I randomly started looking at the movies in my collection that were not in English as I recently went on holiday for a week and I took a load of movies with me and to my surprise about 90% of them had subtitles so I thought I had loads of ‘Foreign’ movies. Well because of this I thought I had loads of movies so would have a little sub-list of sub-titled movies and it turns out I have 12!! So, I will carry on regardless and add numbers to the rest as well. I had a bit of a rethink with the movies and I may have bowed to peer pressure that I am expecting and swap some movies around but no matter what, we are here and here is the German Vampire movie with me giving it the highest of the three scores. With the triple check threat of me being 75%, IMDb scoring this 6.2/10 IMDb and a pretty close 63% from Rotten Tomatoes. Well they pretty much agreed with each other where I liked this movie much more than they did. Which is nothing compared to how well I liked this movie compared to the box-office opinion when you look at this flop at the box office. It reportedly cost $8.7m to make with a German speaking film it was reliant on the domestic sales market and they didn’t want to see it really grossing $1.6m at the box-office. It did however find its success in the DVD and home movie arena, which is where I found it as well.
Onwards to the plot…
This is a Vampire movie and it investigates certain theories which I will get to within the plot I’d guess. The story follows a young girl (who looks like a boy at the beginning of the movie) who is a hustler and out to get bit of money here and there and steals from someone she probable shouldn’t of as he was being watched by the police who now give chase. Meanwhile three vampire ladies are living the life of Riley flying on expensive jets, night clubbing all night, driving sports cars and taking over venues as will. The head of the three is looking for a girl with the perfect eyes and has spent centuries looking for the perfect pair. Guess who has them the thief mentioned earlier who arrives at the club where these three ladies of the night entertain themselves of an even. She is bitten and brought into the group whilst still being pursued by the police officer from the earlier case. The Vampires point out that she cannot bring any men into the group as there are no male vampires as they are not needed in their society. They have no product and value to the collective and were wiped out years ago. The only thing is that the new girl is falling for the investigating police office giving off vibes of Romeo and Juliette but within a world of vampires and within a Feminist Separatism world he is not going to be accepted in way and will be killed as soon as they get wind of him.
I liked this movie, enough to have a copy of it. It is in German and you will have to put up with Subtitles or at least be aware that if you do not speak German you will be reading most of this movie. It is a good job that the action takes over most of the time. The three vampires or should I say four from the course of the movie have eternity to play with so how are you going to enjoy your time. Knowing that you cannot see the sunrise and have to be hidden away all day long but can have your own playground world all to yourself for the increasingly short nights that pass so quickly before you are back hiding away from the sunlight again. This movie asks and tries to answer what someone would do given eternity. It says you would enjoy it but forcing some friends to come along with you on the journey but on the whole you are here to have fun, drive fast cars and feed on the humans when needed and enjoy each other’s company as its going to be a really long eternity if you don’t get on ain’t it. The story is clever if not that original and for me it was interested to see a German take on a Vampire movie and give their spin on it. I haven’t mentioned that cast yet not that you would have heard of many of them if you are not into your German flicks are - Karoline Herfurth, Nina Hoss, Jennifer Ulrich, Anna Fischer, Max Riemelt, Arved Birnbaum and Steffi Kühnert. I am glad I cleared that up for you onwards to a boy’s movie if I ever to did see one.
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