Vampires

Well, this is disappointing. I was ready to declare the 90s Carpenter’s field of hidden gems, but his 1998 feature kind of ruins that. Vampires is the result of a last second script rewrite originating from a sudden and massive cut in budget right before filming and Carpenter pretty much phoning it in visually (again, probably related to the budget cut). It’s poorly written, touching on several different story ideas without every telling enough of them to feel convincing, and the action beco...