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Review-I for one have been anxious about this wave I heard called “urban horror films”. We got a few tastes in the past, the big ones being Tales from the Hood and Bones. I feel any new blood we get into this genre can only help our future, case in point this indie horror film called Teeth and Blood. In the first minutes of the film I thought it was going to be like a modern day Scary Movie type spoof on the Vampire films. This film feels like an urban version of Kolchak, with the crime mystery of a diva that is killed on the film set only to have her body missing. Like the machine, the film is only halted for seconds to minutes till the role can be filled. We meet young female undercover cop Sasha Colfax, who is beautiful on the outside but inside she is a bad ass who takes no shit. She is assigned a partner some detective named Mike Hung from another precinct to help her on the case. Colfax is the new actress while Hung is a hired hand on set. Soon, the movie seems to be only part of the mystery as the city’s blood supply is starting to get lower. This film dangles a fine line between horror and crime drama, and has a few comic jabs to liven up the flow of this film. I will be honest the horror elements in this film are the weakest part of the film. I liked the crime detectives trying to solve the case parts of this film. This film for me is a step in the right direction in terms of giving us a new perspective on a genre that misses more than hits, but the things that missed for other films misses for this one as well, and that is the film takes itself too serious and feels to over-explain everything to us. Storytelling is a simple formula when effective it can work, when overdone it really feels that you do not trust your core base to follow. As a whole this film is not going to be re-inventing the wheel, but it is a positive sign that people are really thinking outside of the perimeters to give us new directions in a genre that always had one.
A diva actress is murdered on a set film. Meanwhile, the city's blood supply is mysteriously being depleted. Dets. Mike Hung and Sasha Colfax go undercover to crack the toughest mystery of their lives in a vampire-infested studio.
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This is a winner in my book!! Having done performing arts, i have a love of taking a classic tale(or what one thinks is one) and put a new spin on it!! would loved horror to have been more prominent, but it as a whole was great!! watched at 3 this morning!!(sinus got me up and this movie kept me captivated)
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