Dampyr lacks some money for makeup, costumes, special effects, so certain movie fans may scorn it. Superficiality is not my problem, though, as the story is solid:
In a modern world, reminding of the Russia-Ukraine War, soldiers stumble into a nest of vampires and their solution is force-recruiting a fraudulent (scammer) vampire hunter to save them.
The vampire hunter is born a Dampyr, a half-vampire who herein is more akin to an anti-vampire, as his blood can dissolve them like the holy water of older movies.
And, that is what his father, a vampire master losing against another vampire master (Lord of the Night) had intended: Unleashing the Dampyr at risk of self-destruction (father), so to thwart the triumph of his arch-enemy kinda competition.
The actors invest efforts to play their roles well, and while the story is not superb, it offers us watchers the chance to invest into an extension, a sequel.
We get a typical, cheap, and cliche vampire story, but with a background that can be extended. We get the notions of redemption, coexistence, and friendship (or allies of convenience & by necessity), when a mortal soldier, the Dampyr, and a vampire woman team-up to stop the tyrant Lord of the Night from enslaving them or drinking their blood.
In the last 25 years few vampire movies did any better, and this one did not pester with LGBTQ-pleasing or racial-baiting at all. It IS a bit slow, though, as watching at 100% playback speed still had boring moments.
If fans fund the sequel better, we can expect a 8.5 stars in story, action, vampire-authenticity, and character development. Kudos!
In a modern world, reminding of the Russia-Ukraine War, soldiers stumble into a nest of vampires and their solution is force-recruiting a fraudulent (scammer) vampire hunter to save them.
The vampire hunter is born a Dampyr, a half-vampire who herein is more akin to an anti-vampire, as his blood can dissolve them like the holy water of older movies.
And, that is what his father, a vampire master losing against another vampire master (Lord of the Night) had intended: Unleashing the Dampyr at risk of self-destruction (father), so to thwart the triumph of his arch-enemy kinda competition.
The actors invest efforts to play their roles well, and while the story is not superb, it offers us watchers the chance to invest into an extension, a sequel.
We get a typical, cheap, and cliche vampire story, but with a background that can be extended. We get the notions of redemption, coexistence, and friendship (or allies of convenience & by necessity), when a mortal soldier, the Dampyr, and a vampire woman team-up to stop the tyrant Lord of the Night from enslaving them or drinking their blood.
In the last 25 years few vampire movies did any better, and this one did not pester with LGBTQ-pleasing or racial-baiting at all. It IS a bit slow, though, as watching at 100% playback speed still had boring moments.
If fans fund the sequel better, we can expect a 8.5 stars in story, action, vampire-authenticity, and character development. Kudos!