This came via a long term spy, worried about their identity, so I will call him, Burke the top hat and cape wearing long toothed man about London. Doesn't necessarily mean he's from London, but he has been known to stumble in and out of fogbanks snarling and glaring at the camera at 18 frames per second. He's silent, but deadly, but only because his projector has no Latham Loop. He's seen John Carpenter's VAMPIRES! Says it's an "...awesome flick" Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, I want to see this baby now! Show me show me show me. By the way, how come Carpenter isn't with DIMENSION FILMS like Craven and Rodriguez? Hmmmm, food for thought.
I saw the movie at an early screening.
No spoilers here, just to say : You wanted action packed super thrills, an awesome flick by Carpenter. You got it ! His best since Big Trouble in Little China IMHO. A Carpenter heart beat score, the P.O.V. shots, no beautiful wide master shots, but many quick cuts edited verrrrryyy well, ala Desperado, wide, close, closer, Blam, blood, head flying, corpses cut out in two, shit, it blow from dusk till dawn away !
'Dialogue thrown from the actor's mouth of such gut wrenching coolness that you say it for years with that same raspy sound ?' Yes ! Wood is a little too foul mounthed IMHO, but you will love it. Full of gore, some funny scenes like the master vampire killing everybody at a party or the Vampires getting burned, the small budget can be felt sometimes, and the ending is a little disappointing (not enough gunfights, and the baddie [HARRY EDITED FOR YOUR OWN SANITY]).
The scenes of the Vampires coming out of the earth is spine chilling. The score is cool, the opening credits just spells "this is gonna be cool, not like my latest movies guys". In short, COOL COOL COOL COOL CARPENTER !!!
