Director: Chris Schwab
Year: 2025
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Vampire
Plot:
Waking up in an underground bunker, a soldier finds himself stuck with a group of women guarding a strange secret inside and tries to adjust to their rules and regulations that keep him from getting to the truth about a vampire queen stored at the facility as he accomplishes the mission.
Review:
Overall, this was a pretty dire effort with much going for it. Among the few likable factors within here come from the strong setup, which manages to present an intriguing apocalypse scenario on a budget, somewhat decently. The whole end-of-the-world scenario about the vampires breaking down humanity’s defenses and forcing them into using their nuclear weaponry so that their remaining forces are stuck in a remote bunker on a small island makes logical enough sense that the emerging scenario at play here has some solid potential. This one plays nicely with the idea that the stranger who washes ashore and has something off that they’re unable to pinpoint and feel like trusting allows the first half to have some intrigue over his purpose so that his manipulation into using their assistance to help overthrow the base command, secure the release of the vampire queen, and lead them on a massacre of the base has some worthwhile moments.
Outside of that, though, this one has little going for it. The potential in the story is never fully realized, setting up something interesting with the idea of the stranger arriving at the facility and imposing on the girls stationed there to perform a takeover of the facility to accomplish his mission of releasing the queen, which is central to the setup but never capitalized on. Rather than deal with the vampire getting loose and running rampant in the facility, this focuses more on building a kind of tension or uncertainty of what’s going on and debate with each other over the validity of his claims that just completely drains the film of everything going on as it’s sluggish tempo keeps everything on-screen devoid of vampire action until the final twenty minutes. It’s possible to forget the purpose of the facility and what they’re doing there at times, as it also manages to forgo the traditional introduction of the vampire queen, so that she’s barely even known at all and has little purpose or urgency at all. In keeping with the low budget on display, these elements also help keep the film's overall cost down.
Overview: */5
A disappointing and generally underwhelming effort, there are some worthwhile elements here that are wiped away by a slew of issues that are really detrimental and damaging in the end. Those with an appreciation for this kind of low-budget effort or who are curious about it will have the most to like here, while most others out there should heed extreme caution.
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