8mm was interesting but then I love Nic Cage!

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The first chunk of the film was not great. A bit too ‘Lonely Ones’, Anne Rice, for my taste. The not great acting and the fairly mediocre effects left me wanting. And the fact that getting vamped disolves yer tattoos, rinses out yer hair dye and grows your hair to a more attractive length, almost made me laugh. But I stuck with it. And I’m glad I did.

To really enjoy this film you do need to stick with it. And once it gets passed the vaguely laughable, you need to forgive it it’s prior naivety and throw yourself into it. It’s a slow burner, but it does improve as it goes on.

For me, the high points of the film were the moments that I felt were inspired by ‘Near Dark’ (which I still consider, despite it’s obvious flaws, to be the seminal vamp flik). That said, when yer high point is when the film tries to do something that another film did better… it’s not great.

I have seen many worse vamp films. But I have also seen many better. What this one fails to achieve in character development (or getting you to relate to them) during the first part, it makes up for in the poigniancy of the latter. If it had managed to do both it would be a blinder of a film. Well… it would be better .

Only 4 skulls from me.