Vampires
Director: John Carpenter
Starring: James Woods, Sheryl Lee, Daniel Baldwin, Thomas Ian Griffith,Maximilian Schell
The movie has a certain mordant humor, and some macho dialogue that's funny. Woods manfully keeps a straight face through goofy situations where many another actor would have signaled us with a wink. But the movie is not scary, and the plot is just one gory showdown after another.
The lead actors on both sides of the vampire divide are all strong personalities.
James Woods adds another hateful, embittered creep to his gallery of losers, neurotics and junkyard dogs with vampire slayer Jack Crow.
The goons themselves, though, look rather chic, flying through the air in Galliano-goes-to-hell garments straight out of Vampire Vogue.
For all the exploding gore, graphic eviscerations and combustible corpses, it's not shocking, not sexy and not scary.
Best Actor
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films (1999)
Other Media
Bram Stoker Awards (1999)
Best Movie
International Horror Guild (1999)
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