The cinematography is good, with clear colours and scenery. The music in the opening credits was awesome, as was the credit sequence with the blood / water clouds and the neon pink font. I loved that, and alone that put this higher than so much stuff I watched recently. The music throughout is excellent.
The movie was actually shot by someone who cared, and the director actually did a good job in my opinion since the film looks very stylish, day shots, night shots, inside and outside. There is a dramatic visual change from the night world such as the night club and seduction scene with the vampire compared to the daylight of the main character and her friends/etc.
However, this movie has a simple plot and really the script should have been better to achieve the story. For example they have the witness who is married to the vamp, in a straight jacket in a tiny interrogation room. He sees blood and lunges at the detective, then a guard shoots him in the face with an mp5. All of this seems extremely over the top, and I think a writer/director with more experience would have toned this down and set up the scene to be more realistic, if the end goal was the witness vampire to be killed before giving up any information I can think of literally 10 ways of doing this better.
I think what this movie needs to go to the next level is some better editing, it was a little choppy in places. Also some of the acting was off, and some of the dialogue was a little too expected/cliche from some characters. This movie offers nothing really that wasn't achieved in 'Vampires' from John Carpenter, for example, or the blade series of films. Sadly this comes across as a waste of time, see as written in other reviews.
Anyway I love the synthwave/retrowave theme across the whole picture as well as the stylish visuals and lighting; the nightclub scene with the vampire seducing the main character for example was sexy even if a little cheesy. The sound track was a big bonus.
5/10.
The movie was actually shot by someone who cared, and the director actually did a good job in my opinion since the film looks very stylish, day shots, night shots, inside and outside. There is a dramatic visual change from the night world such as the night club and seduction scene with the vampire compared to the daylight of the main character and her friends/etc.
However, this movie has a simple plot and really the script should have been better to achieve the story. For example they have the witness who is married to the vamp, in a straight jacket in a tiny interrogation room. He sees blood and lunges at the detective, then a guard shoots him in the face with an mp5. All of this seems extremely over the top, and I think a writer/director with more experience would have toned this down and set up the scene to be more realistic, if the end goal was the witness vampire to be killed before giving up any information I can think of literally 10 ways of doing this better.
I think what this movie needs to go to the next level is some better editing, it was a little choppy in places. Also some of the acting was off, and some of the dialogue was a little too expected/cliche from some characters. This movie offers nothing really that wasn't achieved in 'Vampires' from John Carpenter, for example, or the blade series of films. Sadly this comes across as a waste of time, see as written in other reviews.
Anyway I love the synthwave/retrowave theme across the whole picture as well as the stylish visuals and lighting; the nightclub scene with the vampire seducing the main character for example was sexy even if a little cheesy. The sound track was a big bonus.
5/10.