Night Teeth | 2021 Halloween Movies

Netflix has been all over the place this year. We’ve seen good movies, terrible movies, foreign movies, and things that want to be movies but aren’t. But we haven’t had a monster movie, per se. No One Gets Out Alive is the closest we have come. As you can see from the poster, Night Teeth is a vampire movie. Is it a good one though?

In the Los Angeles area, vampires have co-existed peacefully with humans thanks to a centuries old truce that says vampires can only feed on people that consent. Victor (Alfie Allen) is a vampire that has grown bored of the truce. Intending to kill all of the vampires in power, he sends his girlfriend, Zoe (Lucy Fry), and her best friend, Blaire (Debby Ryan), into Los Angeles as a distraction. The girls hire peacekeeper Jay (Raúl Castillo) to drive them for the night but Jay has to save his girlfriend from Victor. Jay’s brother, Benny (Jorge Lendeborg Jr), takes his place. Benny didn’t know what he was getting himself into.

I’m a little confused about what to say about Night Teeth. As a movie, it was good. But it wasn’t a good vampire movie. A lot of the actiony parts of the movie either took place off-screen or far in the background of the shot. There aren’t even a lot of scenes of drinking blood. Well, there’s scenes of drinking blood from glasses but there’s only one real scene of vampires drinking from a human. It’s almost like the vampire part of the story was an after-thought.

Instead of an action-packed vampire thriller, we are given a romantic drama. I would argue that the main plot of the story is the growing affection between Blaire and Benny. The story really is a little Romeo & Juliet-ish. Coming at it from that direction, it is a decent movie. But if they were going for a romantic movie, there should have been a bit more romance in it. There’s a lot of like half-glances and smirky smiles at each other with only one actual kissing scene. I just think they should have tried harder to show each other that they were interested instead of spending all their time hiding it from Zoe.

It’s a fine movie to watch if you have nothing else to do. Just be warned that it is a vampire movie without any real bite to it. Well, there is a cameo from Megan Fox. I guess that is something…

JDorama review: RH Plus

Title: RH Plus Broadcast dates: 1/2/08 - 3/26/08 Number of episodes: 13 Genre: Supernatural drama Cast: Miura Yuu, Tochihara Rakuto, Ojima Naoya, Takano Hassei Plot: Four vampires, living together as a family, secretly help the police with unsolved cases. What is good: The change in eye color when they "vamp out" is pretty awesome. What is bad: The plot gets annoying after the first few episodes. Letter rating: C- Overall: I really wanted to like this drama. After all, vampires are awesome. Unfortunately, RH Plus is very heavy on the 'drama' aspect and not in a good way. Makoto (Yuu) was abandoned as a child, which the writing wants to beat you with every single episode. We get it. He had a crappy childhood. It didn't really need 12 episodes to attempt to overcome it. On top of that, the acting is cheesy at best. As much as I wanted it to get better, it just didn't.

TV review: Being Human

I watched a lot of BBC America this past week. This includes the Sunday night season premiere of Being Human. The commercials had me interested from the get-go so I greedily tuned in.

The show itself is a little weird. Basically, a werewolf, a vampire and a ghost end up as roommates. The werewolf (George) and the vampire (Mitchell) had an established friendship before the show begins. Anna the ghost, however, already occupies the house they are going to rent. It is where she died. George and Mitchell also work together at the local hospital. The hospital had an isolation room where George could spend his "time of the month" and, well, we all know why vampires like hospitals. Though Mitchell is more of the 'I don't drink human blood' type of vampire so he tries to keep the blood-sucking type away from the patients.

While I think the show has a good premise and has potential, the first episode had a bit too much information shoved into it. Instead of taking the time to introduce our main characters and their quirks, they felt the need to introduce all of the side characters up-front. For example, Lauren (another vampire) could have waited an episode or two before coming into the fold. I understand why the writers wanted to shove as much information at us as possible. After all, you never really know how long your show will last. But too much information at once isn't good either. Let the story unfold on its own. If the show gets canceled before everything is revealed, then perhaps it wasn't a very good story to begin with. However, I think this IS a good story and could use the sprinkling of information well.