Cult of the Vampire (2016)

Great Film overall

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Art-house Euro styled horror film with a good no-name cast. The lead actresses; Iva Stelmak and Megan Porter are perfectly cast and bring depth to their characters. The music makes this film more powerful because the lyrics tell the story as well as the dialog and actions. Pacing is fast and not predictable. It has a "Cult Classic" vibe for us Vampire aficionado's. "Cult of the Vampire" is on my list now as one of the better Vampire films the last few years.

It's funny how you come across entertainment today. In the old days we would go to the theater and watch what we thought from the movie posters to be our best choice. Sometime the posters were better than the movie, sometime not. Lately all the media hype and trailers talk up and push entertainment to us and I have to admit, I think the trailers are rubbish. They just tell the story in 90 seconds and show everything they can to suck you in. Cult of the Vampire doesn't have a "Hollywood" trailer. It is a teaser trailer that shows a few scenes and for me that made me want to dish out the rental fee to watch it and I am glad I did. I rated it 8 stars because it won me over in many ways... a no "Star" cast that was powerful, the music was better than big Hollywood can ever do and the story was refreshingly unique and the naturalness of the subject matter was key for me to like a modern Vampire film. They made it real, believable and great entertainment.

I enjoyed this story of rock'n'roll and love called CULT OF THE VAMPIRE. Iva Stelmak who stars as Xandra makes this movie special. She has that charisma so few actors/ actresses have today. I looked her up on IMDb and see she hasn't been in much. Hollywood needs to call her and get her into some of their big budget films. Forget Jennifer Lawrence, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and the rest Hollywood's chosen. I want to see Iva Stelmak in more films. I'm not the only one here seeing her star power!

Xandra (Iva Stelmak) is a rebellious vampire who ignores her own kind to be with Camille (Megan Porter) and play in an all girl rock band. The coven doesn't like it, threatens her with bad Romanian accents and works to disrupt her life as punishment in the nights of LA.The music was performed by Cat Tasso. There is clearly a Concrete Blonde influence in the style of music, the location, lead singer, and of course vampires as their big album was "Blood Letting." Comparisons to the band in the film were made to Zeppelin and Hendrix as was Concrete Blonde in real life. They could have just compared them to Concrete Blonde instead of pretending they never existed. At times I felt I was watching a video, which was a good thing because the drama aspect was not great. Acting was so-so.The dialogue was metaphorically poetic at times. "You are out of reach of the hand of the clock." They seemed to have saved all those types of lines for the French vampire. The band members did not look like they were playing their instruments, but then again I don't think even Michael Nesmith cares anymore. What wasn't filmed in black and white contained scenes with little color with blonde being the stand out. The film had potential to be a cult classic, but feel short in script and a few actors. Peter J. Morton who starred in "Ciaron, the Demon Hunter" and was awful in it, ruined the character Drago in this feature. The man can't act, stop putting him in front of the camera. Phil Pritchard was miscast.Cult type film not for everyone.Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity.