John Carpenter's Vampires (1998)
Director: John Carpenter
Jack Crow (James Woods) heads a team of vampire slayers, coming up against a master the likes of which he has never encountered before. A mess of a film, Carpenter's action horror keeps its audience awake with sheer volume and relentless ridiculousness. Creepy suspense is completely out; crazy profanity, carnage and inexplicable visual effects are in.
It's so over the top as to be utterly tongue-in-cheek (Woods is actually very funny), making it reasonably watchable, but overall you're left bemoaning the fact that over the course of that twenty or so years, Carpenter has fallen so far from the heights of such films as Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) and Halloween (1978).
Jack Crow (James Woods) heads a team of vampire slayers, coming up against a master the likes of which he has never encountered before. A mess of a film, Carpenter's action horror keeps its audience awake with sheer volume and relentless ridiculousness. Creepy suspense is completely out; crazy profanity, carnage and inexplicable visual effects are in.
It's so over the top as to be utterly tongue-in-cheek (Woods is actually very funny), making it reasonably watchable, but overall you're left bemoaning the fact that over the course of that twenty or so years, Carpenter has fallen so far from the heights of such films as Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) and Halloween (1978).
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