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These things happen
nogodnomasters17 October 2017
Warning: Spoilers
Vampire Lucas (Rhys Howells) searches the netherworld for his lover Toby (Dan Briggs). Toby's sister Charlotte (Rebecca Eastwood) is a witch and together they battle the straight vampires lead by Lilith (Abigail Law-Briggs) at the Eden school with her side-kick Eve (Kit Diamond). Lilith plans on taking over the world by using the blood of Toby to make a hybrid super vampire because immortality and traveling at fast speeds isn't enough. Our good guys seek the wisdom of Hecate, also Lilith's sister (Julie Pickering) for help.

This acting was laughable as were the lines and the plot. Some of the film was in black and white and at one time they used CG blood. Demonic voice enhancers are always cheap and bad. Make-up wasn't bad, but the snarling made me laugh. I have seen better acting at high school plays and this film might be considered "so bad it is good" to some.

I did laugh when mom, whose son was turned into a vampire, went to the after-world has a daughter for a witch and now faces extinction at the hands of Lilith says,... "These things happen." Well, no actually the don't. But it was a funny line. Confusing plot. No introduction of characters (assumes you have seen the first obscure feature.) Guide: F-word. MM sex. No nudity
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8/10
Improving on the first
vtalphawolf22 April 2019
I gave the same generous star rating as I did on the first instalment Vampires: Brighter in Darkness. But I will say it was better than the first by way of better acting...marginally better. experience is a factor. This is a continuation of the Lucas/Toby story resolving the cliffhanger ending of the first film. There are more fights and the story of this one focuses on Lucas more than him and Toby's relationship. I'd have liked to see them share more screen time since it's their chemistry that sold me on the first film. We get another instalment of poor FX and half acting. In an effort to resolve the story it's not too hard to endure. After all that I am still curious to see if they do the third film. There is still one in the works. We'll see.
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