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Eric Valette is obviously a talented film-maker, and so are the two guys who wrote the script. Therefore Maléfique is a great flick, made with just a few bucks but also tons of imagination. Well, I'm a bit exaggerating, but nevertheless I'm sincere. So, if you like dark, gory movies, go and see this one. It's really worth it.

I really loved watching this film. I found it both cruel and inventive, and directors Andrea and Canepa gave me the impression of being big horror fans. They obviously took a great deal of time writing the script and therefore managed to make the most of a pitch which is quite simple. Actually, when I think about it, this movie kind of reminds me of The Twilight Zone series, for the structure of the whole thing depends on an initial idea - one day, Mr X decides to break his routine and takes a short cut that will lead him into... the Twilight Zone! - which allows the two writers to imagine all sorts of scary incidents. Well, of course, the film rapidly becomes far more violent and rotten than any Twilght Zone episode! Dead End's worth a nice 8 out of 10.

Richard Dees is a reporter and he is a vampire because he works for a tabloid and earns his living by writing lurid stories and taking sordid pictures. He's got a despicable job and he is getting sick of it. Dwight Renfield is the Night Flier and he is a vampire too, but he is a "real" one – an evil and supernatural creature feeding itself on humans. He flies from one airfield to another across the U.S. on a black, private aeroplane. Of course he always leaves bloodless corpses behind him and Dees ends up chasing him with his tape recorder and camera. When they eventually meet, the vampire doesn't really feel like killing one of his kind, and he is ready to let him go. Yet Dees proves his curiosity will always make him chase people like the Night Flier and he will bitterly regret it. At the end of the film, everybody will see and remember Richard Dees as what he really was, that is to say a nasty character living on people's suffering. Well, this film is a great B-movie. The story is exciting, Miguel Ferrer is excellent and the film has no Hollywood-like happy ending. I strongly recommend it to anyone looking for a nice thrill and a few gallons of blood.