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Subhuman
Posted On 03/29/2007 21:56:04 by DrBlood
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From the IMDB: "Martin Remaro while in hot pursuit of evil is hit by a
car. Ben and Julie the occupants of the car are convinced to flee the
scene of the accident and take him home. Instead they take him to there
place. Through a turn of events they come to discover that Martin is a
very troubled man. Wanting him out of their home they agree to collect
the drugs needed to help heal his wounds. Through the people they come
into contact with while purchasing the drugs they come to understand
that he is a very sick man that needs help and that they are in danger."
I actually enjoyed this for about half an hour but then started to get bored as it was all a lot of talk and no action.
The
script is good and you could probably happily listen to Martin the
vampire hunter spout his secondhand philosphical musings all day if you
were so inclined but what people really want from a horror film just
doesn't happen here. This is no "Blade" by any stretch of the
imagination. Action is brief and sparse and, although there are a
couple of CGI gory bits, it doesn't make up for the tedium of the rest.
The
acting varies from one character to another, Martin (played by William
MacDonald - who is also in the Blade TV series as Revered Carlyle) is
quite believable but everyone else seems to be unconvincing and wooden
in comparison. I found the vampire women at the start to be
particularly annoying, especially when they kept on giggling, and was
quite pleased when Martin decapitated the first one.
The
decapitations are badly done though and rely on CGI for the most
part... and it's cheap CGI at that. Blood spurting out of necks really
shouldn't remind me of that famous java applet which puts a lake under
a picture quite as much as it did.
If "Subhuman" had had a
bigger budget and some actors of the same calibre as its lead then it
might have been quite a cult alternative to things like "Buffy" and
"Blade". As it stands though, it is slightly below average and is only
worth a rating of 4 out of 10.
For a film that is only a couple of years old, it all seems very dated now too.
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