This film is fried s hit


Managed to get a look at this and if I was on the cast/ crew I would definitely choose not to add this one! No one needs the credit that much, right? From the acting to the look, etc it was cheap, cheap, cheap. A low rent, throwaway cash-in on the Hammer name. I managed to out-act the cast just by pretending I liked it after being shown it. Really, really depressing that the Hammer name is being associated with this reeking turd and that a new generation of filmgoers will associate this with the once great horror studio.

What a travesty.

(I don't usually post much, so I won't be arguing the toss about my OPINION, just take it or leave it.)

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Right on brother.

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this does indeed look really terrible & reminds me alot of another awful load of shyte callled FUNNYMAN which was even more depressing as christopher lee decided to appear in it.



"what do you think of him?"
"i think he's a *beep* peasant!"



see you at the movies baby...

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Couldn't agree with you more. A real travesty. And a cheap cash-in.

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Well, I sat through the episodes now available online (all 15 of them). I felt if I was to make a judgement I should watch more.

All I can say is that I feel sorry for the director who clearly had little budget to work with a script that was written with no knowledge of how people talk at all. He does us the HD cameras quite well, mainly in the enclosed scenes and I'd love to see what he could do with a real budget and some good material to work with.

The acting varies from very good (a small handful of the cast, lead by Leslie Simpson, who steals the screen with little dialogue.) to absolutely dire (a rather larger handful lead by the guy playing Necro).

Everyone knows that I love swearing, but even I way lost count of the times the word *beep* was used, followed closely by *beep* The way it was used just turned some of the characters (The Crokers) into parodies of the drug dealers they were supposed to be. They did, however raise a laugh with the nunchuck scene.

It does start to pick up around episode 12, but then something happens that ruins it all. Why would vampires need gasmasks in a room full of nitrous...afterall they don't breath, do they? The gasmasks do look menacing, but I couldn't help thinking why. It would have been so easy to write in a handful of thralls that did, indeed, need gasmasks.

I have to stand by my guns and say that if this film had come out as just another low budget vamp flick it would have worked slightly better. That still wouldn't bring forgiveness for the rave aspect, that like the gasmasks just forces the entire idea to fall flat by being so out of date and out of touch with reality. I would have lost half the *beep* and all the *beep* also as the way they are delivered is just toe curling, doing this, however would have seriously affected the running time.

They're is nothing about it at all that makes me think, well done the new owners of Hammer. A shame, as I did have high hopes for this venture.

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The main problem is it doesnt work peisodically. There is on build up , no plot development in each episode its just ifve minutes of something happening. Thats not a sereis too me. There have been bits i really enjoyed... but some of the episodes are just dire and have been a waste of time watching.

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c'mon guys,

that's a little harsh. yea, it's no Lost Boys or Vampire Chronicles. and most of the acting is bad, but it's a vampire story. people love them. and hey, american girls love british boys, expecially the bad ones. i thought it was interesting 'cause it's on myspace. i'd definitely buy it when it comes to dvd. it's sad, but i'm a total vampire fan girl.

p.s. i loved the fact that Nec gets turned. it gives hope to all the nerdy, hearse-driving junkies... lol, sry i had to add that...

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fried s hit, hahaha I am wetting myself here. :D

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I cannot understand how the writer, director, producer, actors, backers and distributor could have possibly watched this mess and thought, "Yes, that is good enough to put my name to, it doesn't need any more work, THIS is the best it can be, let's release it forthwith."

The dialogue is just naked exposition, the acting is tragically bad, the camera work is sub-wedding video and the entire film just leaves me wondering how something like this can possibly get financing in the current economic climate.

There are decent actors and talented writers out there, just waiting for a break, but Hammer thinks that THIS is all the viewing public are worth.

Shame on you Hammer, shame on you.

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lol @ shame on you Hammer. And the rest of the kids here who obviously have no idea of Hammer history. These are supposed to be of B quality. Thats the Hammer trademark.

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Actually I contributed to a book on Hammer horror history a few years back, and this, in my opinion, is not Hammer, it's just a case of an entrepreneur buying up a recognisable company name and using it as cheap brand name recognition in order to flog sub-par product to a sadly often all too gullible public. At best it's Hammer 2.0, at worst it's nothing but a marketing smoke and mirrors act.

What some people forget is that Hammer wasn't just a name, it was an era of film with a certain unique style and mood and atmosphere all of it's own, and one that no one else could ever quite replicate, even back in the day when folks like Amicus would hire many of the notable Hammer contributors for their own Hammer-esque productions, some of which weren't bad actually, but none of which ever quite felt like a real Hammer film. Only Hammer could really do Hammer, as they were the only ones that seemed to have the secret ingredient that made a genre film a proper Hammer Films Production in both look and feel.

Again, Hammer wasn't merely a name, but was instead a legitimate creative force from a certain group of key contributors - actors, writers, directors, cinematographers, composers, set and costume designers, and producers - who in coming together had a kind of cinematic alchemy that often made for very memorable movie magic on little time and even less money. You take away those core people who made Hammer Hammer in the first place, and all you have left is a hollow name being used as a cynical marketing exercise to flog inferior crap that most people would have, justifiably, otherwise ignored.

I love Hammer, but these new films, good, bad, or indifferent, will never be Hammer, regardless of what logo gets put on the front of them, or what stunt casting they manage to reel in. Hammer films died at the end of the 70's, and Hammer television died around the mid 80's, and you know what? That's okay. It had it's rise and it's fall, it's successes and it's failures, and left a notable legacy. Hammer has nothing left to prove. Let it be remembered for what it contributed, and for it's place in cinema and genre history, not for what some twat who was able to buy the name then did with it in order to line his own pockets.

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Couldn't have said it better myself, Adec!

If you love Jesus 100%... keep it to yourselves, perverts!

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''And the rest of the kids here who obviously have no idea of Hammer history. These are supposed to be of B quality. Thats the Hammer trademark.''

Actually Hammer were A Quality, though made films with (reasonably) small budget - most were medium rather than low budget, however. The films usually felt and looked expensive, filled them with good actors and even some good effects. The sets and the costumes were top notch too. They were not Z quality like 'Beyond The Rave'.

I'd ''lol'' at his ''shame on you Hammer'' for a different reason; because the people who distributed this film are not Hammer, merely pretenders. Buying the back catalog and a name does not make them Hammer and if they wanted to be true successors, they should have made something more fitting.

If you love Jesus 100%... keep it to yourselves, perverts!

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