The American Film Market, like The San Diego Comic Con and the Toronto International Film Festival is an event like few others when you write a blog like this. It’s a window into exciting genre pictures that have yet to be signed into distribution deals (and many that have) and for the first time you get to see trailers and teasers for what is on the horizon, movies that you’ve only seen news blips about here and there. Maybe you’ve seen a poster or some set stills but nothing in motion. This is definitely the case with the upcoming flick, Stake Land, another Glass Eye Pix production. Glass Eye is a company that I have warmed up to considerably in the last year thanks to some outstanding small budget, big ideas movies like House of the Devil and I Sell The Dead (review) and initial reports about Stake Land that described it as a very familiar story about post-holocaust survivors fleeing from the living dead in some near-future America turned me off to further reading. However, taking a minute to look at this vague but tempting teaser gives me hope.
Here’s the official line:
Kelly McGillis plays a nun who joins a small team of survivors (including Nick Damici and Connor Paolo of “Gossip Girl”) as they make a treacherous journey north to safety through the war-torn U.S. McGillis’ character, “Sister,” faces a crisis of faith during the vampire bloodshed, ultimately taking up arms to do battle with her newly formed family unit.
November 9, 2009 12:23 am
Trailer is bit light on the details but it peaked my curiosity. And thats a damned hard feat when it comes to vampire movies. Maybe its just me or maybe its all these so called “vampire movies” that have come out in the last 10 years that were all style and no substance like twilight or the underworld series where they went more for a visual stylization or playing up to the teenagers audience vs trying to be an actual vampire movie and try something other than what marketing thinks will pad their bank accounts the most.
It kind of has a 28 days later vibe to it which I thought was cool, I just hope the final product can be good because its been way to long since a vampire flick got my attention, the last one to do was John Carpentars Vampires and even that one seemed just a tad to mainstream for my tastes but it was still enjoyable.
Now I am having a craving for some of Hammer Horror vampire flicks with Christopher Lee.