Montrak

For this budget, it's almost a masterpiece. The film perfectly captures the style of the 80s. Every second you notice that the makers are fans of movies like "Lost Boys" or "Near Dark". Especially the light and the atmosphere are really good. I really like it.

If you are into vampires, you will surely like this one.

But let me tell you one thing first: This is a German film original called Montrak, which was dubbed for its american release and been pulled out as Vampire War in the United States. Unfortunately the English dubbing is a joke, which isn't doing this movie any good. However, if you can look past the dubbing, you get an entertaining Vampire flick with lots of action. My only other critisim, the film could have been easily 20 min. Shorter. And also, gorgeous actresss Julia Dietze (Iron Sky) have deserved a better and bigger role

The story of Montrak can only be described as epic.

It starts in the dark age and ended up in post modern Berlin days with a clan of Vampires preparing everything to take over the world. Only a small group of Vampire Hunters comes in their way, as humanities last line of defense.

Right off the bat the film narration has some sort of echo chamber that just does not work. It just got worse with the English voice over. I would rather just read the caption. Most films I have seen do a terrible job with the dubbing. To be hones I was done after the first 10 minutes.

Ugh! I was not expecting much from this cheapie vampire horror flick, but considering my expectations were low, they were exceeded in this poorly made German horror movie. The film itself looks like crap, the story seems to have potential, but the execution of it here fails to deliver. I have a version that seems to be made by an American company and the option to watch it in it's original German language is not available. The English overdubbing is horrible and combined with the poor direction, camera work and editing made this a hard movie to get through. A movie about warring Vampire factions could be interesting, but this D level dud fails to deliver the goods. The film is quite gory, but fails to maintain my interest in anything cohesive. The box compares this to Near Dark and I fail to see any similarities. I am reminded more of Subspecies, but this cinematic turd is not even in the same league as that B movie classic.

This is a harder vampire movie that doesn't have a bad plot. Sometimes the story could be a bit more innovative. The special effects are really cool. The movie entertained me a lot. Actually 6/10, but since it's an independent movie it gets an extra point.