Noites Macabras de Nova York

350 year old vampire works as an all night cab driver and only kills females that are about to or willing to die. His newest target is a TV producer who is dying from terimanal cancer, but he falls in love with her. Also, seems he didn't finish off all his victims cause female vampires walking the streets are slaughtering off innocent people.

Smart, stylish horror flick is well directed and features a good premise. Fast editing, snappy pacing, some seriously sexy moments, and a good finale make this very low budgeted film much better then expected. The special effects could have used a bit more work though.

Rated R; Strong Sexual Content, Extreme Violence, Graphic Nudity, and Profanity.

Not to be confused with the (actually slightly superior) film from 1990 of the same title, Graveyard Shift is the story of a vampire taxi driver. The premise of the film actually seems quite interesting; a taxi driver would be a good job for a vampire considering all the opportunity he would have for finding victims and this coupled with a trashy eighties vibe and some decent gore could have lead to a decent film; but instead what we end up is a thoroughly turgid vampire flick devoid of most of the elements that make the subgenre great. The base plot sprang from the central premise is that the vampire/cabbie meets a young woman that he likes and turns her into a vampire instead of killing her; leading her jealous husband to take revenge. The main reason the film doesn't work is down to the dull script which doesn't give us any reason to care for the characters or anything that is happening in the film. The script defies logic and most of the characters are just 'there'. There a few good moments in the film, but mostly it's just trash and ultimately rather boring too. I'm not surprised that this film has not won itself a better reputation - the reason is simply that it doesn't deserve one. Leave this rubbish well alone!

Silvio Oliviero has got to be one of the sexiest actors every to portray a vampire. His John Travolta SNF hair, muscular hairy chest, and ascent all add tremendously to the sex quotient of this film. So much hotter and more humane than any portrayal of Lestat could possibly be.

I have to disagree with the last reviewer. The movie is not as bad as he makes it out to be. Yeah, of course it has it's faults like majority of 80's B Grade movies but I haven't seen Central Park Drifter in years up until now and still find the film to be watchable. If you are looking for the hairs to stand up on the back of your neck and want to watch this for thrills you won't get it here. If you just want a horror film to watch with vampires involved and has an OK storyline then you can be entertained. If you want to take this seriously as I speculate the previous reviewer did, then you won't. I rate this movie half for its efforts based on storyline and the performances of actors was OK. As for killings...the murders were average and showed little blood. You won't find it gory here.

Vampire Stephen Tsepes (Michael A. Miranda) works the graveyard shift as a taxi driver, preying on the suicidal, the terminally ill and the occasional street gang. When he meets music video director Michelle Hayden (Helen Papas), who only has a few months left to live, he falls in love with the woman, much to the annoyance of her womanising husband Eric (Cliff Stoker), who teams up with a pal to try and end the vampire's existence.

Not to be confused with the 1990 Stephen King film of the same name, Graveyard Shift is an erotic vampire film that is more akin to Tony Scott's dreary dud The Hunger than MY favourite vampire films of the '80s, Fright Night, The Lost Boys and Vamp. Writer director Jerry Ciccoritti goes for style over substance, his film artfully shot, swathed in neon light, with plenty of fetishistic imagery. The visuals are undeniably pretty at times, but the whole thing is slow and somewhat pretentious in its approach, the pompous, oversentimental dialogue delivered in a surprisingly stolid manner that results in tedium.

Followed by a sequel, The Understudy: Graveyard Shift II, in 1989, so I guess someone must have liked it.