The Vampires Collections

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Studio: Sony Pictures
Product Type: DVD

Description

JOHN CARPENTER'S VAMPIRES: A contemporary and blood-chilling take on the gothic legend, horror master John Carpenter's Vampires stars James Woods as the ultimate vampire slayer on his most dangerous mission ever. JOHN CARPENTER PRESENTS VAMPIRES: LOS MUERTOS: This follow-up to the box office hit John Carpenter's Vampires has Jon Bon Jovi taking over as the top Vampire hunter. He leads an unconventional band of fellow hunters into battle with an ancient bloodsucker who is in search of a legendary artifact that will let her kind walk in the daylight. VAMPIRES: THE TURNING: A young American kickboxer in Thailand joins up with a group of vampire slayers - some vampire and some human - in order to rescue his kidnapped girlfriend from Kiran, a vampire warlord awoken by a solar eclipse.

Customer Reviews:

John Carpenter Triple Header.......2007-03-11

A simple box case for three movies in their original packaging. No additional extras are provided or slimmer packaging, its just a convenient way to pick up three movies. These are John Carpenter's three Vampires movies. They are as follows:

Vampires: the original staring James Woods at his absolute best as a church-sanctioned vampire hunter who find himself as all that stand between humanity and total vampire domination. I have watched this one many times. A personal favorite.

Vampires Los Muertos: Jon Bon Jovi is a vampire hunter hired to go after a master vampire following in the footsteps of the baddie from the first film. Rewatchable but not as good as the first.

Vampires The Turning: A new vampire mythology with the action set in Thailand. An American tourist tries to save his girlfriend from a vampire and gets caught up in a plot to eliminate all vampires for good. Nifty plot and settings. A very visually pleasing film.

Three good and solid vampire films with Los Muertos being the weakest as it is the least original and lacks the star power of the first. A convenient way to pick up the whole set. Check it out.

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"Rites" not done right

The Satanic Rites of Dracula
Starring: Patrick Barr , Michael Coles , Peter Cushing , William Franklyn , and John Harvey
Director: Alan Gibson
Manufacturer: Cleopatra
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B000E1168A
Release Date: 2006-02-21

Customer Reviews:

"Rites" not done right.......2006-05-24

After the success of "Horror of Dracula," Hammer Horror apparently decided to wring the last buck out of the Dracula franchise, with Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee as the hero and villain. The final chapter is "Satanic Rites of Dracula," a limp horror flick that is rather boring when it's not silly. Throw in some naked breasts and dated haircuts too.

Scotland Yard uncovers a rural cult of satanists, and learn that their members include prominent scientists and politicians. It would be a scandal if they made an error, so they ask Professor Larimer Van Helsing (Peter Cushing) to investigate. Van Helsing pays a visit to one of the cultists (his old college buddy) and discovers a horrific secret: a new, superstrain of the Black Death.

Even worse, Van Helsing finds that his old nemesis Dracula (Christopher Lee) has returned from the grave (how many times is it now?) and is the leader of this cult. While Scotland Yard battles hordes of vampiric women hidden in the cult's house, Van Helsing is taken prisoner by Dracula himself -- and his granddaughter Jessica may be Dracula's next victim.

Horror isn't supposed to be silly, and it's not supposed to be tedious. "Satanic Rites of Dracula" is both. It feels as if Hammer Horror was running out of potential Dracula scenarios, so they threw in some cheesy satanism and lots of because-we-can nudity. (Apparently to stake a female vampire, you have to pull open her shirt first)

Worst of all, very little of it makes sense -- why does Dracula want to kill everyone, and thus himself? Uh... he just does, okay? That's about the whole explanation. And the illogical storyline is bogged down by really bad dialogue ("My revenge has spread over centuries and has just begun!").

Most of the movie revolves around Scotland Yard's idiot inspectors bumbling around, getting into trouble and barely escaping those vampire sexpots. Occasionally they stake somebody, but not often enough. It takes most of the movie for Dracula to even show up, and when he does, Lee looks kind of peevish, like he resents being in this cheesy movie. Somehow, I can't blame him.

It's especially a shame because Lee and Cushing are the sole bright points. Lee was as impressive and creepy as ever, with his sonorous voice and seductive bloodsucking. And Cushing had the toughness and steeliness to play a good Van Helsing, although they water down his character by giving him a twerpy granddaughter.

It's a good thing "Satanic Rites of Dracula" was the last of Hammer's Dracula movies, because this one was a pathetic enough finale to the series. Lee and Cushing are the only reasons to watch at all.

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