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3/10
Anne Curtis is wasted
sean_pak21528 April 2021
Anyone who has followed the prolific career of famous Filipina actress Anne Curtis knows that she has a lot of talent. She has been nominated for more than a dozen of acting awards and has won a few. From small scale dramas and comedies to larger budget action movies and thrillers, from her days as a child actress to her most adult roles, in countless films and series, Curtis has showed off an impressive range and star presence, almost always a charismatic performer. Which makes her performance here all the more disappointing, because she isn't given many lines and isn't called on to do much besides look pretty and intense.

Director Francis dela Torre began his career in the film industry as a cinematographer and camera operator, but he is much less experienced as a writer. This becomes apparent right away. Visually, while not exactly beautiful, it is filled with interesting shot choices and color usage. Dela Torre was a co-director of photography here and the results are decent. The script, on the other hand, also by dela Torre, is a complete mess and not much better than a typical direct-to-video flick. Mediocre pacing, uninteresting and messy plot development, boring characters. The performances are also uniformly mediocre. I'm not really a fan of vampire stories so they have to be especially strong for me to appreciate them. And this is pretty silly even for a vampire movie.
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1/10
Sucky Film
sampaioana7 December 2018
It's a ridiculous movie. Poor acting, boring, no real plot.
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2/10
Bloody Nonsense
ksharpavon6 February 2021
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I watched this whole movie through hoping to find some point or reason for ANYTHING that was happening and came up with nothing. There's no explanation as to why this vamp girl is supposed to be so special, or why Jeremiah is driving her around. Ok fine between the two of them there is some sort of attraction, but why? Neither seems to have any redeeming qualities at all. Bill, who is sent out by the head vampire dude to kill Jerr and bring this vamp girl back is all bang and no bite. He repeatedly has the chance to fulfill his mission, since he magically always knows where our hero and vamp chick are hiding out, but apart from some idle threats he just lets them go? And the ending, wow. We expect some epic fight scene between Jeremiah and Roman but all we get is a mutual scream of rage from both of them, a drawn blade, and then the scene ends. Cut to the white room now painted from floor to ceiling with blood which looks more stupid than gory. And of course Bill is there to stop whatever blood ritual that Jerr and his vamp girlfriend are supposed to be doing to reverse her transformation. A transformation she keeps waffling back and forth about the whole movie. She wants to be cured, and then she doesn't, kill me, save me.. she just can't make up her darn mind. In this blood painted room almost everyone meets their end, so it's rather anticlimactic and unsatisfying. The closing shot has her wandering alone in a sort of daze down a highway in another ridiculous leather outfit that she seems to favor throughout the whole movie. Cue the melodramatic music and then fade to black. WTF did I just watch?
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1/10
waste of time and money
mattyyyyyy2 May 2020
Worst film ever seen. poor acting. extremely boring.
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2/10
Decent special effects but not much more...
balthesaur3 January 2022
Ugh... this one is a bit of a dumpster fire. The story starts off like it's already in progress; there is nothing really explaining why the characters are doing what they are and no prologue. You have to decipher it yourself through the movie. Characters die, but there is no connection to them and their three minute screen time.

The vampires (since they aren't directly referred to as such) have fairly neat special effects to display their urges, but that is the only redeeming quality about this movie.

It's one to skip. Unless you want to regret drudging through 80minutes of your life wondering '...but why, though?'
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9/10
Good vampire & Good story
sarmadsaad-6628819 May 2020
Should be movies vampire like this, I loved this movie, It is Amazing story love Vampire for every moment.
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10/10
Blood Ransom : This is how Vampire movies should be made
jaysonantipolo3 November 2014
A very dark, gritty and bloody take on the vampire mythos, Blood Ransom is one of my favorite in this genre. It's sexy and very violent, which is how these kinds of movies are supposed to be. In a generation where you only see watered down PG-13 vampire flicks, I this one stands out. The performances are quite good, especially Anne Curtis and Alexander Dreymon. They look so perfect together. There's something between them that makes them so believable as two people with eternal love for each other. I must also say that Anne Curtis is so perfect in this role. Her gaze, as everyone who have seen the movie said, is so stunning and hypnotizing. Caleb Hunt is also terrifying in his role. He is a very antagonist and really pumps up the tension. Director Francis Dela Torre succeeded in all levels in this film despite the budget constraints. I especially love the final shot of the film. Love seeing Crystal walking alone the deserted highway, feeling and enjoying the sun. That image was the best. Two Thumbs up!
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8/10
A slow romp for me, but I like the vampire.
bbickley13-921-586644 November 2014
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A good vampire concept that was a little too poetic and I got lost in some of the subtly of the film. On the surface the film is about a girl who gets kidnapped by the criminal friends of her limo driver, a man she has develop feelings for, but the event opens up a string of events when it turns out that the girl's value is as a vampire who will become full fledged once she kills the driver. It's very romantic for a vampire movie. This is were I get lost. Thought the plot is interesting, it past by to slowly for my taste.

Of course this could have just been a promotional fault as they used the kidnapping to attract audiences.

I though the special effects were cool. The blood viens on the vamps pop out whenever they are ready to feed. the movie also had these moments of after violence, were instead of showing us what happen they showed us after the fact which I thought was more hunting.

Overall, it's an interesting addiction to the vampire genre, but not my fav.
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