Thursday, January 3, 2013

Slayer (2006)

Oh boy, is that the best they could do for the cover?  This does not bode well.

Hawk, the head of an elite military squad is sent to South Africa to fight vampires.  But to complicate things, his ex-wife Dr. Laurie Williams is in the area doing research. Uh oh.

The main problem I see is not the romantic entanglement, but that Hawk and his crew are the worst vampire hunters ever.  People repeatedly go into the woods, meet vampires and get killed.  They have a book on vampires, but still don't realize that they need to kill them with stakes, not bullets. Good god.

You will get no satisfaction from this film with it's capitalist/corporate greed message which is put forth by the vampires as their attacks are due to the loss of the rain forest and animals that live in there which they need to survive. Vampires for ecology? Come on!

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