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Okay, Bloodsuckers is not a good or great movie, or at least to me. If anything I found it decent and reasonably entertaining, especially compared to other low-budget movies I've seen recently. Bloodsuckers does actually have some note-worthy performances, Joe Lando, who was the best and only good thing about Meteor Apocalypse, is decent, Michael Ironside while underused does a nice job as the villain and Natassia Malthe, complete with a wardrobe that completely flatters her figure, is incredibly sexy and not too bad acting-wise either. The story is also an improvement, true it is predictable and not exactly original(apart from the interesting angle of vampire mind sex) but unlike most other low-budget movies I've recently seen it's actually engaging too, and I say the same thing about the action scenes and the gore. Where Bloodsuckers does fall down is with the rest of the cast aren't as good, either bland or irritating(Leanne Adachi manages to be both those things), the script is of rather cheesy quality, the human characters are stereotypical and not all of them are easy to identify with and the cheap effects for the vampires(who themselves as a whole lacked charisma and menace mostly). Overall, reasonably entertaining but one with many flaws. 5/10 Bethany Cox

I got this movie on a 4-film "Vampire Collector's Set" DVD under the title "Vampire Wars: Battle for the Universe," though the opening credits of the actual film identify it as "Bloodsuckers," which quite frankly is a cooler (and less wordy) title. The movie itself was pretty much what I expected: a low budget B-film. Fortunately, I love stuff like this and "Vampire Wars"/"Bloodsuckers" turned out to be a surprisingly cool mish-mash of the horror, sci-fi and action genres, bolted together from parts of the "Blade" series, a little bit of "Firefly," and some "Aliens" as well.The good news: it's the 23rd century and mankind has at last discovered humanoid life on other planets. The bad news: all of the humanoid life on those other planets is vampiric in nature and wants to eat us, prompting the creation of the "V-SAN" corporation (for "Vampire SANitation"), which sends out teams of bad-asses (think the Colonial Marines from "Aliens") from planet to planet weeding out vampire nests wherever they threaten humanity's interests. Damien Underwood is a newbie on a V-SAN crew who inherits the captain's chair after his commander becomes Vampire Chow early in the movie. He struggles to gain respect in his new role, despite his lack of command experience and the fact that most of his crew (including a redneck in a cowboy hat who predates Woody Harrelson's look in "Zombieland" by a few years, and a butch lesbo who recalls Cpl. Vazquez of "Aliens") blames him for the captain's demise. Fortunately, Underwood does have the support of one crew member -- Quintana, an amazingly hot vampire/human hybrid who reads minds, looks great in an "Underworld" style leather cat suit, and who can kick massive amounts of alien-vampire ass. This fearsome foursome travels to a space station in response to a distress signal, only to find the human population destroyed when they arrive. Turns out they've been lured there by a group of humans who have taken the vampires' side in the war, claiming that Earthlings are the real predatory creatures in the universe. Genre legend Michael Ironside makes a brief cameo, hamming it up in a quick-paycheck role as some sort of vampire overlord in cahoots with the turncoat humans, and eventually lots of big guns go off, and we get severed limbs and gore galore.True "vampire" movie fans will probably hate this movie as this so-called "vamps" act more like zombies (i.e. they eat the flesh of their victims rather than drink their blood). They also tend to dress like biker-gang rejects from a "Mad Max" movie. It is interesting that there appear to be numerous types of vampire races in the Universe (one in-joke refers to two different races as "the Voorhees" and "the Leatherfaces") depending on what planet the V-SANS agents visit, causing me to wonder if this film was intended as the first in a series (or perhaps a TV series pilot -- I did notice that even though the film is quite violent and bloody, language is toned down and though I really hoped to see Quintana strip off that leather bodysuit, no such luck).As with most of the movies on these "4 Film Collections" that I've seen, "Bloodsuckers/Vampire Wars" is worth viewing if you've got a taste for goofy, low-budget fare; those who prefer their horror on the more serious side can safely skip it.

Bloodsuckers is set in the year 2210 where mankind has spread out into space, unfortunately most of space is occupied by various different breeds of blood sucking Vampires. That's where the likes of Captain Churchill (Joe Lando) & his crew come in, you see he leads a team of soldiers killing Vampires wherever they find them. A sort of intergalactic Vampire sanitation service if you can imagine such a thing. They relentlessly fight the good fight against alien Vampires for a crappy wage but at least they get job satisfaction...Retitled to Vampire Wars: Battle for the Universe when released on DVD this made-for-TV Canadian production was executive produced, written & directed by Matthew Hastings & I have to say I didn't think it was too bad, it certainly passed an hour & a half harmlessly enough if nothing else. The script mixes a bit of Aliens (1986), a touch of Starship Troopers (1997) with a smidgen of John Carpenter's Vampires (1998) & adds a dash of Blade (1998) & starts of very brightly with a surprisingly gory & fast moving opening twenty odd minutes, unfortunately the film can't really sustain this & never recaptures the heights of this opening sequence. My overwhelming problem with Bloodsuckers is that there is a definite lack of story here, the film just goes from one sub plot to another & never really settles down into one consistent story. For instance it starts out with the Vampire hunters hunting down some Vampires & you think this will be the common theme throughout the film but no, then there's a rescue mission on a planet where they are almost overrun by Vampires but nothing long lasting becomes of it, the film then introduces a new kind of parasitic worm like Vampire & again I thought this is what the film is going to be about but again it quickly forgets about it & shifts onto yet another different race of Vampires & yet another different planet. The whole film feels very fragmented & disjointed as a result. The character's are awful clichés & a few of them are very annoying especially the ugly Chinese girl Rosa who thinks she's 'hard' & is basically a Vasquez from Aliens rip-off only not as good.Director Hastings does alright, despite what people on the IMDb say I thought the special effects are surprisingly good with reasonably good looking CGI computer effects which aren't overused & I was pleased to see all the blood & gore effects were actually physical on set make-up effects. This has a pleasing amount of blood & gore, from bodies with legs ripped off, stakings, blood spurts, gory gunshot wounds, Vampire worms bursting out of people's chests & severed limbs Bloodsuckers is a pretty gory film & that's a good thing in my book. There are a few homages in here as well, in particular one set of Vampires are called Leatherfaces as in Leatherface from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre films while another race are know as the Voorhees which is obviously a nod to Jason Voorhees the zombie killer from the Friday the 13th films, or then again maybe it's just a coincidence?With a modest budget of about $1,700,000 Bloodsuckers is well made, the futuristic sets are pretty good & as already mentioned the effects are more than satisfactory. Shot in British Colombia in Canada. The acting isn't good, the usually brilliant Michael Ironside is only in for about 10 minutes & he gives a terrible performance but he's no worse than anyone else & he's got every right to be p*ssed off if this is the sort of crap he's been reduced to. A special mention for Leanne Adachi as Rosa who not only gives an awful performance but makes her character so irritating & unlikable you want her to die, horribly (the character that is, not the actress!).Bloodsuckers is a better film than I had any right to expect, it's not perfect but as a one off watch to pass the time it's reasonably good, gory fast moving fun. It 'borrows' heavily from other films but that gives it a certain familiarity.

This certainly isn't Goodfellas, but it's damn fine fare for what it is: a made-for-TV movie about vampires in space and the slayers who hunt them. But it isn't cheesy and doesn't try to be campy. It's a straightforward sci-fi/horror flick with rich and engaging characters (pared down to archetypes for the time allotted, of course), a fully-developed setting (again, pared for time, but the rich background is obvious in the vampiric languages that are apparently more than gobbledigook and the information given on planets and positions, etc.), a very rapid pace that keeps the story moving without turning into a music video, and pitch-perfect cinematography and direction.It is not flashy or showy, but it's certainly not "sock puppets and CGI." In fact, there is almost none of either. The SFX are actually dependent on make-up, sets, lighting, and acting. Not that there is much SFX to speak of. The focus is on the characters and plot development and both shine. Unlike the aforementioned Buffy and its blatant, cheeseball camp.Obviously set up for series development, I'm shocked and saddened they didn't pursue it. This would make a killer series.