One of the best films i have seen

It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Fist of the Vampire is set in Pennsylvania & starts during 1977 late one night as a man named Reno (Len Kabasinski) witnesses two Vampires named Jade (Darian Caine) & Nicholas (Brian 'Blue Meanie' Heffron) killing a woman, shocked Reno heads straight home & calls the police but both Jade & Nicholas break into his house, attack Reno & kill his wife as the house burns to the ground around them. Decades later & the case remains unsolved as Jade, Nicholas & Reno who is now a Vampire run an illegal fighting tournament & gambling ring, anyone can enter & try to earn big money & be crown champion including undercover cops Stephen Lee (Brian Anthony Fabian) & Davidson (Cheyenne King) who take part in the tournament in order to get closer to the organisers. But the two cops soon realise that they are not dealing with ordinary criminals & are in fact up against undead Vampires...Written, produced & directed by Len Kabasinski who also has an acting role in it Fist of the Vampire is maybe the worst film I seen since Kabasinski's previous martial arts horror abomination Swamp Zombies (2005). I suppose th title Fist of the Vampire is quite cool & conjures up images of an Asian martial arts horror filming involving Vampires (which it isn't, by the way) but everything else about it is utter crap. Where do you even start to try & critically evaluate such a poor piece of filmmaking? How can I possibly hope to get across just how unrelentingly bad Fist of the Vampire actually is? The script which one might say tries to mix Fight Club (1999) & Blade (1998) is an absolute mess with no identifiable structure to it all, the plot (if you can call it that) is wafer thin & amounts to nothing more than a jumbled collection of poor set-pieces that vary between martial arts fighting & horror although the film sorely lacks on both counts. I can't believe how bad the script & plot is, I can't believe how empty & devoid of character, incident & forward momentum it is. Nothing is explained or given any sort of background, from the character's who are paper thin to the shallowness of it all. I mean the Vampires are given no background (why was Nichols dressed as a Sheriff & talking to a news crew at the start & what happened to his career in law enforcement?) as to how they became Vampires, what can or can't kill them or even why they are operating a Mortal Kombat style fighting tournament. Was it for financial gain? Did they like the power? Did they just get a kick out of watching the fights? Was it to select strong, athletic, fit & healthy victims from whom to drink blood? What were they trying to get out of it exactly? What was with the pointless subplot about rival drug dealers? Neither of the two undercover cops are given any background either, neither are fleshed out & it's not even explained as to how they became unbeatable martial arts fighters. At an hour & a half Fist of the Vampire feels like it goes on forever, seriously I was considering turning the thing off & how made it through to the end I'll never know. I don't think even the filmmakers keep track of the character's, who they are & their relevance. A complete waste of time & surely one of the very worst films ever commercially released & an abysmal way to spend an hour & a half.As well as being a conceptual mess with no structure or flow or legible plot to speak of Fist of the Vampire feels & looks like it was made by a bunch of friends just fooling around a with a camcorder, that may sound harsh but Fist of the Vampire is an incompetent eyesore of a film. There are a few gun fights (why was Lee chasing & shooting at that woman at the start again? Oh yeah, it's never explained why) & all the bullets, nozzle flashes, sparks & damage are CGI computer effects & they look embarrassingly bad. There are also some awful CGI fire effects including a car blowing up which would look bad in a computer game. There's even some terrible looking CGI blood splatter, when a film can't even afford to or be bothered to use real fake blood for even a simple bullet wound then you know your in trouble. There's not much gore & the fight scenes are laughably bad with awful choreography, the fighters & their moves are horribly stiff, awkward, poorly edited, directed & lit in some really boring fights. The sound is also awful, the sound effects are just strange & often don't match the on screen action & the terrible heavy metal style music is inappropriate & is just another annoying reason to dislike Fist of the Vampire.The production values are rock bottom, the opening sequence is supposed to feature rain but it's clearly not raining & the fake CGI rain looks awful, lighting conditions change between shots in the same scene, the sound is often terrible with ambient noise like passing cars drowning out the actor's & dialogue while the locations are ugly & look like basements most of the time. For some bizarre director Kabasinski insists on placing awful looking CGI smoke & sparks in lots of scenes for no apparent reason. The acting is atrocious too. WWF wrestler Brian Heffron makes an appearance with a silly looking beard.Fist of the Vampire is a truly terrible film, there is not one redeeming aspect to it, from the dire script with no plot to the horrendous production values which offend both the eyes & ears. Trust the pathetically low IMDb User Rating score & avoid at all costs!

It's always nice to see a low-budget effort that's not only done with a great deal of passion and enthusiasm, but also offers a funky and energetic handy-dandy combo of elements from both the action and horror genres. 1977: A man witnesses a vampire attack in a back alley. The vampires kill the man and his wife. However, the couple's son survives the attack. Thirty years later the man grows up to be Lee Southward (neatly played with rugged conviction by the brawny Brian Anthony), a tough and fearless undercover detective who infiltrates an illegal underground fighting ring that's run by the same trio of vampires who killed Lee's parents. Writer/director Len Kabasinski tackles the mean'n'lean material with a pleasingly fierce'n'frantic adrenalized style: the brisk pace, ferocious fisticuffs, a thrashin' hard rock soundtrack, the suitably rough'n'gritty cinematography, a pulsating score by Figblots and Chylum, the hyper-kinetic editing, and the copious graphic gore (blood squirts and spurts all over the place from severed jugular veins) all add up to one immensely entertaining movie. Better still, the actors portraying the vampires have a ball with their supremely evil parts: Brian Heffron makes for a fearsome head villain as ruthless leader Nicholas, gorgeous soft-core feature regular Darian Caine burns up the screen with her steamy portrayal of the wicked and predatory vampiress Jade (yes, fans, the delectable Ms. Caine also shows her delicious goods in a tasty lesbian love scene as well), and Leon South does well as the vicious and insatiable Reno. Moreover, there are nifty supporting contributions by Cheyenne King as formidable lady brawler Davidson and Victor Kuehn as Lee's pragmatic superior Agent Williams. The action set pieces are staged with real rip-roaring go-for-broke flair, with a drug deal that degenerates into a total bloodbath and the exciting climactic to-the-death confrontation between Lee and Nicholas rating as the definite stirring highlights. Granted, the dodgy CGI effects ain't too impressive or convincing, but overall this lively and frenetic item sizes up as good trashy Grade B fun just the same.

Killer Wolf gain has hit a home run with their latest film "Fist of the Vampire" Those who have read my blogs or reviews know that I personally love the films they put out in Killer Wolf Films and this one was no exception. Once again this is what I love about independent horror films and what I loathe about most Hollywood ones. Len and his crew put together films for one purpose only.....to entertain you. It's not about making a art house flick or getting on Sundance Channel but in making sure the audience had a good time watching their movie. Fist combines really scary vampires with a dash of Fight Club mixed in for good measure. Being an exceptional martial artist Len populates his films with many other exceptional fighters. Brian Anthony plays a DEA agent who infiltrates the illegal underworld fighting den run by Brian "Blue Meanie" Heffron, Len (credited as Leon South ) and Darian Caine. Unfortunately for him it isn't just about illegal gambling and drugs but the folks who run the ring are in fact vampires. The film was shot with great cinematography and really good acting to boot. Killer Wolf fans will get a kick out of seeing Rene Porada in her first bad girl role as well as Brenna Lee Roth. If you are fan of Killer Wolf this movie will exceed you expectations and if you have never seen one check it out. You won't be disappointed.

I watched "Fist of the Vampire" last night, and it's not a 10 but it's certainly not a 1. So, I have to wonder about the ratings I'm seeing here. Were they made by people who need to watch more movies so they have something to measure against? Or were they made by users who were being disingenuous?The screener I saw had some problems with sound mixing (much of the dialogue was muddled while the foley artist's "meaty thwacks" during the fight scenes came across with crystal clarity), the fight scenes were well filmed but under-rehearsed (they all screamed "choreographed" to me) and there were many places where just a few seconds trimmed here and would have the difference between a scene going on for too long and it being just right.Oh, and they used that animated bullet waaaaay too much at the beginning of the film. It was a neat effect the first time, but it got less impressive as it was repeated.However, the acting was better than what I've come to expect from films at this level, the use of CGI and blue-screen effects was also pretty decent (even if I still don't know what all those sparks during the final showdown between Reno and Lee were all about), and the story was pretty solid and flowed nicely. There were no surprises in it, but it chugged along at a good pace."Fist of the Vampire" is a low 5 on my scale, and I wish I could understand what inspires such love or hatred that would cause someone to rate it a 10 or a 1.