Heading off on an annual tradition, a group of friends arrives at a cabin in the woods for a fun weekend only for one to get bitten by a strange creature and when he suddenly starts to develop strange abilities and sets out to use them to right the wrongs and protect his family.
Frankly, this was quite a terrible effort. Among the films' many problems is the fact that there's just way too much time wasted here as this one is simply way too long. There are way too many scenes here that go on far longer than they should or should have been completely eliminated altogether, from how long it takes to get ready for their trip to the exploits of the group at the cabin goofing around where they're joking around playing cards as the others look on in the car outside and the scenes of the change when he returns home makes for a slow and sluggish beginning that drags the film out endlessly. Likewise, other scenes that can be removed altogether include the truly lame exhibition at the nightclub where he shows up to take out the guy harassing his daughter and her friends with a ludicrous martial arts display, the interminably long dinner sequence at the restaurant where everyone goes around for what feels like forever talking about business before they start telling jokes to each other that takes up more time or the sequence involving him singing a full-on karaoke mix at a nightclub really come together to draw this one out. By managing to feature all these scenes that could've been trimmed down or flat-out removed altogether, the film is rather light on actual horror action which is another slight issue, keeping this one focused so heavily on the mafia lifestyle that there's little need for being a vampire as this one almost could remove that aspect and change the story much if at all. Very rarely do we actually get any idea what he is since he never seems to fall under the behavioral traits of the creature, never seems to show any need to feast on blood and never has any real need to be that creature since there's no mention of him being one. The only scene remotely related to the disease features a cool idea, but it's completely forgotten about and never mentioned again, and with a minor rewrite at the end, this one offers up absolutely nothing that makes this needing to be placed in the genre. This even offers no idea of how he got to be that way, with the bat being the only hint of anything going on but even that raises far more questions than it answers and the whole incident is immediately dropped right after it's brought up. Added together with abysmal production values that really highlight how terrible and cramped in the entire film feels, it has a ton of problems that really have little means of being overlooked. The main thing here is the gore, which is still shrouded in shadows but this one still has a few decent and bloody moments scattered throughout the finale where he goes on the rampage to actually get his revenge. However, this one has absolutely nothing of value here.
Rated Unrated/R: Extreme Graphic Language and Mild Violence.
Frankly, this was quite a terrible effort. Among the films' many problems is the fact that there's just way too much time wasted here as this one is simply way too long. There are way too many scenes here that go on far longer than they should or should have been completely eliminated altogether, from how long it takes to get ready for their trip to the exploits of the group at the cabin goofing around where they're joking around playing cards as the others look on in the car outside and the scenes of the change when he returns home makes for a slow and sluggish beginning that drags the film out endlessly. Likewise, other scenes that can be removed altogether include the truly lame exhibition at the nightclub where he shows up to take out the guy harassing his daughter and her friends with a ludicrous martial arts display, the interminably long dinner sequence at the restaurant where everyone goes around for what feels like forever talking about business before they start telling jokes to each other that takes up more time or the sequence involving him singing a full-on karaoke mix at a nightclub really come together to draw this one out. By managing to feature all these scenes that could've been trimmed down or flat-out removed altogether, the film is rather light on actual horror action which is another slight issue, keeping this one focused so heavily on the mafia lifestyle that there's little need for being a vampire as this one almost could remove that aspect and change the story much if at all. Very rarely do we actually get any idea what he is since he never seems to fall under the behavioral traits of the creature, never seems to show any need to feast on blood and never has any real need to be that creature since there's no mention of him being one. The only scene remotely related to the disease features a cool idea, but it's completely forgotten about and never mentioned again, and with a minor rewrite at the end, this one offers up absolutely nothing that makes this needing to be placed in the genre. This even offers no idea of how he got to be that way, with the bat being the only hint of anything going on but even that raises far more questions than it answers and the whole incident is immediately dropped right after it's brought up. Added together with abysmal production values that really highlight how terrible and cramped in the entire film feels, it has a ton of problems that really have little means of being overlooked. The main thing here is the gore, which is still shrouded in shadows but this one still has a few decent and bloody moments scattered throughout the finale where he goes on the rampage to actually get his revenge. However, this one has absolutely nothing of value here.
Rated Unrated/R: Extreme Graphic Language and Mild Violence.