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Rated: R; Genres: Action/Adventure, Horror; With: Daniel Baldwin, Sheryl Lee, Thomas Ian Griffith and James Woods
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Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lisa Schwarzbaum is a film critic for EW
JOHN CARPENTER'S VAMPIRES (R) It could have been really cool: dark doings among the undead set in the New Mexico desert under a John Ford sky, orchestrated with loving attention to Western conventions and gothic niceties. Instead, after a promising opening -- vampire slayer Jack Crow (James Woods) and his posse root out and burn up a nest of ''goons'' -- this mix of fake-Catholic mumbo jumbo and teeth-in-neck horror goes limp. The goons themselves look rather chic, flying through the air in Galliano-goes-to-hell garments straight out of Vampire Vogue. C-
Posted Nov 13, 1998
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