Strange Things Happen at Sundown

Brain Damage Films (isn't that just the coolest name for a company?!), 2003.

I suppose this would be considered a B-movie, and I really wish that Joe Bob Briggs were still around to rate it (IS he still around, I wonder?)

It's a vampire flick, but like my favourite Vampire flicks, it's got a "slant" to it, this time, being that the vampires are minor Brooklyn mafiosos, and one bad hit man who lives on Long Island who wears a cloak, dressed in black from head to foot, except for brightly coloured argyle or rainbow socks.

Also, there's one angry chick vampire, curly haired, black lipped, who goes around killing her own kind out of a personal vendetta, dropping black roses on their dead corpses.

Then there's the two idiot young couple, who decide to steal some of the mafiosos money and thus are on the run, and along the way pick up a Bible-thumper, leading to some very hilarious conversations regarding Christianity and how it can save the vampire soul.

There are some minor plots, but for the most part these are the main points to the movie. The only other thing I should mention is the Reaper's wife, who is an obsessive neat freak and goes completely ballistic over one spoon in the sink and has a rampaging monologue about how she used to be a queen with attendants and virgins every night and now, four hundred years later, she's simply a housewife in NY, peppered with several colorful descriptions - makes it a monologue worthy of noting, I must say.

Basically, this is a movie whose good dialogue lifts it up from being simply a cheesy slasher flick. Good characters go a long way for me, and even if half the actors can't act and/or are simply hamming the whole thing up just augments the actual charm of the film.

All in all - this is a great movie. Bad acting, cheesy plot, buckets of blood, lots of screams . . . but great characters and cool dialogue - you can easily watch it either alone or with a group of friends - it doesn't matter . . . just WATCH IT!

VG