Normally I give 1/10 to majority of very low budget films because I believe that if you are going to do something, do it right, or just don't do it at all.
This one gets 10/10. Writing is brilliant. Character development is exceptional. Story is just perfect.
Main character has a personality that will rub a lot of people the wrong way, but that is because they have neither sense of humor nor understand that its masterful portrayal of what lot of guys out there are really like. Whether you ever see that side or not simply depends on how well do you know them. Just ask my friends and exes.
And while this will obviously sound like overenthusiastic fake review, its as real as it gets.
See this film, and if you did not like it, get better sense of humor.
Summer of Blood
2014
Action / Comedy / Horror
Summer of Blood
2014
Action / Comedy / Horror
Plot summary
Erik Sparrow is one of the lucky ones. He's got a good job. He's in a stable relationship. He lives in one of the greatest cities in the world. Does he deserve it? Probably not. He's not too bright. He's not very attractive. He's not at all ambitious. He's chubby and he's always complaining. And when his girlfriend Jody proposes to him, he doesn't even have the good sense to accept her offer. He'll never find a woman like this again. Instead, Erik bumbles his way around the issue, offering one excuse after another for not getting married. When Jody dumps him and starts seeing an old flame from college, Erik tries to win her back. When he fails, he attempts to date other women, but the results are disastrous. Erik's starts falling apart. His job grows more unfulfilling. He becomes obsessed with a kinky co-worker who has no interest in him. He becomes riddled with despair. One night, Erik meets an enigmatic stranger named Gavin who asks him, "Do you want to die?" Erik shrugs and says, "I do." Then everything goes pitch black. When Erik wakes up from the darkness, he finds himself changed forever. He's stronger, more confident and free to do whatever he wants. Dating is a cinch. He's a Lothario, a sexual dynamo; able to seduce any women he wants without even trying. He quits his job. Finally, he's free and unshackled with not a care in the world. Except for one little thing, the excruciating stomach pains. There's only one remedy for that... BLOOD!
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Wretched hipster vampire effort
Never satisfied with his existence, a chubby, pessimistic loser soon finds everything turned upside down when he becomes a vampire only to realize not everything has changed for the better and tries to find a way of coping with the situation.
For the most part this here was a big waste of time. This here mostly stems from the fact that we spend so much time with the main lead here that it soon becomes tiresome listening to such inane, pathetic drivel that is forced into this one. Being a self-centered, immature hipster who can't go more than five seconds without railing vitriol on anything and everything around him, from why he doesn't want to marry his girlfriend then trying to keep her when she shows interest in another person who genuinely likes her, being completely indifferent to his job or to the apartment where he lives or even to the dates he goes on with other women, it all basically ends in idiosyncratic rants designed to be some sort of genius look at the world but are instead pessimistic, ill- formed and completely debatable points that turn him into the most unlikable person in the world. Just by being quirky he thinks this is the coolest point ever, causing him to utilize this facet for the remainder of his screen-time that it just grows more and more pretentious as time goes on and there's nothing here that's all too enjoyable to sit through with such a self-absorbed and delusional figure that's meant to be a likable lead here. As an added chip against this, the endless complaining and posturing does nothing for the film's pace here which is so bland and languid that there's literally nothing on- screen for two-thirds of the movie, even after he's changed as he goes around in more of his delusion ranting about his change that despite hooking back up with the spurned dates he previously went on and managed to get them to sleep with him in that condition when he hasn't changed from what made them rightfully reject him to begin with is so inconceivable that it takes the viewer right out of the film and reminds us all of it being a vanity project where such a completely misguided, utterly worthless condescending jerk would be able to pull off what happens here which is played off as newfound confidence but isn't in the slightest bit true of anything other than pretentious nonsense. It's just so hard to get anything out of this that despite a few decent bloodletting scenes along the way as he tries to adapt to the change here, from the alleyway attack on the college student and the main sequence of him biting each of the dates one-by-one while sleeping with them gives this one some messy blood-letting from time-to-time here, but it's all mostly undone by the film's meager budget which restricts the vampire notion to simply his contact lenses as there's barely any fangs on display or other such powers featured here. On the whole this one was beyond worthless.
Rated R: Graphic Language, Graphic Violence, Nudity and strong sexual scenes.
Can't remember the last time I saw a vampire movie as funny as this!
Mr. Sparrow is a loser. He is more or less a sloppy, dirty, and extremely talkative and deranged version of Peter Jackson.
But he is never boring. I can't remember the last time I laughed so hard watching a vampire movie. This one is excellent. I love the dark humor!
There are two types of vampire movies I enjoy. One is dark and serious, like Underworld, and the other is humorous, like this one.
Out of the 143 vampire movies I've seen, the following are very good humorous ones I recommend to fans of the genre:
Love at first bite 1979 Vampire's kiss 1989 Dracula dead and loving it 1995 Hotel Transylvania 1-2 2012-2015 Vamps 2012 (featuring Sigourney Weaver) Bloodsucking bastards 2015
They are all very good humorous vampyre movies.
Summer of blood is a pleasant surprise to my collection. It is so exciting, so good and funny!
I laughed hard upon hearing lines like "This is what you get for not getting your education..." I might recommend the movie to school dropouts in the future. :)