Do you play Vampire the Masquerade? Play in lots of vampire/gothic Live-Roleplaying? The guy who wrote this probably did. Recycles every cliche of the genre; its incredibly, over-the-top gothic. Its also one of the slowest films I've ever seen. The hero constantly says things that amount to "I could do something, but I'm to gothic to bother...I'll just let that sweet young thing over there be turned into a vampire". This is a lot of fun to make fun of at first, but eventually it overwhelms you, making this difficult to even heckle. There are also far too many side characters, who aren't developed and just seem to get in the way of what little happens. An anemic (pardon the pun ;) film at best.