Movie Review - Vampires

Is James Woods the biggest name in this? Daniel Baldwin is nobody & Maximillian Schell (playing a cardinal) was only known for The Black Hole. I was annoyed by the big goof that the vampire entered their hotel suite without being invited (twice, when he bit the hooker and when he came in the front door). This is a really well known rule (that a vampire can NOT enter an abode without being invited) and that annoyed me. I also realized I'd seen this as soon as I saw the priest. I caught the original version of The Fog the previous day on TV, that had worn well with age. This film despite being newer had not worn well. From reading some of the forum postings this is based on a book? Who by? Obviously the vampire hunters have a set of rules as they are both constantly quoting them at each other.

Woods cuts the heads off all his dead friends (and the hookers and sheriff) and stakes them all to ensure they stay dead and don't become vampires. I assume this is to make us feel sorry for him in some way? Well it totally didn't work here then. And am I the only one whose going to point out the goof where Wood's tosses the lighter. It'd go out before it ever hit any of the gasoline. Why Montoya undresses the stripper in the hotel room (It'd look suspect as hell if room service came in there), I assume it's to stop her escaping (A vampire isn't going to have nudity issues, are they?). Woods does debunk some of the Hollywood vampire mythology but he doesn't debunk the entering a room myth. The master vampire also enters a church (so the not allowed on hallowed ground myth is rubbish as well?) Montoya is infected when the girl tries to escape (because he was an idiot and trusted her) but tried to cauterize his wound to stop himself being infected. He also lies to Woods about what happened in the room.

They manage to find out where the master is by the hookers link to him (in San Miguel) and Montoya lies to Woods again about being tired (when he's turning into a vampire). We then find out why Woods has been teamed with a priest who was previously a scholar, he tells him about the sign for the sun. The Master then descends on a monastery with a group of 7 master vampires (one of whom looked very much like Charlie Sheen). Woods tells us it took 5 days for his father to become a Vampire (but the hooker and Montoya seemed to turn much quicker than that). The Vampire group kills all the monks and find the cross that they have been looking for that will allow them to walk in the day. (also debunking the "crosses kill vampires" myth).

The hooker leads the vampire hunters to the monastery full of dead monks. She then guides them to the abandoned town where the masters nest is. The Priest kills his 1st vampire (and goes a bit mental). The priest is sent (unarmed?) to lure the vampires into the elevator to try and kill the 7 minor master vampires that the main master has brought with him. The hooker starts to remind me more of a Pfeiffer sister as she turns into a vampire. They kill 2 minor masters (a Man and a woman who breaks the jeep winch) before nightfall. As night comes it appears they have infected the whole town and the hooker has turned in Montoya's jeep as she attacks him. (It took her 2 days to turn, by the way).

Woods discovers the cardinal (Schell) had betrayed his group in the town. Montoya saves Woods from being burnt at the cross as the villagers/vampires are forced to retreat back into the prison at the rising of the sun. (Oh and he manages to walk past lots of bits of daylight without catching fire, BIG GOOF!) Woods kills the main master Vampire far too easily by exposing him to sunlight, and has a weak emotional scene with Montoya allowing him to have a 2 day head start to flee with the vampire hooker (Vaya Con Dios means Go with God, by the way).

Weak ending with the priest becoming a swearer like Woods (and Montoya was played by Daniel Baldwin? NO WAY! He's the spitting image of Anthony La Paglia hence me thinking it was him for the whole review, I actually had to edit the entire review for each time I'd written his name because of that!).