A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

So, every time this turkey flies, the people that made it get money? That's just not right. Another reviewer saw it on Sci-Fi 2 years ago; that's where I saw it today. Hey, Sigh-Fie, that's enough! The dialog is truly brain-dead; my kid put more thought into her Jr-high book reports. Take a concept with potential, turn it into deadly- dull dialog for an incompetent screen play and you have a movie not worth anyone's time.In fact, I couldn't watch it all. About 40 minutes in, I turned it off to read the reviews here, curious whether anyone could find redeeming value. Uhh, not really. I agree with the reviewer who said anything more than 2 stars is fake. I did watch the last 5 minutes or so and that's why I'm going to check the *spoiler* box, though I don't think any reviewer comments could spoil this sack of cynicism.The final fight scene is like the worst pro-wrestling you've ever seen: they had to slow down the fight so they could get all the lines said. And the last scene had the head vampire lady, who had been non-fatally stabbed in the gut, turn away from the camera to pull out the blade, then turn back to the camera for a final roar, showing a sexy, unblemished tummy.Speaking of cameras, I bet that most, probably all, this was done with one camera. When they move from wide scene to closeup and back, the action doesn't match up. I could almost hear someone yell "freeze" while they brought the camera up to watch the nurse struggle in her bonds, then cut back and she wasn't moving at all. Same with some closeup snarls and fight-scene detritus.Oh, I did think the lighting was interesting; not especially good, but interesting.

I really miss watching horror movies, just a good and gory film that you can just have fun with. I saw the cover for Way of the Vampire, I mean this was just the coolest cover, it looked like a great cover with vampire hunters. So I rented it and took it home, sat down and watched it first thing, I don't know why I get my hopes up with these straight to DVD's. As always these movies are just bad, the script(which obviously had no research), the actors(who you can tell are the desperate waiters in LA, waiting for their "big break"), the effects(which could've been done by a 10 year old I know who's much better with computers), the editing(I think the editor, this must have been his first time because he went a little crazy), just everything about this movie is bad, but I'll try to explain the story.Van Helsing is given immortality to hunt down the vampire "princes" after the love of his life is turned into a vampire and he has killed her. So over a hundred years later he has lived to try to catch one vampire, Sebastien. He's got a new girlfriend at the hospital, but cannot find the prince, so when Sebastien is awaken by his vampire girlfriend to create an army of darkness, oh, what will our Van Helsing do? I guess get stung by a wasp who does apparently die by one sting, lol.Way of the Vampire is just one of those bad straight to DVD's that really sucks, believe me, I can't believe I fell for it, I know that I sometimes say that the ratings are wrong here on IMDb, but this is the rating I really wished I paid attention to the rating because I might have saved some time and money on this trash. Just trust me when I say that this is one of the worst excuses for film that you'll ever see in your life, it's worse than amateur, I just don't know how else to go on but to just warn you to stay away from this piece of trash.1/10

I intended to write this movie a proper review after watching it, but I quickly realised that it's just not worth it.There really is nothing good about this movie, it's just one big turd.The first time that I tried to watch it, I lasted 15 minutes. Then I dared my friends to watch as long as they could, and the most hardboiled daredevil friend I have lasted 20 minutes.But I finally watched it to the end and I can't say that Im happy about doing it. This movie is the definition of awful.So do yourself a favour, don't even think about watching it.Im a big fan of B-movies, but this is just too much. It's not watchable.This is what's bad about the movies: -the acting -the plot -the special effects -the camera angles -the editing -the movie!

I only spent a dollar on this movie. Jesus this thing wasn't even worth that, if I had seen this movie for free I would still feel violated, and if I had been paid to see it, the money would not have been enough.Below is my vent as I just endured this movie and I need to let it all out First of all, the holy water in her neck jugular??? WTF. And he's all "wow, you are such a genius, no one would ever think hey, holy water hurts them, they bite necks, maybe if i somehow drink this holy water and absurd it into my neck area I can kill them." Stupid, very stupid element of the film and that last line "or maybe a princess" or something of that effect, I nearly cried. That made even the holy water and wasp and training scenes seem well thought out and deserving of an Oscar.Who wrote this movie, were they in Kindergarten, but of course six year-olds are so much more intelligent than the team behind this crap, and actually have imaginations and could probably write better material, so I take that back, that is an insult to compare kindergarten children to the inbred morons who wrote this movie.None of the actors in this movie could act, it all felt very very daytime drama or school play. But of course the director must take some of the responsibility for that as well. The action scenes were embarrassing and the effects were crude and ugly, primitive, extremely half arced, just like every single element of this film.The sound effects were pathetic, that's all I will say on the matter. So moving on..The Vampires in this movie should not even be classed as that, they are degrading the entire world of fiction and it is an insult for them to be named as the likes of Lestat, Vlad deMagpyr or Bela Lugosi's classic Dracula. These are suave, charismatic, alluring, elegant and beautiful beings (but also a bit evil) the creatures shown in this movie were boring, stupid, abysmal and unoriginal.*end rant* I do really feel a lot better.Do yourselves a favour, stay away from this movie. It is not worth a single moment of your time. Go to the video store and re rent Interview with a Vampire, Underworld or the Buffy TV series instead.