SpunkySelfTwitter
It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.
Huievest
Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.
InformationRap
This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.
Eduardo Payne
I really liked this movie. The work contains three subjects always appreciated in a movie: vampirism, psychopathology and underground/Gothic scene. In the first ten minutes you'd probably think it is an ugly film about guns, vampires-zombies and religious persecution, but very soon the story grows to another point very interesting... based on the role games. I definitely would watch this movie again, and that is a sweet flattery to say about this chilean film. You better don't expect a "masterpiece", but it is a good work, def. Mostly for the lovers of the "genre". One of the intentions of the director was to focus more on the human reaction to fear, this is a plus in the movie... the nervous, the shake, the breath, the trembling voice of the character in panic. The "goth" bar environment is decently done.
Paul Andrews
Sangre Eterna is set in Chile where three Goth friends M (Juan Pablo Ogalde), Elizabeth (Patricia López) & Martin (Claudio Espinoza) are heavily into a Vampire role-playing game, a bit like Dungeons & Dragons. Meanwhile high school student Carmila (Blance Lewin) has to interview an 'interesting' person for a class project, for some reason she ask's M if he will be her interviewee. M introduces Carmila to the Vampire role-playing game & they, erm, play it. Then, while at a party, M believes that the host Dahmer (Carlos Borquez) is a real life Vampire & is trying to steal his friends away from him...Known to English audiences as Eternal Blood this Chilean production was co-written & directed by Jorge Olguín & one has to say that I thought it was crap & it's as simple & straight forward as that. The script by Olguín & Carolina García is a complete mess, it tries to do something a little bit different but as a near two hour feature film it is incredibly painful to sit through in one go. While watching this it felt like it lasted two days rather than two hours. The character's are awful, the dialogue is awful & I am not sure what the film was trying to do or who it was trying to appeal to. Is this meant to be pro or anti Goth culture? The story is a total mess, there are two horrible, horrible twists in Sangre Eterna which left me both frustrated & annoyed. The twists also have the unwanted consequence of ruining everything that has gone before, the events of Sangre Eterna is either down to a lunar eclipse, Goth Vampire role-playing freaks, drugs, hallucinations, parental neglect or all of the above! You can take your pick because the film never explains itself or gives any real motivation or reason for anything that happens. Then there's the final twist ending in which a supposedly dead person open their eyes which again just contradicts everything, & I mean everything that has gone before including a big twist mere minutes before. This film is a really boring mess that will leave most sane people frustrated, irritated, annoyed & if they are lucky asleep.Director Olguín does nothing special, the film is so tedious, about thirty or forty minutes too long & doesn't make any sense. Seriously if you sit down & think about it, consider all the twists & Sangre Eterna falls apart as it simply doesn't make any sort of sense. As the end credits roll I felt nothing but anger & annoyance as well as being glad that it had finished. Forget about any gore, there's a decent ripped-off head in a fantasy sequence but nothing else & the lack of horror, scares & atmosphere kills the film deader than a stone. It's some sort of horrible cross between a teen Goth soap opera & a horror film. Even the Chilean locations aren't used to any great effect.With a supposed budget of about $25,000 the makers of Sangre Eterna were obviously working on a low budget which accounts for the lack of action, horror, special effects or gore but it's still no excuse for such a poor script & such a bad film. Shot in Spanish Sangre Eterna was dubbed into English, very badly. In fact I haven't seen such a bad dub job on a film since they heyday of the Italian gore film during the late 70's & early 80's which is saying something.Sangre Eterna is a terrible film, if you like watching low budget boring horrible poorly scripted confusing messes then by all means give it a go. If you are looking for an entertaining horror film with some good dramatic incident, a story that makes sense & doesn't bore you to death then avoid Sangre Eterna at all costs.
paulofx
This Latin film is really amazing. A group of young people has a singular game on vampires. But they need another member and they look for a girl dressed black, nothing badly for the occasion. But they without knowledge that really is happening, begin to confuse the thin line of the reality. At the outset it can seem a simple film of vampires, but soon this begins to transform itself into very dark nightmare, with good special effects, but with good actors, something very rare for this type of films… I don't tell much about the plot to ruin the surprise. This film does not have million of the American industry, but it has much creativity, well-taken care of line of vision. I did not know that it was a Latin film (from Chile) until seeing an exhibition here in Mexico. Is brilliant to see an original work!
Ghost the Lost Soul
(Note: This review is based on the English-dubbed VHS version of the film.)Pros: Has a decent budget for a B-grade horror movie; the dubbed-over voices are decentCons: Lame acting; lame special effects; painfully bad senseless violence; the story disappears about an hour into the filmPlot summary(WARNING: MINOR SPOILERS!): Eternal Blood is a movie about a girl named Carmilla, a college student studying journalism. She befriends a group of Gothic students who are playing a role-playing game named after the film. She becomes interested in the game through M, the leader of the group she met in her class. During a strange party at an abandoned house, the group meets Dahmer(What a name, LOL!), a weird guy that introduces them to vampiric rituals. M realizes that Dahmer and his thugs are vampires that are changing his friends into vampires, and it's up to M to use ancient texts as a way make tham human again before it's too late.Review: Compared to The Zombie Chronicles and Frost: Portrait of a Vampire, Eternal Blood is Academy Award winner. On a general scale, though, EB is pure s***. Seriously, this movie is a waste of money. To it's credit, though, it did have a decent budget. Too bad the writer of this movie didn't sit down and make a decent script. EB actually LOST its story about a hour into the film. After that, it seemed like the director just made stuff up as the movie went along. Oh, and I think American anime voice actress Wendee Lee does the dubbed-over voices of the 2 lead female characters. Personally, I really don't give a damn. If you like gore, Goth, vampires with HORRIBLE hairlstyles, and gun-toting preists, then this movie is for you.
My rating: 3 out of 10
