Vampires: Brighter in Darkness

Well, it's a vampire movie. But if you can make sense of it, especially the last 5 or minutes, you're doing better than I.

The movie seemed like something that was made up as they went along, using a super8 movie camera. The sound quality suffers here and there, and it's tough to hear what is being said. The script is just awful, and the dialog is so stilted that the vampires seemed to be channeling Shakespearean actors. Maybe it was supportive of the plot, because the sister of one of the heroes was pretty contemporary in her speech.

It struck me a really well done high school movie project.

The story line is sort of ludicrous, even for a vampire movie. There are some scenes that I just wondered, "what the...? What was the point of that?

The acting was pretty poor at points, but I don't think it was the actors' failure as much as it might have been the director's. There were signs that the actors were trying to do something, but had such silly roles, stilted dialog, and likely were working to fulfill a director's vision. I felt a little bad for them being imprisoned in this film.

As others have mentioned, there were some good looking vampires in the movie. But I didn't think they outweighed the negatives of this amateurish attempt at a Gothic vampire tale. Just too much crazy stuff going on, too much magic, and too many arcane rules for vampires.

I gave it three stars because it was a heroic effort, and employed some decent post production effects worthy of praise. But I think the dialog REALLY drags this movie down.

Okay let me start by saying my star rating is very generous since this was such a low budget instalment. However let me explain that it's my love of all things vampire (save for Twilight) and the chemistry between the actors and the overall feeling I got from the film that inspired my generosity. This is a vampire love story and while the lead characters are gay that is not the focus of the piece. The storyline is unique, the CGI FX are middle school at best and poorly mixed but for the budget it's acceptable. The acting isn't Oscar worthy with acceptation to the fact that the lead actors are not gay but portray that trait with believability, this is the first professional gig many of the actors in it have done. Not a bad piece to cut your teeth on, in my opinion.. This film is the edited down compilation of a series but could have done with another go at the editing room to further reduce the run time without taking away from the story. Being a fan of big budget productions I can see how easy it would be to be critical of the components that feel lacking but when the focus is put on the parts that are amazing it makes acceptance easier.

If you are looking for a fun vampire romp with fangs, flesh, blood and preternatural abilities this is for you. If you want big budget then Twilight is that way.

This is terrible. The acting, every vampire seeming to be gay and hot and incomprehensible plots. Plus, v vampires have high tech inside of ancient pyramids?

During an airplane trip we see a view of the plane from above. It's a plastic toy airplane being moved through clouds. When a vampire jumps off and lands in an Egyptian desert, there's a vaguely pyramid shaped pile of dirt. Doesn't even look like a pyramid.

One and only good things about this movie are the hot guys.

After watching many of last year's gay vampire themed movies, I found this to be the best of the lot. Not that it's very good, or even good, but incomparable better than flops like 'The Vampire Boys' (1&2) or 'Kissing Darkness'. However poor the special effects, they could be find in modest sitcoms, and are ages afar the cited rival films. The main problem I found is the acting. Apart from Lucas (Rhys Howells) the main vampire, the cast can hardly deliver their lines, what is made more difficult because of the exaggerate fangs they wear. At least, most of the main cast of vampires is very cute, what may make you dismiss how bad they act. In a general evaluation, I find the movie passable for fans of the genre, that will have two hours of entertainment in a flick that had a necessary continuation in Vampires: Lucas Rising.

I hope there will be a continuation of this movie/season, "Vampires: Brighter in Darkness". It is a vampire/horror in the classical sense in that the terror is not like that of a Halloween/Friday the 13th type. Being a gay man I of course enjoyed the intimate scenes that are tastefully done. I like this film for these reasons, that and some of the tender/tactile/romantic scenes,(all three qualities of which I am a strong adherent of). The ending caught me completely off guard. I was expecting a fairy tale ending..."and they all lived happily ever after". In accordance with your guidelines re: "Spoiler", I will not elaborate further on the ending.

But the ending is such that I would really hope there will be a continuation. I would like to see how this would develop into a really good series for those of us that enjoy this type of entertainment genre.