Leon
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Image Entertainment)
On one hand this film resorts to typical B-movie cliches: a bat on a wire, a hunchback, a midget, bad theremin music and a lead vampire who wears wraparound sunglasses and a cape. On the other hand, there is an imaginative use of color and tinting that transforms many scenes into poetic acid trips. There is also a story here, one of eternal love between the vampire and his lover, although it tends to get lost in the mix. Still, if one were to ignore the cliches mentioned above, what we have left is an evocative, beautiful film, and that is the one I prefer to remember.
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Image Entertainment)
On one hand this film resorts to typical B-movie cliches: a bat on a wire, a hunchback, a midget, bad theremin music and a lead vampire who wears wraparound sunglasses and a cape. On the other hand, there is an imaginative use of color and tinting that transforms many scenes into poetic acid trips. There is also a story here, one of eternal love between the vampire and his lover, although it tends to get lost in the mix. Still, if one were to ignore the cliches mentioned above, what we have left is an evocative, beautiful film, and that is the one I prefer to remember.
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