One Offbeat Gem and Three Trainwrecks
I got this DVD to upgrade my old VHS copy of Nadja, a very slow and offbeat vampire classic from 1994. With grainy B&W photography that sometimes lapses deliberately into a pixilated look, you have to be in a patient and artsy mood to get into this. But the acting by Elina Löwensohn and Peter Fonda as descendants of Dracula and Van Helsing is strong, and the mood is conveyed successfully despite a low budget. The same cannot be said for the other three movies on the disc; Undead Express and Vampire Wars are unwatchably amateurish, and The Case of the Whitechapel Vampire, while well photographed, does too much violence to the character of Sherlock Holmes to be bearable either. Still, one out of four isn't a bad batting average for this low price.
Three excellent movies and one not so good
Three of the movies in this Collector's set were truly stunning and can easily be recommended and one was a total failure. The movies I liked were The Undead Express, Vampire Wars and the Case of the Whitechapel Vampire. They were just the kind of vampire movies I'm looking for. Bloody, scary, good acting and great specialeffects. And I also liked the fact that they followed the rules what vampires can and cannot do. The one I didn't like was Nadja. I'm not a fan of David Lynch and the movie was so boring that I had to stop the DVD after just 20 minutes. But this vampire box is still a bargain and three of the movies are well worth the money that you pay for this product.
okay
I enjoyed some of these movies but a couple was out there. Joe Lando makes a great vampire as well as Peter Fonda was great.
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