There was an amateur feeling to the production values of this routine vampire film. The long musical interludes and interminable montages of graveyard scenes slowed down the pace to a rate similar to gridlock traffic in L. A. The conceptual approach first appeared to be satire, but it soon lapsed into a standard bloodsuckers gore fest.
The film included a subplot of a silly college production of Shakespeare's "Macbeth" with the lead character Leah cast in the role of Macbeth. James Franco played the director who simply sat in the audience and watched rehearsals without doing any directing. Leah was cast in the role of Macbeth and looked hopelessly adrift playing the role of power-hungry Scotsman. Apparently, the concept was that Macbeth and Lady Macbeth were lesbians.
Was the Macbeth theater production intended to be parallel to the main plot about Leah's love relationship with the vampire Pearl? If so, it was hopelessly confused.
The final stretch of the film was a series of vampire clichés. While a university professor had lectured about Bram Stoker and Christina Rosetti, the filmmakers' racy, sensationalized choices were dreary and unappealing in this unsuccessful film.
The film included a subplot of a silly college production of Shakespeare's "Macbeth" with the lead character Leah cast in the role of Macbeth. James Franco played the director who simply sat in the audience and watched rehearsals without doing any directing. Leah was cast in the role of Macbeth and looked hopelessly adrift playing the role of power-hungry Scotsman. Apparently, the concept was that Macbeth and Lady Macbeth were lesbians.
Was the Macbeth theater production intended to be parallel to the main plot about Leah's love relationship with the vampire Pearl? If so, it was hopelessly confused.
The final stretch of the film was a series of vampire clichés. While a university professor had lectured about Bram Stoker and Christina Rosetti, the filmmakers' racy, sensationalized choices were dreary and unappealing in this unsuccessful film.