"When I was a kid, we fuckin' respected our parents, we didn't fuckin' eat 'em!"

Cemetery Man (Dellamorte Dellamore) (1994)

This was very different from what I was expecting. I suppose I'd decided it was going to rather like "Fido". A man works in a cemetery and comes across zombies and things get bizarre. The thing is, things got rather more bizarre than I could handle.
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Stake Land (2010)

It was rather like "The Road" only with vampires rather than cannibals. We follow the story of a boy orphaned by vampires and the hardened vampire killer who decides to train him like an apprentice. These two characters don't talk much, but that's part of how their relationship works. Sure "Stake Land" doesn't have the same level of horror as "The Road" but that initially seemed like an advantage considering how incredibly miserable the experience of watching "The Road" was.
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Undead (2003)

The first movie from the Sperig Brothers prior to their excellent vampire movie "Daybreakers". I must say, I absolutely loved Daybreakers. Certainly the premise is ludicrous, but it is set up so well that I found myself buying into it completely. The ideas tied up into a realistic vision of a future overtaken by vampires and an intriguing parody of our current situation where oil reserves are running dry. By the end, any third-act problems seemed unimportant when we considered the treat that had preceded it (and it even stood up on a second watch when it was released on DVD).

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Twilight Eclipse (2010)

Well after the last three movies reviewed, surely this film must have the lowest rating of the lot, right? I mean it's Twilight after all. I must say that after rewatching "30 Days Of Night" with friends earlier this year and unintentionally sinking into an evening of unrelenting snark, I wasn't convinced that David Slade was really likely to be the saviour of Twilight that he was being touted as. He certainly wasn't going to be able to introduce his super-evil vampires into the Twilight universe and his portrayal of human relationships in "30 Days of Night" was cheesy at best.

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