Vampyre

Good bad films like this are often hard to reach consensus around. It is a bad film in a lot of ways. It's shot on video (or it looks like it), the actors are amateur, and the writing is stilted. But then again, it has moments that made me laugh out loud. I pictured these people getting together to make the movie as a labor of love, hoping to capture a New England Gothic (for example, the shots around the graveyard outside the church were fun), but then mixing in goofy stuff (like the trio of locals whose costumes look like they stopped at a thrift store on the way to the set).

One question: Are the references to Dreiser's film serious?

Come for the vampyres, stay for Justin the Doctor's Mascot.

I have seen some bad films in my life...but this one takes the cake!

Doesn't even qualify as a "good" bad film - it's as if the producers went totally out of their way to find people who couldn't act in ANY way, shape or form... An insomniacs dream - if this film doesn't put you to sleep...then your only other choice is suicide!!

What a wonderful remake of the original. This release must be recent, as I have not seen this film anywhere else until recently. Hallenbeck has shown he is a master craftsman at making Hammeresque movies. The camera work is quite well done, and the location for shooting well thought out. And Saratoga Spring's own Elizabeth Carstens heads up the vampires. Although a non-speaking part, she spices up the movie with her topless bareback horse riding and her seduction of a local townsman is very scintillating in the buff. Great work!!!

This movie felt 3 hours long. 95% of the vampire scenes are shot in blazing DAYLIGHT. The acting is sooo bad but it's only amusing half of the time. The main vampire woman rides a horse with her boobs out (1 point there) and runs around with her boobs out (2 more points...literally) You've been warned.

Anyone renting a movie called "vampyre" needs to keep in mind they're renting a movie called "vampyre." And if you're expecting a classic then rent a classic you've heard of.

That being said, Vampyre is pretty entertaining. It was produced with almost no budget at all, which is impressive as it is a period piece (and well-done, considering).

The acting is campy, and the story isn't that captivating, but I've watched it many times. The locations are beautiful. And, after all, there is a topless woman riding around on a horse seductively. Bruce Hallenbeck is the poor-man's Herschell Gordon Lewis, if you can imagine that.