Well, that's what I call it. What a waste of time.
"Hey, Earl...here's some swiss cheese and some bullets!" - Walter (Tremors)
Haha, you nailed it ;)
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"Lester Long never forgets a friend."-Lester--Clay Pigeons
Have to agree with you. I just watched "The Tribe" this morning, and I have to say: this is NOT a sequel, it's a loose remake. Same situation, same basic characters, no surprises, no twist. I barely tolerated the movie, keeping tabs on the timecode, waiting for the end, expecting the filmmakers to use the gimmick they used in the original -- that the "head vampire" is not who the viewer thinks. Or to have a twist where brother and sister end up joining the Tribe after all. But no such luck. Everything is predictable, by-the-numbers, Vampire Flicks 101 movie making. It goes somthing like this:
New people come to town (either young brother-sister team or young boyfriend-girlfriend duo). Unbeknownst to them (but knownst to us, since we've seen the prologue featuring a victim being killed by bloodsuckers), there are vampires in town (and, aware of their demographic, the moviemakers have made their nosferatu into the kind of total douchebag vampires that we have been annoyed by in movie after movie -- whooping, riding motorcycles around in circles, cursing like sailors and generally making asses out of themselves -- except for the head vamp, of course: he's suave, charismatic, and broodingly serious, keeping his asinine antics to a minimum). Head vamp takes an interest in hot leading girl, and tries turning her into a creature of the night. Brother/boyfriend teams up with Fearless Vampire Killer to save her. They dispatch various minions before confronting head vamp. They fight. Head vamp gets staked (either by FVK or girl, of course; our "hero" is being held by the throat up against a wall, seconds away from being slaughtered). Girl gets saved Just In The Nick Of Time. Girl and brother/boyfriend walk off into the sunset. Then, lame "Twist" ending where it turns out that all the vamps aren't dead after all.
This formula has been used in dozens, if not hundreds, of horror and monster movies since the creation of cinema itself -- and even before that, if you are an avid horror story reader.
All that having been said, this movie does have a few good points. The prologue, with Tom Savini as a bloodsucker, wasn't too bad (unfortunately, it set me up for a letdown: I thought maybe they were taking the "sequel" in a different direction than the first -- a "vampire war" movie, with one vamp clan fighting another; alas!). Corey Feldman as Edgar Frog never hams it up (IMO), his performance is solid. Autumn Reeser and Moneca Delain -- what can I say except rowrrrr! (Moneca is tragically underused, by the way.) And it was nice to see my man Corey Haim play Sam one last time (but they should've used Alternate Ending #2 as the official ending; again, just my opinion).
I guess "The Tribe" is a failed experiment with more valleys than hills. Too bad, because it could've been so much more. (One more set of parentheses, which this statement is encased by: It sure was funny to hear Angus Sutherland struggle with an American accent.)
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