True Bloodthirst (2012)

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

This film can be seen with an open mind and interpreted in several ways: as a parable (vampires are the Romanian lawmakers and politicians that we managed to stay together with one way or another, and the bloodthirsty mutant vampires are the multinational corporations and the International Monetary Fund - draining our life force completely), as a documentary (vampires are Gypsies, probably not by coincidence, exactly where it is indicated the vampires' nests location in the film it is a large population of Gypsies), as a cinematic project of our Bulgarian neighbors, as a relaxing pastime by disconnecting your brain, or as a terrifying picture of a dystopian future (you never know what can happen as a side effect of the shale gas extraction, our beloved Government recently approved it, following the indications of the powers that be). Do not watch it with great expectations (pun intended!) - it is not written "Dogville" in the TV program or the rented DVD, there are not great directors and great actors in the cast -it is exactly what is: a small-budget Sci-Fi film. You may be a little disappointed, but if you want to be really disappointed, go see GI Joe 2 - it makes Transformers look like it was made ​​by Ingmar Bergman.

The story is not terrificly original but what vampire flick is? Any cleverness or wit was severely hampered by sluggish editing, badly executed effects (the slap!), poor/lack of decent music to set any kind of mood or drama, and barren sets (the club and strip club were really awful).I had already read the True Blood rip off theory and although they do have synthetic blood the similarity is mild. There are elements from a few in the genre, even Bram's original. The title was unfortunate.What I did like: the Romanian setting; with mention of old Drac himself, and vamp hunter Jonny Harker ha! The big beasties are quite cute, and the double cross intrigue mildly interesting. The actors were not wooden (well most of them) A decent story poorly executed. It had potential for so much more, shame.I've seen better effects in TV shows and think it would have made a better TV miniseries with CGI. Would love to know the budget? and if it wasn't very big then basically why bother?? With all the other movies out there and technology of today it should have been better.It kept my interest all the way through and apart from the forced camaraderie between vamps and humans being a bit lame I liked the characters, they were more likable than in some Hollywood Blockbusters.6/10 for effort of the actors and writers (and some of the production staff)

I caught this late at night when I really needed to go sleep, but I couldn't stop watching ! and I loved it! The plot was not original,( there are several movies out sort of like it ,but its still GOOD ) and it was fun. I think all the cast did a great job with the script, but I especially loved Ben Lambert as Nikolai , he was perfect for the part! I haven't seen him before this but will be looking for him in other things! Andrew Lee Potts is always good in anything I have seen him in ( I loved him in Primevil ) and he did great in this too. Neil Jackson was very good too, and yes I think he did better in this than Push too.. Some of it was pretty goofy, but that is what made it so much fun! I think All the actors and actresses did a great job in this and I will be looking for it on DVD.

With all of the vampire movies out there it's of course hard to stand out or do anything new. But that's not even the problem with this movie. It does in fact has a pretty original and promising main premise but it just doesn't know how to handle it and suffers greatly from an extremely poor script.Sort of funny how it has become a sort of a trend to have movies and series in which vampires and humans are now living alongside each other. It's an interesting evolution for the genre but perhaps it has run its course already. As this movie also demonstrates, there is only so much you can do with this premise.And this movie isn't really doing anything all that interesting with it anyway. The way the story is getting told makes it actually hard to understand what is going on at times. Not that it has a complicated script but the overall movie doesn't really has a good flow to it, making the story come across as messy and uninteresting at times. I still don't really know were the story was trying to take the movie, or why vampires and humans had to team up in this.All of the story developments in this movie just didn't ever made enough sense to me. It seems as if stuff just happens and you are simply supposed to just go along with it. The movie isn't focusing enough on telling one good and clear main story, making this movie mostly unpleasant to watch.It just doesn't really offer enough entertainment either. There is plenty of action but it's just hard to ever feel involved or taken by any of it. You'll have a hard time caring about this movie, or any of its characters. All of the emotions fall incredibly flat because of that and it just doesn't ever makes this a fun or thrilling or tense movie to watch.There just is no good reason why you should ever watch this movie!3/10 http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/