From: madlove@arkham.dc   
      
   On 08/07/2019 02:31 PM, Wouter Valentijn wrote:   
   > Op 6-8-2019 om 23:55 schreef David:   
   >>> "Madlove"  wrote in message news:qi8o02$1fqd$1@gioia.aioe.org...   
   >>> I just watched this mess ... holy cow is this ever a bad movie!   
      
   >> Thanks for the warning. I'll give it pass.   
      
      
   > Can't be as bad as 'Voodoo Moon' I think. Switched that off after 10 minutes.   
      
   You can watch it online. After CK does her 1-minute long "erotic" pole   
   dance the movie pretty much nosedives into pure crap. Read the review,   
   it's accurate!   
      
   https://vampirefilmreviews.wordpress.com/2017/07/20/the-thirst-2006/   
      
   Back when I first watched this DVD, some three or four years ago, I   
   found the film so unspeakably bad that I had to fast-forward parts of it   
   in order to get through.   
      
   Now, in order to give it a proper and fair review, I forced myself to   
   sit through it without the recourse of pressing fast-forward.   
      
   Lisa is sick. She is very sick. But she does not want to burden her   
   boyfriend Maxx with the truth, which leads to some amount of tension and   
   distrust. Lying in a hospital bed, Lisa has a strange vision of a   
   mysterious lady. As both Lisa’s and Maxx’s life are touched by this   
   mysterious lady and her weird “family”, things get ugly and decisions   
   have to be made, sides have to be chosen, and battles have to be fought.   
      
   I know this plot description sounds vague. Mostly because I am not sure   
   what counts as a spoiler in this film and what doesn’t. But also because   
   some things in the film’s thin plot are not exactly crystal clear. There   
   are many minor plot holes and inconsistencies.   
      
   The major supporting (vampire) characters all fight a losing battle   
   against the script. Baldwin is the most lucky one, as his character is   
   dull but straightforward. And Jackson is successful in pulling off his   
   character and making us feel that he has some hidden depth. But Jeremy   
   Sisto and Serena Scott Thomas stand no chance. Their characters’   
   background and motivation are entirely unclear, and watching Sisto   
   trying to do something with this character is like watching an animal   
   severely injured in a car crash – you really hope that someone will come   
   and put him out of his misery.   
      
   There is a big emotional scene between Lisa and Maxx early on in the   
   film, and neither Keeslar nor Kramer are able to convince in that scene.   
   The writing is certainly no help at that moment, and the editing might   
   also be to blame. We simply do not get enough set-up for this scene to   
   really work. And there is not enough time afterwards to let it breathe   
   before they throw in the next “big” scene. There are many other   
   sequences featuring interactions between these two characters; and   
   Kramer often is able to pull it off, but Keeslar mostly isn’t, which in   
   turn makes Kramer’s performance in those scenes come to nothing.   
      
   Gore is, in general, their go-to ingredient in this film. The Thirst   
   looks like one of those films where everything (scenes, plot,   
   characters) is just an excuse to show as much gore as possible. But I   
   believe exactly the opposite is the case here.   
      
   I think the filmmakers are simply using the gore trying to distract the   
   audience from the many shortcomings of the script.   
      
   I probably don’t have to tell you that it is seldom a good sign when a   
   film sports 6 writing credits, which in this case include producer Mark   
   Altman and director Jeremy Kasten. So, apparently, a lot of people kept   
   meddling with the script, trying (but failing) to fix it.   
      
   In the end, neither the violence nor the gore work. This film fails to   
   create any dread, or any horror, chiefly because there is no set-up and   
   no context for the violence. And there are no stakes, because there is   
   no character in this film that you care about.   
      
   As you can see, I have very few good things to say about this film. And   
   if you had asked my opinion about the film before this re-watch, I would   
   probably have rated it at or below 1 out of 10. But having seen it   
   again, I tend to think of it as a 2.5 to 3 out of 10. There are great   
   visuals here (even if they are not to my taste) and there are a number   
   of decent ideas (including an innovative (if roundabout) way for killing   
   vampires) and intentions thrown into this story – but unfortunately very   
   little of it fits or works well together.   
      
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