Director: Jim Mickle
Year: 2010
Stars: Connor Paolo, Nick Damici, Kelly McGillis, Danielle Harris, Michael Cerveris,
A bit of a change from Mirror Mirror, this was the last horror movie we had left to watch in our ever-depleting list of recorded movies (I believe we're now down to five so we're making good progress).
I didn't know anything about Stakeland until I saw it advertised last Halloween, and it sounded like an interesting horror movie. Besides, it was about vampires, so right up my street. Well, it's sort of about vampires... the creatures in Stakeland are refered to as vampires, but in reality they seem to be a cross between vampires and zombies. You need to stake them to kill them, but they look a lot more like zombies. We never really find out whether being attacked by one causes you turn into a zombie or not, but that seems to be intentional.
The film is all about Martin (Paolo), and what happens to him when his family are all killed. It's something of a slow burner, but draws you right in. You'll either love or hate the ending - I understand exactly why it has the ending it does, but I'm not sure it's the one I wanted.
Rating: 3.5 out of 5
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