Rating: D+
Dir: Ted Nicolaou
Star: Jonathon Morris, David Gunn, Kirsten Cerre, Starr Andreeff
[22] This Full Moon production clearly wants to be Interview with the Vampire; luckily, it isn’t, despite a similar fondness for candlelit angst and heaving bosoms. The hero, a “vampire with a mortal’s heart”, is hunting Ash, the most powerful of his breed in Romania. It’s largely traditional stuff, dark and brooding vamps, and Nicolaou does overplay his limited hand – if you see one shadow flitting across a building, you see twenty! Despite a heavy reliance on drapes ‘n’ chandeliers, the Eastern European setting (more for pecuniary reasons than out of any desire for authenticity, I suspect) gives this a lush and decadent feel, while the internecine vampiric bitching is a nice touch. In the end, though, you can’t help wondering where Buffy is when you need her…