Clevercell Very disappointing...

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Loui Blair It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

Taha Avalos The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

FlashCallahan Which is a shame, because this almost parody of Near Dark had a lot going for it with the wonderful cast, and Hickox is notorious for making some very exciting B-movie fodder..Under the leadership of their ancient and powerful leader Mardulak, a colony of vampires seek a peaceful life in the desolate town of Purgatory. Imperative to the transition is the town's bloodmaking facility and it is just not working. Mardulak summons the designer of the plant, who brings his family along for what he thinks will be a busmans holiday, but he and his family are caught up in a war as another vampire, who detests the idea of vampires being anything other than predators.Like Ché, he starts a revolution, and a descendant of the Van Helsing family arrives intent on destroying all vampires........It sounds wonderful, two warring groups of Vampires fighting over synthetic/real blood, they should have waited until 2008 and made a seven season TV show about it all, it may have explained it all a little better...............From the creator of the Waxwork movies, I wasn't expecting something so mundane and trudging through the narrative about as fast as M. Emmett Walsh walks through his scenes, when we have the added bonus of Campbell as a Helsing relative, and Carradine doing what he does best, make bad material seem quite good.It's not terrible though. The scenes at the petrol station are genuinely funny, and the sets, although looking very cheap, are authentic and intimidating.But what you have Miles O' Keefe being in a totally different film, and the humour falling flat at almost every turn, it's quite difficult to enjoy what otherwise could have been a throwaway B-movie.No wonder it's almost vanished without a trace.

dworldeater Sundown is pretty good for what it is. What is it? A low budget western/horror/action/comedy flick with plenty of original ideas, a great cast and its tongue is firmly planted in its cheek. David Carradine is Mardulak, he owns a town in the American southwest called Purgatory. Purgatory is a sanctuary of sorts for vampires that wish to live out eternity in peace. Mardulak is also funding a blood substitute so vampires will no longer feed on humans for blood. Of course there are some that are not on the same page and do not see humans as their equals, just lunch. John Ireland is great opposite of Carradine as villain in this. Plus M. Emmet Walsh, Bruce Campbell, George "Buck" Flower and Emmet from Road House appear. Sundown The Vampire In Retreat is fine campy entertainment that does not take itself so seriously. But, by doing so it succeeds on its own merits. It puts a nice and unique spin on the vampire mythos and is a hilarious and fun film. This film may be a little cheesy, but performances are good and this project is ripe with fresh ideas. Sundown The Vampire In Retreat certainly delivers the goods for campy entertainment.

phoebuz62 i recently rediscovered this movie first in my memory and then in real life. i think my disappointment was partly caused by the fact that children (i was maybe 9 or ten when i first saw it) are so much more impressionable than the grown-ups (im 28 now), but maaaan, there was a lot of annoying stuff in this movie besides the acting (ever tried to make a movie with older people when you were a child? if anyone did, they might know wat im getting at).through the course of the movie the impression that the film makers just ran out of time or money and quikkly wanted to finish everything up became increasingly apparent. the choices and general behaviour of everybody involved seemed kind of illogical and irrational at times, which could, of course, be related to the bad acting. the thing that bothered me the most was the fact that the vampires just kinda became normal human beings by the invention of the wooden bullets. superior strength was implied when the one guy threw the other vampire through the diner window, but wat about other vampire qualities like heightened senses (besides the one smelling incident involving shane), overly fast movements or similar things that are generally known for vampires? i find it disappointingly bothering that all the super-human aspects were being dropped by the people responsible. during the last third of the movie it panned out to be more like some cheap western than a vampire movie. also, the progressive fact that vampire apparently explode when they see crosses.. what was that about? ever thought about how much danger a vampire will encounter in everyday situations?! just imagine they wanted to clean out the attic or the basement. if they haven't done that in, like, 300 years, i bet one or two things get crossed... and so they explode while vacuuming? man, that almost makes me p*s*ed.one could argue that it was the 80s and standards for acting, directing and special effects weren't as evolved as they are today, but i have seen older and much better movies, even by anthony hickox. interesting idea, not well executed. one thing i liked was deborah foreman. i haven't seen her before, but she was hot AND beautiful and was next to David carradine one of the tolerably decent actors.as already mentioned before me, this movie had potential to be a classic, but no. just no.

Ash Cornish We all know Bruce Campbell rocks. So when we were looking for a fun movie to sit down and watch we figured this would be no exception. Upon watching it we found it to be pretty good, but it seemed like it was just lacking in cheesiness department. We were hoping it would be more like Evil Dead, that same awesome cheese, the best kind of cheese. The real kicker for us was the ending. After watching a movie about vampires the last thing we wanted to see was a religious reference, well, not even a reference but a direct religious plug. We stopped and looked at each other and just said "What the f*&#?!". Seriously, who watches a vampire movie in hopes of religious uplifting? Not I. Not anyone I know. It could have been an okay movie with a bit more cheese and taking out the ridiculous religious push. This is a good movie if you're 13 and living with religious oppression and can't watch anything better. Disappointing.