Director: Adam Sherman
Year: 2026
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Vampire
Plot:
After hearing strange reports, a former soldier working as a Black Ops mercenary is tasked with taking out a special coven of vampires who are using modern dating apps to find and collect victims, eventually finding their lifestyle far too tempting to complete her mission the more she knows them.
Review:
This was a slightly disappointing but overall watchable enough genre effort. One of the better factors here is the way this manages to go in-depth on the appealing lifestyle of the various coven members, which turns them into a more likable squad as this goes along. The whole purpose of her mission, to get close to them when she finally joins the group and starts to get a handle on the various personalities of the group, who are explored in detail as we get to see them each interact in numerous meet-ups and dates that are taking place around the city, serves to generate a solid enough starting point. With the girls given a great deal of personality in how they deal with being undead, as some openly embrace the wilder aspects of seducing strange men or women, while others are more laid-back and reserved about the experience, it provides a nice dynamic that’s matched by the constant attempts at integrating the hunter storyline into the mix to help set up the story quite nicely.
There’s also the rather fun series of feeding scenes here that try to paint the group as bloodthirsty and ravenous, with just enough seductive charm to bring their prey to them. Opening on the use of the girls employing technology to their benefit by setting up a date with a customer, only to then rip him to pieces in a torrent of bloodshed, gets this off to a great start with the right kind of expectations usually found here. Other scenes of the girls finding dates in restaurants or nightclubs and seducing them to feed later on are a great touch to add some wholly impressive setpieces where they rip their prey to pieces while feeding, and it all leads into the decision to take the friends out for a trip to relax and generate some wild action scenes showing them toying with and killing their victims. This leads into the finale, which offers up a stellar series of confrontations with the hunter and remaining vampire squaring off in a gruesome, bloody fashion, giving this some worthwhile factors.
There are some pretty big drawbacks to this one that hold it down. The main drawback with the film is a bizarre decision to have one of the most lifeless, bland, and utterly grating characters in the film try to provide a voiceover narration in one of the worst choices to do so. Raspy, breathless, and utterly devoid of emotion in what’s supposed to be a brooding, somber lead, this ends up making the film a complete slog to get through with the kind of atmosphere this generates here, as everything is so useless as offering any kind of coherence with the ridiculously campy remainder of the film. The action scenes and vampire attacks here are played far more over-the-top and cheesy in spirit, so to then go for this gritty, hard-edged style of narration that’s supposed to make this figure a worthy type to go through this setup. Combined with some immensely confusing characters who don’t need to be there as they stretch the running time out quite heavily, these all bring this one down overall.
Overview: ***/5
A generally likable if somewhat troublesome vampire feature, there’s a lot to like here that makes this interesting while being brought down by some pretty damaging and rather strong issues. Those with an appreciation for this kind of genre effort or who are curious about it will want to give it a shot, while most others out there might want to heed caution.
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