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If you carry on then you will learn what the film is all about ... Your choice.
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Okay, so we start like an everyday thriller. There's a rich gang boss type chap, and a group of thug-types (although they are a pretty hopeless bunch) are sent by a third party mystery person to kidnap his 12 year old ballerina daughter to hold her for ransom. So far so good.
They end up in some old mansion somewhere, with the girl hooded and in chains in a bedroom, while the rest of the gang lounge about and wait for the ransom to be paid. The house is one they were told to go to ... and only one of them is to ever interact with the girl, no names to be used ... normal ransom stuff.But then we discover that this little girl isn't such a little girl after all. She's instead an old vampire with incredible strength and ingenuity. Her father is also a vampire, and this is a little game they play to stop them getting too bored.
The house locks down on them (shades of The House on Haunted Hill, or 13 Ghosts) and they're left to try and survive with a hungry vampire kid on their trail.
The film is great fun. It takes 30 minutes or so before the realisations start to kick in, but once it gets rolling it's very enjoyable. The deaths are great and there is A LOT of blood ... vampires explode with a very wet and messy geyser of blood (reminiscent of the vampires in Planet Terror) and some of the gang get vampirised and are then controlled by the girl ... imaginative and fun stuff!With so many vampire films out there, it's great to come across one which is different and which just rolls with the premise and takes it to its natural (or unnatural) conclusion. This is a film that I will certainly watch again.
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