So if you come to this site for the purpose of 1980s nostalgia, this is a movie for you. It stars the two Corey’s, Jason Patric, who was on the brink of stardom for a decade. Missing children are on the milk carton, and saxophonist rock bands perform on the Boardwalk of a beachside community. Jami Hertz was the it girl of the moment and Joel Schumacher was bringing his brand of style to the movies. There are mullets, comic books and motorcycles. Oh and we get evil Kiefer Sutherland. At the end there is a fun twist and the special effects make up of the era proves once again that the practical is greater than the digital.
The movie is a vampire story that is attempting to update the mythology to modern times, but it wants to have it both way. Sometimes the conventions matter, othertimes we simply will ignore them. It has a lot of fun working in teen vampire hunters with the Goths who really are vampires. The slow dawning of what is happening to Matthew as Patric’s character devolves into nosferatu great.
Of course it is the battle at the end which takes full advantage of the special effects make up as vampires melt, explode and generally die in unusual ways. Holy water, arrows, antlers and the biggest stake you ever saw foreshadowed in a Movie. Although the deaths are brutal, they are not overly graphic, which is odd given that the movie has an R rating with no f-bombs or nudity PG-13 could easily be the rating of the movie.
The Door’s song “People are Strange” is covered by Echo and the Bunnymen, and it bookends the film creating a creepy but funny vibe simultaneously. Barnard Hughes, who plays Grandpa in this movie was in Tron, from earlier in this week’s posts. This opened at the end of July, and my memory is that Dee and I saw it when we were out for our seventh anniversary and right before another wedding that I participated in. Summertime seems to be a pretty romantic season.
So if you come to this site for the purpose of 1980s nostalgia, this is a movie for you. It stars the two Corey’s, Jason Patric, who was on the brink of stardom for a decade. Missing children are on the milk carton, and saxophonist rock bands perform on the Boardwalk of a beachside community. Jami Hertz was the it girl of the moment and Joel Schumacher was bringing his brand of style to the movies. There are mullets, comic books and motorcycles. Oh and we get evil Kiefer Sutherland. At the end there is a fun twist and the special effects make up of the era proves once again that the practical is greater than the digital.
The movie is a vampire story that is attempting to update the mythology to modern times, but it wants to have it both way. Sometimes the conventions matter, othertimes we simply will ignore them. It has a lot of fun working in teen vampire hunters with the Goths who really are vampires. The slow dawning of what is happening to Matthew as Patric’s character devolves into nosferatu great.
Of course it is the battle at the end which takes full advantage of the special effects make up as vampires melt, explode and generally die in unusual ways. Holy water, arrows, antlers and the biggest stake you ever saw foreshadowed in a Movie. Although the deaths are brutal, they are not overly graphic, which is odd given that the movie has an R rating with no f-bombs or nudity PG-13 could easily be the rating of the movie.
The Door’s song “People are Strange” is covered by Echo and the Bunnymen, and it bookends the film creating a creepy but funny vibe simultaneously. Barnard Hughes, who plays Grandpa in this movie was in Tron, from earlier in this week’s posts. This opened at the end of July, and my memory is that Dee and I saw it when we were out for our seventh anniversary and right before another wedding that I participated in. Summertime seems to be a pretty romantic season.
80s Nostalgia Central: A Kirkham a Movie A Day Project 