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( Sep. 30th, 2007 07:52 pm)
Like phases of the moon, I seem to run into vampire based entertainment. The modern vampire myth is simple, superhuman powers and an addiction to the always fashionable red stuff that runs through people's veins. Those are the only rules, really. Note, in the context of "good" vampires, blood is usually a little like spinach to Popeye.

As cheesy as all that innately is, I'm still a sucker for it. (Yeah, puns are mandatory.) First, the stupid. One of the stupidest vampire movies ever, based on a video game, is BloodRayne. Well, that's what I thought until I saw BloodRayne II: Deliverance. Note the cast in the original, a lot of recognizable names in there. With that, a scene very close to X rated, an off screen tryst between the two female leads, actresses later seen in Lost and Painkiller Jane, and a Meatloaf cameo, BloodRayne is a really entertaining bad movie. The "sequel" is bizarre, a basic spaghetti Western with vampires, very bad but nothing particularly redeeming.

In anime, the very short movie Blood: The Last Vampire is a stand out. Atmospheric, creepy, it runs against the all too real background of a US military base in Okinawa. It spawned a series that I'm currently watching, Blood +. While containing many anime cliches I'm not fond of, I still can't turn away. I'm on episode 40 or so. It's good, in spite of my reservations.

And now, the other night, on CBS, was Moonlight. It's been done, many times. One reviewer likened it to Angel, but he was wrong. This show is a near identical reprisal of Forever Knight. The pilot for which stared Rick "I love the 80's" Springfield.

I enjoyed Forever Knight and expected to hate Moonlight, but I didn't. The lead actually has a Rick Springfield thing going on. His voice is melodious and suited to the little Sam Spade style voice overs the pilot favors. There is a blond woman who "knows" his secret and an old friend (LaCroix?) who chides his mortal sensitivities. It's not inspired or original, but I'll probably watch the next installment.
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