Sangre Eterna

One of the comments who surprise me gratefully is the notice that this movie is (at this time) filmed in USA as a Remake. Historically is the first Chilean movie that's been filmed in USA from an original Chilean idea. Probably (we don't know yet) the film director will be Jorge Olgin, the same director of the original Sangre Eterna but with more FX and all the foreigner technology.

Personally I recommend this movie.

In the old spirit of gore, this movie from Chile centers on some goth youngsters that play a dungeons and dragons-style game, where they become vampires. You can imagine the sequences where they "incarnate" their players - just think of a shootout where priests and nuns are the baddies. Anyway, they start realizing that the game is not that fictional - or is it? Lead by young charismatic characters, the movie's triumph is its cinematography and style. Too bad that I saw it with no subtitles, though, it made me miss a lot of the movie.

Carmilla (Blanca Lewin) is a student of Journalism, who has relationship problems with her stepmother. She needs to interview a person for her homework of philosophy class, and she meets M (Juan Pablo Ogalde), a vampire lover that plays a RPG called "Eternal Blood" with his Gothic friends Elizabeth (Patricia Lopez) and Martin (Claudio Espinoza), in a seminar. After the interview, she is invited to participate in the game and dates M in a party in a house owned by the weird Dahmer (Carlos Borquez). The group uses drugs, and M is convinced that Dahmer is a vampire and is transforming his friends also in vampires. He decides to use the content of the philosophy classes to save Carmilla and his friends from the claws of Dahmer.

Although having a confused beginning, "Sangre Eterna" is a good vampire movie. In the beginning, the development of the characters is very weak and it is difficult to understand what is happening. After some fifteen minutes, there is a clarification, and the story becomes dramatic regarding the relationship of Carmilla and M with their families. Then the gore and Gothic story becomes very intriguing and has a great conclusion. The dark cinematography and music score fits very well to this simple, but efficient film. My only remark is the exaggerated merchandising. My vote is six.

Title (Brazil): "Sangue Eterno" ("Eternal Blood")

Note: On 23 May 2010 I saw this film again.

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.

I was surprised at how much I really liked this movie. The story has a very original twist on the typical vampire script idea. It has a truly dark and brooding atmosphere about it throughout the film. The cinematography was amazingly professional and has a shocking style all it's own. The use of blue-tinted lighting throughout the movie helped the atmosphere greatly. The special effects make-up and prosthetics were better than most "A" Hollywood films...they didn't look so cheesy like in so many vampire films. Quirky characters make many of the scenes quite memorable.

Maybe it had to do with the fact that this film was shot in Chile, and I usually enjoy foreign films. I'm not really sure if I've ever seen a film from Chile before this. I would indeed like to see more if they are generally of this high quality.

Compared to the last few vampire direct-to-video films I've seen...this is far superior in many aspects. I feel the urge to view it again in the near future......