Jugular Wine: A Vampire Odyssey

The only aspects of this film which raise it from the unwatchable are the occasional scenes with unusual lighting, the half decent performances by most characters except the lead, and a few quite realistic bloody hearts. Switch to fast-forward, and forget the dialogue.

I don't know who the reviewers are on the DVD box or what movie they saw but I have seen high school videos better than this. There was not one good things to say about this movie. The sound was bad, with loud obnoxious music drowning out the dialogue...but maybe that was a good thing. The acting was worse than I have seen in elementary school productions. How the heck did anyone spend the time and money to distribute this?!

I'll be as generous as possible by saying that I can at least tell what this movie is trying to do: show the disorientation and weirdness of a living man's slow descent into undeath. However, in my opinion, it doesn't even come close to working as designed. The artsy visual effects, constant flashbacks, bizarre peripheral characters and other efforts at a "dream logic" feel only result in an exasperating incoherence. Totally unappealing characters, gratuitous gore (why would vampires be so wasteful of blood?) and too many different locations (should have stayed in Philadelphia with only flashbacks to Alaska - California and Louisiana sequences are completely unnecessary) add to a general feeling of wasted energy. (--and that...outfit...on Legion nearly made me lose my pizza.) Badly wants to be "Carnival of Souls" or even "Jacob's Ladder" but accomplishes only "The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies".

As has been said here, there's possibly a good movie under all this, but it's not what you get on the screen. Potentially interesting ideas are submerged by too many 'art film' delusions and cheap camera effects, not to mention editing that gives one the impression that at least one reel of out-takes was mistakenly substituted for footage that was essential to the plot. All in all, pass. It could have been intriguing and thoughtful, but it's just not.

Jugular Wine, despite the incoherent plot, actually could have been a good movie. "One man's quest into the madness and interplay of reality/fantasy that is the world of the vampire"

unfortunately, the movie moves along like a drunken sailor, making very little sense and with very heavy "documentary" overtones that make it seem even more ludicrous than if it had just been a schlock film with no pretensions. This is film that redefined "painful to watch"

I can't recommend it except to students of the vampire genre and film in general, and only then as a lesson on how not to do a vampire movie.

I really wish the makers of this film well..I am not saying I could make a better film. But I hope I could!