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The Vampire Conspiracy, a review by Jimmy

Title : The Vampire Conspiracy (2003)

Overview
Five strangers are abducted by a megalomaniacal vampire and put into a deadly maze of witz and endurance. Should they make it through alive, they receive this vampire entire fortune. Should they fail, they become his victims and are placed back into the game, this time as a succubus to hunt the next round of victims.

My Impression
All I can say is, at the risk of sounding partial again, I begin to think our horror industry is the best. The best way to describe this film is "Cube with vampires and more". Of course the participants don't have puzzle to resolve to open the door since they are in a maze, but they have to find what is the common denominator between them to survive. The movie low budget doesn't really hurt it, since nothing would have been really different with more money. The acting is good, but some of the characters are a little bit too . The only negative thing is the end who happen too fast and is unclear (for me it was).

Another Canadian winner
 
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(From Jimmy's 2009 Horror Marathon on October 11th, 2009)

Darkwolf , a review by addicted2dvd

Darkwolf (2002/United States) IMDb Director: Richard Friedman Writing: Geoffrey Alan Holliday (Original Material By), Chuck Scholl (Original Material By), Geoffrey Alan Holliday (Writer) Length: 94 min. Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.78:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital: 5.1, Spanish: Dolby Digital: 5.1 Subtitles: English, French, Spanish

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Stars:
Samaire Armstrong as Josie
Ryan Alosio as Turley
Andrea Bogart as Stacey
Jaime Bergman as McGowan
Alexis Cruz as Miguel
Aaron Van Wagner as Tom

Plot:Extras:

• Scene Access
• Feature Trailers
• Bonus Trailers
• Featurettes
• Outtakes/Bloopers
• Closed Captioned

Over all I would say that this one is a decent werewolf movie... but is far from the best I have seen.  There is some pretty cool werewolf attacks in the movie... but the special effects leaves much to be desired... especially the transformations from human to werewolf... where they literally... and on a couple most obviously was pure CGI work... and not very good CGI at that. The couple that was most obvious literally showed the transformation with a computer animation! Yes... it literally looked like a cartoon done with the computers. What is with that!?! A word of warning for those of you that don't care for it in the movies. This movie is pretty much loaded with nudity. I know that some on at least 1 yahoo group I will be sending this to will want to know that ahead of time. I bought this movie back in October of 2007 at Walmart... during their Halloween sale. I got it for only $5.00... so lets put it this way. If I would have paid any more then that for this movie... I would have been disappointed in my purchase. So if you are curios about this one... do yourself a favor... be sure you are able to pick it up cheap.




(From TV Stars in the Movies: On-Going Mega Marathon on June 9th, 2011)

"Due South" marathon, a review by Tom

4.05 The Ladies Man (1998-10-21)
Writer: Paul Haggis (Created By), John Krizanc (Writer)
Director: George Bloomfield
Cast: Paul Gross (Constable Benton Fraser), Callum Keith Rennie (Stanley "Ray" Kowalski), Beau Starr (Lt. Harding Welsh), Camilla Scott (Inspector Margaret Thatcher), Tony Craig (Detective Jack Huey), Tom Melissis (Detective Dewey), Ramona Milano (Francesca Vecchio), Gordon Pinsent (Fraser Sr.), Dixie Seatle (Beth Botrelle), Bill MacDonald (Sam Franklin), Nancy Palk (Carolyn Sherman), Art Hindle (Robert Bedford), Oliver Becker (Carmen Miranda), Robert Kennedy (Bartender), Jenny Parsons (Jocelyn Kerr), Kathryn Kirkpatrick (Prisoner #2), Michaela Mathieu (Diane Bowen), Angela Maiorano (Trustee #1)

A good episode. A rather serious one. Ray has to deal with the past after he has to help a woman who he falsely put behind bars for murder when he was a rookie.

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(From "Due South" marathon on December 31st, 2010)