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10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
What Were They Thinking?
"10 Cloverfield Lane" is nothing like "Cloverfield" ! I don't know why sites are giving it good ratings. I feel like I was tricked into seeing a movie I wouldn't ordinarily see. Imagine if you went to see a movie called Star Wars and turned out to be a claustrophobic sequel to "Signs."
By itself it would be an alright movie, but it didn't need to be a sequel to anything. The bunker part of the movie lasts way too long for it to be a sequel to Cloverfield. The acting is good. The movie did managed to make me uncomfortable. Towards the end it started to get better. Unfortunately the last 20 minutes is not the first 20 minutes. I found myself thinking "alright this is looking more like the kind of movie I was wanting to see" and then the movie was over.
El vampiro de la autopista (1971)
Not too Vampiric
The "Horrible Sexy Vampire" is not sexy and not a vampire in the traditional sense. OK, I guess he is kind of handsome for an albino Pole, but he doesn't drink blood; he strangles people to death. There is not one drop of blood drank, or spilled, in this movie. Wtf kind of vampire movie is that? The original Spanish title "El Vampiro de la Autopista" translates to "The Vampire of the Highway" which makes no more sense. A better name for the movie might be "The Murderous Phantom" or "The Perverse Undead".
The "Sexy" part of the title probably refers to the number of attractive women who who their breasts in the movie, particularly red heads. The fiend really has a thing for red heads. There are a couple more unusual things about this movie: the fiend kills many police detectives, and he has the power of invisibility.
The movie is just police detectives getting strangled, half nude women getting strangled, and atmospheric scenes with Count Oblinski getting black-out-drunk alone in his ancestral mansion. I won't say its a horrible movie, but its a blood-free movie with "Vampire" in the title and its slow in parts. It strikes me as the kind of movie people were meant to make-out too.