Actually, I just remembered this terrific, fairly recent vampire movie from Mexico called Cronos. I saw it during the Midnight Madness screening in Toronto Film Festival about a decade ago and it left an impression. It went counter to a lot of tired convention of the genre by having the vampirism transmitted through a device, and the main victim be an old man. Good acting, too, if I recall.
By Guillermo del Toro, who did MIMIC, BLADE II and HELLBOY (and a period ghost story I memfault on the name of).
I LOVE From Dusk Til Dawn.
I'll go along with that - it's fun. You can tell the script was originally written to showcase the effects house, but that's part of the fun.
By Guillermo del Toro, who did MIMIC, BLADE II and HELLBOY (and a period ghost story I memfault on the name of).
And starring Ron "women are only hot for me when I'm in prosthetics" Perlman.
I'll start. I think Kevin Costner trying to do British was pretty effing funny.
When did he ever try to do a British accent?
Tony Curtis' "Yondah lies the castle of my faddah!" still sets the bar for bad accents as far as I'm concerned.
Kate Beckinsale was pretty impressively bad in Van Helsing as well - I expected her to turn to Jackman at any moment and say "Give to me large kiss!"
What? No love for Stephen Dorff in Blade?
Only because I'm hogging it all. Though parts of the movie without Dorff lounging about pantherishly with no shirt were also good, particularly that opening "Blood Bath" sequence. Does The Addiction count as a Hollywood movie?
By Guillermo del Toro, who did MIMIC, BLADE II and HELLBOY
Huh. I didn't know that. Mimic is the only one I've seen, and I remember liking that one, even though it was cheesy and reminded me of the aliens from The X-Files movie.
Oh! There was also this little Canadian movie called Reflecting Skin, which had very young Viggo Mortensen and Lindsay Duncan (now playing Servilia in Rome) as lovers, and was narrated by this boy protagonist who was Viggo's brother and thought Duncan's character was a vampire. It was an extremely disturbing flick, with the theme of child abuse weaving through the narrative. I've only seen it once, but it's the sort of film one has difficulties forgetting--it was very vivid, and tragic in a hallucinatory way. (Plus, there was an exploding frog!) I could probably track it down, but I'm afraid rewatching it would lessesn my memory of its impact.
Matt! How could you forget
Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves?
One of the fun things about
Near Dark
is that it's very, very straight, as a movie. So it's all about blood=sex, but not at all homoerotic. The big sexual image is of a guy on his knees, sucking hungrily at a woman's wrist (which is at about waist height).
It was -- refreshing. Funny, that a vampire movie featuring a boy and a girl should feel so revolutionary (in modern context). Like it went all the way to the end of the conventionalness scale, and came out the other side.
There is also the part where it takes place in rural Texas, and nobody ever says the word "vampire."
Opa!, askye. He likes hard-boiled carrots.
(Not quite like being befriended by Oprah, George, but I'll do what I can for you.)
Matt! How could you forget Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves?
I'm not forgetting it, I just wasn't aware that Costner was bothering to try for a British accent in it.
I liked
The Wisdom Of Crocodiles.
