Vampire Journals
Videozone
Whoa boy, next on the ol’ agenda is Vampire Journals. I’ve definitely been looking forward to watching this based on the good reviews I’ve seen across the internet and I must say I was kind of let down.
First we are introduced to our main characters, Zachary (the ‘good’ vampire), Ash (the ‘bad’ vampire) and concert pianist (I’ll admit I just wanted to type pianist) Sofia. Ash becomes enamored with Sofia and wants to bring her on-board and in to his growing army of vampires, more appropriately..to be his mate and right-hand woman.
Of course this doesn’t sit well with other lady vampires in his crew and we face some extremely boring confrontations as a result of that inbetween a lot of padding, pointless dialouge and more padding.
That’s the problem with Vampire Journals. It doesn’t do a whole lot of anything except slowly plod along through a script that seems like a Subspecies reject. Given that the whole Subspecies deal kind of went down hill after Subspecies 3, you can imagine what we’re dealing with here.
Zachary has several chances to take Ash out and actually falls into Ash’s trap at one point and is held captive within his lair. The ending here is extremely anti-climactic and kinna sudden (as a lot of FM flicks seem to go down). It left a bad taste in my mouth.
I didn’t necessarily dislike the movie, but it certainly won’t find its place as one of my favorites or even something that I would watch again. With that said….
**1/2 out of 5.
