A somewhat exciting week for genre releases, we’re graced with a theatrical dip into horror with BLOOD: THE LAST VAMPIRE, and a few gems on DVD are also unveiled. THE UNBORN, showing off Odette Yustman’s smokin’ hot ass, NEAR DARK, trying to reel-in a few TWILIGHTers with a new cover, and the positive-buzzed DEAD WOOD.
BLOOD: THE LAST VAMPIRE
Rated: R for strong bloody stylized violence.
Starring : Gianna, Allison Miller, Masiela Lusha, Colin Salmon
Directed by Chris Nahon
Run Time: 1 hr. 29 min.
On the surface, Saya is a stunning 16-year old girl, but that youthful exterior hides the tormented soul of a 400 year-old “halfling.” Born to a human father and a vampire mother, she has for centuries been a loner, obsessed with using her samurai skills to rid the world of vampires, all the while knowing that she herself can survive only on blood like those she hunts. When she is sent to an American military base in Tokyo by the clandestine organization for whom she works, Saya immediately senses that this may be her opportunity to finally destroy Onigen, the evil patriarch of all vampires. Using her superhuman strength and her sword, she begins to rid the base of its evil infestation in a series of spectacular and elaborate showdowns. However, it is not until she forms her first human friendship in centuries with the young daughter of the base’s general that Saya learns her greatest power over Onigen may well be her ability to make a human connection…
Rated: Not Rated
Starring Odette Yustman, Gary Oldman
Directed by David S. Goyer
Run Time: 87 Min.
Enter a world of unrelenting evil as terror finds a new form in The Unborn. From the producers of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and the co-writer of The Dark Knight comes this shocking supernatural thriller about a young woman (Odette Yustman) plagued by chilling dreams and tortured by a demonic ghost that haunts her waking hours. Her only hope to break the debilitating paranormal curse is in an exorcism with spiritual advisor Sendak (Gary Oldman). See what lies beyond the doorway of our world in this non-stop nightmare of the undead…
Rated: R
Starring Adrian Pasdar, Jenny Wright, Lance Henriksen, Bill Paxton, Jenette Goldstein
Directed Kathryn Bigelow
Run Time: 94 minutes
Country boy Caleb Colton (Adrian Pasdar) whittles away the quiet rural nights hunting local girls – but when he falls prey to the mysterious and beautiful Mae (Jenny Wright), Caleb unknowingly becomes the hunted. Mae is no ordinary girl, Caleb soon learns; she is part of an outlaw band of vampires, and their love is about to lure him into a terrifying world of bloodlust, mayhem and absolute horror. Will Caleb pay the ultimate price for love and eternal life – or will he find a way to defeat the evil growing inside him each night NEAR DARK?
DEAD WOOD
Rated: NotRated
Starring Fergus March, Emily Juniper
Directed by David Bryant, Sebastian Smith, Richard Stiles
Run Time: 86 minutes
Anxious to get out of the city, two couples pack up and head out for a long weekend in the woods. Events take a turn for the worse when a girl mysteriously appears at their campsite looking for her missing boyfriend. The nightmare has only just begun, and they soon find themselves lost in an endless wilderness haunted by a dark evil. Slowly, they disappear one by one. What has really happened to those who were taken, and what’s about to happen to the few that remain in DEAD WOOD?