Synopsis
Two curious teenage boys break into an old mortuary looking for thrills, only to find themselves stalked by a former teacher who is a very real vampire looking to increase the ranks of the undead.
2006 Directed by Ernest R. Dickerson
Two curious teenage boys break into an old mortuary looking for thrills, only to find themselves stalked by a former teacher who is a very real vampire looking to increase the ranks of the undead.
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It was pretty interesting! Directed by Ernest R Dickerson. One of the Masters of Horror series. Had some good points and had some that missed the mark. Overall I found it entertaining and not bad! If you get the chance check it out!
Just to let you know the Masters of Horror is leaving Tubi in 8 days! Hopefully it will get picked up by another streaming service.
Ernest R. Dickerson's Masters of Horror entry sees a couple of kids breaking into a retirement home and getting more than they bargained for in the form of an old vampire! This is a very fun entry and easily one of the highlights of series two. It's a bit slow to start but soon makes up for it. It reminds me of one of those TV movies Lamberto Bava in the late eighties. There's plenty of nods to vampire lore and the central location is suitably creepy. The two leads are likable which helps once the plot gets going and there's a memorable small turn for Michael Ironside as the old vampire. It's a shame there wasn't more of him, however! It's not great or a masterpiece but it's enjoyable tongue in cheek fun. Nice tribute to Bela Lugosi's Dracula at the end!
Ernest R. Dickerson directs The Hell Out Of The V Word, taking a decent Mick Garris script and turning it absolutely terrifying. Utilizing extended passages of low-light and chiraoscuro, longer takes which build suspense and real menace, direct nods to earlier horrors (my favorite being the Collinswood Funeral Home), and emotional investment in the story. The V Word feels like a feature film, even one that might have first aired as a 70's TV Movie Of The Week. Extra bonus points for extended Doom^3 Xbox footage intro sequence! One of the very best Masters Of Horror episodes.
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Two teen boys seeking fun enter a mortuary and run into a vampire that use to be a former teacher and pedophile.
Teens will be teens and vampires will be vampires. Samo samo!
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Masters of Horror - Season 2 - Episode 3 - Director: Ernest Dickerson
Kerry and Justin are two bored teenaged boys hanging out playing Xbox. They want to do something "special" tonight so they break into the local funeral home to see a dead body. Not just any dead body though, it's the body of the school bully Billy Redford who died in a car accident just a few days ago. Once they find the body a vampire rises from one of the stretchers in the embalming room and proceeds to bite Kerry in the neck while Justin escapes. Now home alone and in a state of panic Justin can't get anyone to believe him over the phone. He doesn't…
inky black interiors close in on all sides in this bummer millennial teen death trip. the truest cinematic representation of YA horror lit that's too nasty, too subsumed by its own bleak view to exist as anything but bottom-of-the-barrel high school pulp, which is really where it's most comfortable, anyway. equal parts fright night (or maybe cirque du freak) and van sant's paranoid park. feels like it pioneered tyler, the creator's vibe in 2011, right down to the homoeroticism you could cut with a scalpel.
Any time I see makeup effects by Nicotero and Berger pop up, I know I’m gonna enjoy at least one aspect of what I’m watching… this wasn’t the best but as expected, the effects were top notch.
undoubtedly one of the high points of the series thanks to dickerson's technical skill, put at the service of an episode that manages to combine a narrative with a certain emotional core capable of talking directly with the vampiristic canon of which it's part (a beautiful scene is a direct quote to tod browning's dracula, while the engine of fiction is already running with full force). but the most remarkable thing is obviously the precise direction, filled of interesting details that make this small television work a visual delight despite the restrictions of the format: chiaroscuros, expressionist-like shadows, dutch angles, grainy filters; all elements intertwined in the formation of a gloomy atmosphere, not overly present during the series, and which finally boils in sudden explosions of vampire violence, also demonstrations of some disgusting gore fx. really good shit
Any time Michael Ironside graces the screen, I'm in, but especially if he's playing a cool dude vampire teacher sucking on his students. Filled with cutting edge mid-2000's references, and not a single scare.
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"You ever seen a dead guy?"
Starts off pretty tame and then has a nice little twist that I felt elevated the entire story.
A few nice moments of gore and scare, but nothing over the top. The best part of this film is in its characters, specifically the main teenager who has a crisis of faith, let's say.
The tone is solid throughout and it's a slow build to its unique conclusion. Pretty fun stuff and non-traditional vampire tale. Nice.