Rebecca (Maria Karlsen), her boyfriend Mads (Tomas Villum Jensen) and party-girl friend Charlotte (Mette Louise Holland) decide to spend the night in a creepy mansion, former home of Rebecca's occult-obsessed grandmother. They sit around sipping wine and read from a book called "Nattens Engel," meaning we're in for lots and lots of flashbacks.
"Experienced" vampire Rico Moritz appears young (Christian Grenvall) or old (Erik Holmey), can morph into a (small or giant) bat or rat, can be killed with a special dagger and has been terrorizing the area for over a century. Three main story lines zoom back and forth from 1850 to "a few years ago" back to present day and involve the fates of various people who've crossed Rico's path over the years, including 19th Century witch hunters, a gun-totting group of young vampire hunters and a woman he rapes to sire his offspring. The finale returns to Rebecca and Co. where blood revives Rico (again) and, in a really amazing (and weird!) finale, an angel arrives to take the troubled ghoul to heaven!
Although it SHOULD have been subtitled (the dubbing never matches the lips), you can tell it was a major release in Germany. ANGEL has a high budget look, the actors and FX are good, the music score (by the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra!) is elegant and the action/horror scenes are well directed. It's entertaining despite the flaws, fluctuations in tone and confusion (this thing even goes to Peru at one point!). Fangoria handled the U.S. video release.
"Experienced" vampire Rico Moritz appears young (Christian Grenvall) or old (Erik Holmey), can morph into a (small or giant) bat or rat, can be killed with a special dagger and has been terrorizing the area for over a century. Three main story lines zoom back and forth from 1850 to "a few years ago" back to present day and involve the fates of various people who've crossed Rico's path over the years, including 19th Century witch hunters, a gun-totting group of young vampire hunters and a woman he rapes to sire his offspring. The finale returns to Rebecca and Co. where blood revives Rico (again) and, in a really amazing (and weird!) finale, an angel arrives to take the troubled ghoul to heaven!
Although it SHOULD have been subtitled (the dubbing never matches the lips), you can tell it was a major release in Germany. ANGEL has a high budget look, the actors and FX are good, the music score (by the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra!) is elegant and the action/horror scenes are well directed. It's entertaining despite the flaws, fluctuations in tone and confusion (this thing even goes to Peru at one point!). Fangoria handled the U.S. video release.