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Metascore
19 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam LaceyThe Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam LaceyCrude, rude, nasty fun.
- 63ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliThe essential problem with the movie isn't that it's loud, violent, and gory, but that, before Carpenter ratchets up the tension in the final 35 minutes, it's not especially interesting.
- 50San Francisco ChronicleBob GrahamSan Francisco ChronicleBob GrahamThe lead actors on both sides of the vampire divide are all strong personalities.
- 50Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe movie has a certain mordant humor, and some macho dialogue that's funny. Woods manfully keeps a straight face through goofy situations where many another actor would have signaled us with a wink. But the movie is not scary, and the plot is just one gory showdown after another.
- 50TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghTV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghJames Woods adds another hateful, embittered creep to his gallery of losers, neurotics and junkyard dogs with vampire slayer Jack Crow.
- Profoundly disappointing--though Carpenter's score is, as usual, good fun.
- 40Village VoiceAmy TaubinVillage VoiceAmy TaubinA gorefest of epic proportions.
- 40EmpireEmpireFor all the exploding gore, graphic eviscerations and combustible corpses, it’s not shocking, not sexy and not scary.
- 30SalonSalonThe sort of thing you can't believe anyone would want their name attached to.
- 25New York Daily NewsJami BernardNew York Daily NewsJami BernardIt's just as well that John Carpenter makes horror movies, because here's a horrifying thought picture James Woods as an action hero. [30 October 1998, p. 44]