Softwing
Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??
filippaberry84
I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.
Benas Mcloughlin
Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.
dworldeater
Sundown is pretty good for what it is. What is it? A low budget western/horror/action/comedy flick with plenty of original ideas, a great cast and its tongue is firmly planted in its cheek. David Carradine is Mardulak, he owns a town in the American southwest called Purgatory. Purgatory is a sanctuary of sorts for vampires that wish to live out eternity in peace. Mardulak is also funding a blood substitute so vampires will no longer feed on humans for blood. Of course there are some that are not on the same page and do not see humans as their equals, just lunch. John Ireland is great opposite of Carradine as villain in this. Plus M. Emmet Walsh, Bruce Campbell, George "Buck" Flower and Emmet from Road House appear. Sundown The Vampire In Retreat is fine campy entertainment that does not take itself so seriously. But, by doing so it succeeds on its own merits. It puts a nice and unique spin on the vampire mythos and is a hilarious and fun film. This film may be a little cheesy, but performances are good and this project is ripe with fresh ideas. Sundown The Vampire In Retreat certainly delivers the goods for campy entertainment.
kneiss1
This is one of the movies that totally didn't move me. Actually, it didn't have a single aspect in it that interested me. I was hoping for an atmospheric vampire movie, and got a comedy movie that simply isn't funny. Not even Campbell was able to help in that aspect. This guy was amazingly funny in the evil dead 2, but here, he felt totally misplaced. I guess, there is no way that he could actually play clumsy and sappy at all. Even though I like the actor, for this movie he was pretty much the worst cast possible. All other actors did OK. But that just didn't help with an awful script like this one. I can't believe that the original has been a book. The whole movie felt completely like a trash movie. Sense was almost lacking completely.For me, either a movie has to move, that means, transport emotions. Or it has to teach something, that means, transport informations. This movie didn't do either. It didn't even make me smile a single time.
Nyx_Selene
Sundown - featuring the weakest, dorkiest vampires ever seen, accompanied by one of the most unfitting, pretentious scores ever written - and with Shane the vampire, who's every move and spoken word was so ridiculous that I burst out laughing half the times and rolled my eyes the rest.The vampires don't seem to have any special powers at all - except for strength (sometimes), being able to switch off a lamp with their mind (one time) and... that's it, really. Ever imagine count Dracula worriedly recoiling from a fight 'cause he ran out of bullets? Neither did I. Practically any other movie-Dracula would eat this one for breakfast, skin his followers and use their bones as toothpicks.The main plot of the movie is that a human family of four gets caught up in a vampire gang fight - Dracula's vs. some old geezer's. It could have been some good old B-flick fun, but the overly dramatic music was clearly written by someone who took this movie a bit too seriously, and ends up ruining the remaining part of the movie not already ruined by clay bats, mediocre acting and the laughable screenplay.In the end it's just too silly to be funny. Sure, it has some amusing moments, but they're few, and far apart.
Woodyanders
All isn't well in the remote desert town of Purgatory. The place is populated by vampires. One bunch led by the charming, courtly Count Margulak (a splendidly suave and dignified portrayal by David Carradine) want to switch to synthetic blood and live peacefully with humans while a rival evil faction led by the wicked Ethan Jefferson (a marvelously ruthless John Ireland) and smooth heel Shane (essayed with gleefully nasty brio by Maxwell Caulfield) wish to retain the old ways of preying on normal people for food. Things inevitably culminate in a fierce pitched war between the opposing groups with the human Harrison family caught in the middle. Director Anthony Hickox, who also co-wrote the witty and ingenious script with John Burgess, deftly blends horror, comedy, and Western elements into a fresh, funny and hugely enjoyable handy dandy multi-genre combo special. Moreover, Hickox relates the absorbing story at a leisurely, yet steady pace, further spices things up with a deliciously deadpan sense of pitch-black humor, comes through with several suitably juicy moments of gore (an impalement on an umbrella rates as the definite amusingly twisted splatter highlight), and stages the last reel action with considerable rip-roaring aplomb. The uniformly bang-up cast have a ball with their meaty roles: Carradine and Ireland make for terrific adversaries, Bruce Campbell contributes a hilarious comic turn as the bumbling Robert Van Helsing, the ever-lovely Deborah Foreman is a sexy hoot as fetching, lonely bloodsucker babe Sandy White, plus there's fine turns by Morgan Brittany as the sweet, attractive Sarah Harrison, Jim Metzler as wimpy nice guy David Harrison, M. Emmet Walsh as hot-tempered old-timer Mort Bisby, Bert Remsen as the cranky Milt Bisby, and George "Buck" Flower as the crusty Bailey. The crisp widescreen cinematography by Levie Isaaks gives the picture an appropriately dusty look while Richard Stone's robust, rousing full-bore orchestral score hits a thrilling bull's eye. A total blast.
