Dead Heat (Directed by Mark Goldblatt Starring Treat Williams, Joe Piscopo, Lindsay Frost 1988)
You can do so digitally on Netflix, and only there, because it currently does not have a physical release. The only question now is where you can watch it! And trust me, the brutality is there, especially in the last act.īetween the vampires and genre-shifting, you can see why I think this has double feature potential with the Robert Rodriguez horror classic. It feels like a superhero origin story, where Nadja the Nosferatu (played gore-riously by Peri Baumeister) has a heroic call to action, then tears up bad guys and horrifically drains them dry. Now, I can see the first half’s slow pace turning some viewers off, but I think it helps build the tension up before we get to the bloody bits.
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Sounds super rad, right? Luckily, the movie lives up to that promising premise! Think Air Force One, but instead of Harrison Ford being Special Agent President, you get a bloodthirsty monster saving the day by dismembering terrorist hijackers. It begins as one of those “terrorist-attack plane thrillers”, before taking a sharp turn into the blood-soaked horror/dark-tragic superhero genre. Point is, Blood Red Sky also follows that formula. Crime movie that turns into vampire romp yadda yadda yadda, I’m just repeating myself here. As I said before, that’s exactly what From Dusk Till Dawn is. That being “genre mash-ups”, or “films-starting-off-as-one-thing-but-ending-as-another”. You might notice a trend going on with this list.
“A woman with a mysterious illness is forced into action when a group of terrorists attempts to hijack a transatlantic overnight flight.” – via IMDB. Blood Red Sky (Directed by Peter Thorwarth Starring Peri Baumeister, Carl Anton Koch, Alexander Schee 2021) You can watch it digitally here, or physically here. In this flick’s case, when you start watching the film, you think it’s going to be a road movie, but instead, you get a monster flick akin to Pumpkinhead meets Night of the Living Dead. Honestly, I’m a little hesitant to dive too deep because I truly believe it deserves a watch, especially if you’re into creature features.Īs to why I think it pairs well with From Dusk Till Dawn, there are two reasons. On top of that, this movie gives a whole helping of practical FX action, complete with gruesome ghouls and glorious gore. You can tell he’s enjoying every minute, and chews the scenery like it’s his last meal. If there is one crowning jewel to steal from this treasure chest of gory gains, it’s Billy Zane. If there is one takeaway from the film, it’s Billy Zane. Talking about this flick, there’s one detail that takes precedence over everything else, and that detail is Billy Zane. I feel like I can just leave it at that and carry on, but I’ll go ahead and elucidate a bit, just for you. To each their own, I guess.īack to the point: Demon Knight is freaking fantastic. What was that idea? Well, wouldn’t you know it, it was a crime thriller/exploitative horror flick called From Dusk Till Dawn!įor some reason, they thought Bordello of Blood was the better option. You see, back when they were brainstorming what stories to use for the Tales From The Crypt movies, one idea came to the table that they ultimately discarded. There’s a big reason why this is placed on here, one that might convince you of my reasoning. Can’t go wrong with putting it in its context. It’s part crime thriller and, most importantly, part vampire romp. So what am I getting at with this movie history lecture? Robert Rodriguez’s From Dusk Till Dawn. The idea of the “vampire flick” has been around nearly as long as the Western, so saying they’re a cinematic staple would be an understatement. Silly me, forgot all about that.Ĭinema’s been an old haunt for vampires since the very beginning, from 1913’s The Vampire(which is more of a femme fatale feature than a vampire one, but the two concepts are so closely intertwined that it counts), to 1922’s silent-era classic Nosferatu, to 1931’s landmark Dracula, to 1943’s… okay, this is going to take forever, let’s fast forward a bit… to 2019’s colorful-gory-fever-dream Bliss. What else is there… oh! There’s also something close to a zillion movies featuring the bloody blood-sucking bastards in some form or fashion. Vampires: they’re a fun little monster, right? Godsmack did a rad song about them, that’s pretty neat.