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Excellent adaptation.

Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

This is my second viewing. First time in 2016 and I thought it was better then. It started out great. We have a scene of a grave with tons of fog, eerie music, and the credits. Good stuff. Then the vampire rises. Michael Pataki was a great actor. You will see him as the provoking Klingon in Star Trek Trouble with Tribbles. Where he says "The Enterprise should be hauling garbage." Then "The Enterprise should be hauled as garbage." Without Pataki's performance Tribbles would be a crappy episode. Anyway, Pataki rises from the grave. He is a brutal beast. He attacks a couple who just got engaged and were in the back of their car trying to do their thing. Pataki rips apart the car door, drags out the dude, slams him on top of a grave stone and drains him of his blood, as the girl watches. Then Pataki drags the girl into an open grave and rapes her. This is some serious crazy S***! Pataki then hides in some woman's basement, when she hears some noise and goes to investigate, she is killed. The raped girl is now in a hospital and is interviewed by the cops, and later informed that she is pregnant and that baby is not alive and should be aborted. She refuses and leaves the hospital. Meanwhile, one of the cops goes to the grave yard and is brutally killed by Pataki. The guy gets his head crushed by the grave stone, then gets his blood drained. All good stuff.So, the baby is born, not in a hospital, but in her own home with the help of a friend. Take a look at her friends face when the baby is born. This woman is all smiles, then the smile goes away and the viewer realized, yes there is something wrong here. The girls says "Why is he so gray". Next we find out that the baby is not drinking the milk. When the mother accidently cuts her finger and blood drips on the baby, the baby starts sucking the blood. This is one of the greatest scenes ever. It is a close up of the babies face with red blood dripping it sucking the blood. This is great stuff.If the movie ended here. I would rate it a solid B, B+, 9 stars.But no. We find out that the mother was feeding the baby with her blood and died young. We see the mothers shriveled dead body and the boy is now grown and it's William Smith. Now, Smith is completely miscast as this giant dude. He is pissed off that his mother is dead and wants to find and kill his raping/vampire father. Smith has apparently traveled the world chasing after his father. Next we see him entering a classroom where he makes meets a woman and her roommate. Pataki comes in, and he's the professor. The dialogue here is ok, but the movie is going down hill. Before Pataki comes into the classroom he kills a woman. After the classroom we see Pataki trying to take a book out of a library where the librarian flirts with him but refuses the book. Pataki kills her. All of this is just poor stuff. We then see Smith with the women he met in the classroom in their apartment and what we get is some dancing, some makeout, and we see Smith eats raw meat. Pataki shows up and kills one of the women and leaves her in the shower. Next there is a meeting at Pataki's mansion with 6 of the students. Nobody talks about the murdered woman. Pataki kills all of the students except Smith and one of the first girls. Smith ends up killing Pataki. And that's it. The Freaking End. What a mistake. Apparently this is from a novel and probably the novel had more background info on the vampire, because there was more detail in the movie but it all goes nowhere. Smith is miscast. He's too old for the part. And he's a freaking giant. The women had very little charisma or acting skills. Any atmosphere created in the beginning of the movie was lost after the baby was born. That's when they should have geared up the shock.So, rating is a C for a B movie. 5 stars. Next time I watch this I will shut it off after the baby is born. That movie will not disappoint.

I have decided to work on the giant pile of movies and TV shows I never want to watch and this is the lucky winner that gets to be seen first.I would have to assume it's the first time it has ever won anything.Even though the movie is very slow moving with lots of time where nothing is happening, they still don't show a lot of stuff.They make you guess at what has happened for a few minutes, then they almost explain.It's annoying but it's also the best thing about this movie.So they spend a half hour on a crazy woman who got raped by a vampire and is having it's baby.The vampire just took her into his coffin and then it just cuts to her being pregnant.I really don't see how a normal person could have thought anything sexual had happened.She acts like it's her dead boyfriends baby and says it will be normal, even though the doctor tells her it is dead.It's all so confusing and senseless and then it just cuts to the future and he's grown up and looking to kill his father.That's right, halfway through the movie they just start a different movie.Did I mention it also has horrible acting? This should never be seen by anyone.

The seventies has to be one of the worst decades in history. People looked silly and pretentious, the music was insipid, and it was the beginning of a culture of selfishness. This is a very bad vampire movie. It has no imagination to speak of and the whole thing is so sliced up cinematically that it goes nowhere. It also has the father son thing going on. The acting is dreadful. I know people are going to say that when reviewing schlock it shouldn't be taken seriously. Well, schlock can be fun too, but when the people look like they're reading their lines as they act, it just doesn't work. The worst scene in the movie is the classroom one where people sit around and talk for about fifteen minutes. It's like a real classroom. Can you think of anything more terrifying? Anyway, they could have saved the film stock and made something more interesting, like a Preparation H commercial.

Vampires that impregnate human chicks... an idea that makes no sense, but suspend your belief for a bit and you might be entertained, son. In this flick, a vampire kills a dude and then rapes a chick... but the chick gets totally pregnant and gives birth to a hybrid (like Blade or Alucard or something). And then, you know, the hybrid makes his intentions of killing the daddy clear.This film has one big failure: it was filmed with just about the lowest quality humanly possible. Very grainy footage and sound and whatnot, so until you learn to ignore it, you'll be forcing yourself against your will. I mean, it's not as cruddy as "House of Death" (aka "Death Screams")... but what is? So, yeah, there's the raping and killing vampire against his own son. The interesting twist, if that's not enough, is that from the very beginning, one of the wise and level-headed cops suspects a vampire to be responsible for the violence. Immediately after the attack on the woman, he shows her a photo of the dead man (or, undead man) and she recoils in terror. What makes him think a vampire is involved? You have to watch to see.Now, there's hope of this some day getting cleaned up and appreciated by a new generation of horror fans who want to scour the obscure titles from yesteryear. Mill Creek offers a DVD that is a poor transfer, but Unicorn video had the VHS rights... with Unicorn gone and the rights gone public, who knows where the original print is? I certainly don't. But I think with a little work, and plenty of luck, some company (Dark Sky?) will come along and snatch up the Unicorn properties and save them from obscurity like they did with "She Beast".