The Vampire Conspiracy

January. 01,2005      NR
Rating:
2.8
Trailer Synopsis Cast

Five people are abducted by a maniacal vampire and put into a deadly maze of wits and endurance. If they make it through alive, they'll be placed back in the game - forever - as bloodthirsty slaves pursuing the next round of victims. The group must discover the connection between them to solve complex clues and survive the band of slaves to escape a twisted game of predator and prey.

Reviews

BallWubba
2005/01/01

Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.

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Voxitype
2005/01/02

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

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Allison Davies
2005/01/03

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

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Marva
2005/01/04

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

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Tito Q
2005/01/05

There have been vary few movies I have watched that I have been unable to see through to the end. This is without a doubt the worst of those movies. I'm not even sure this can be classified as a movie. Movies inherently provide some level of entertainment, this provides none. I can look past the poor acting, low video quality, sub-par special effects, and high school quality sets. It is after all a low budget movie. What amazed me was the ability to take what seemed like an intriguing plot line and put minimal effort into expanding on it. There is very little flow to the movie. The explanation for why they are in the situation they are makes little sense. One moment it seems like the characters have known each other for years the next it seems like they just met, and back again. It's only minutes into this movie before you realize your time would be better spent watching grass grow. But as bad as all of that was. That wasn't what caused me to shut the movie off. I doubt that I'm overstating this, every third word was F***. F*** this, F*** that, F*** you. When a character was mad they would increase the swearing: scared - increase swearing, confused - increase swearing, happy - increase swearing, etc... All I can assume is when they would forget their line (assuming there actually was a script) they would just throw an F bomb in there to fill the silence. This movie would have been more aptly titled "F***ing Vampires F*** F***... ...F***" Maybe they could have just stood in a circle with a vampire in the centre and swore at each other for 90 minutes.You should probably watch it...

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MarplotRedux
2005/01/06

I'm a fan of low, low, low budget movies. In this one, almost the entire set was of what I assume were plasterboard corridors. Fine. The film's colors kept fading to black, white and red. Fine. The actors and actresses were inexperienced. Since they tried hard, fine. So why did I give it such a low rating? (1) I won't swear to this, but would estimate that at least 25% of the words that the characters spoke were forms of the f-word. This gets monotonous. When I'm finally able to finance Inconsiderate Fatheads From Outer Space, I shall have the alien invaders repeatedly saying "carnal knowledge", "sexual congress", and "fornication". The worst that the Good Guys shall say will be "darn", "shucks" and, in dire extremity, "poo". (2) Another quarter or so of the remaining dialog was incomprehensible, even though I had the sound turned way up. So, although I was able to follow the overall plot, many of its details never registered. All that said, that overall plot was novel, the extras who portrayed the undead were well made up. They snarled, crawled (when necessary) and bit well. I was surprised that when a fairly blunt, though jagged, wooden spike was thrown at them it would go through them so easily, but then their bodies may have decomposed quite a bit. The best thing in the film was the music. Sad to say, even it lacked.

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Claire Mojave
2005/01/07

As I'm writing this there are three other reviews posted all praising this as a low budget gem. I'm here to tell you either something is rotten somewhere or they didn't see the same film I saw.The plot was something about a vampire trapping five people in a maze and playing games with them, not a bad premise but not carried through very well. The films biggest problem was the quality of the acting -- I now know that I could act in a vampire movie, yes even I who can hardly act pleased believably when somebody gives me a chartreuse sweater for Christmas, who sweats blood at the very thought of public speaking. To get to the point (and don't whine at my ramblings, if you watched the movie you know how to waste time already and if you didn't I'm saving you from losing an important block of time better spent clipping your toenails) the acting was C- for a high school drama class. It was so awful I felt sorry for the actors. Really it ... well it stank, a lot.I gave it two stars instead of one because even with the horrible acting it had a bit of style. The bleak and moody atmosphere was pretty nice but couldn't make up for the lack of coherence in the story itself and nothing could make up for the ghastly acting.

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flatline_HQ
2005/01/08

The concept for this film is awesome, and the plot was quite interesting to say the least. I was a little unsatisfied with the lack of visuals and poor fight sequences; I can understand they didn't have a lot to work with as far as the local goes being that it was all shot in studio but the fight sequences were too conservative and looked as though they belonged on stage and not on screen; I see less ghost-punches in wrestling.That all being said I think it is an incredibly fresh and new look for Vampire films and given a bigger budget and some good lookin' B-list actors this film could be incredible!

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