Review of Vampire Island (2009) by Troy F — 16 Apr 2014

Had a promising start as a decent vampire horror flick, beginning with a sort of Battle Royale-esque feel in terms of the teenage characters and delving into the unexpected as they travel to an island to find Akira's lost brother.

This is where the movie dips in the wrong direction and just gets plain boring as fuck, with too much talk. The action scenes... when they actually do come around to remind us this movie actually knows how to have fun.

.. are at least fairly cool... half of them. Half of the sequences seem to have been edited by one person who likes the shitty fast cut style where you have no idea what's happening, while another editor seemed to do the others just right.

The lighting was also too dark in some sequences. It's a simple premise that I really think didn't need a huge amount of story detail and backstory, yet this film does just that and the movie is ultimately too long.

Either add more action in between or cut a damn 30 min out of this for hells sake. Either way, I was fairly interested at the start and didn't have much expectations, but the film still fell below them.

You can find better Japanese vampire flicks I bet...