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DVD Daylight Fades
 Rating: 3.7 Genres: Thriller Director: Brad Ellis Writers: Allen Gardner Stars: Matthew Stiller, Rachel Miles, Allen Gardner |
| Storyline What do you do when you can save the life of the man you love by giving him eternal life? Desperate for a second chance, Elizabeth makes the unthinkable choice in this thoroughly engaging horror thriller. A FilmBuff Presentation. |
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| Details: Country: USA Release Date: 29 October 2010 (USA) |
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DVD Daylight Fades
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When daylight fades Is a low budget slow moving, boring vampire movie about love, relationship, and god knows what else. The main problem for me with this movie is the pace and the fact that you really don't care about any of the characters. The main guy is supposedly the underdog of the society whom never has much luck; than one night he meets the women of he's dreams, they have a fight just before things go wrong. And he gets turned in to a vampire with a conscience. Which means he's gonna go around for the rest of the movie preaching about right and wrong and that you can not go around killing people, just cause you're a vampire. Even though he does it him self sometimes He bitch and wines like he is in a Ben stiller movie. This gives me even less sympathy for him. "Oh it's so hard being a vampire", "my conscience is telling me to stop" If you like a vampire movie that moves at snail pace, this might just be the movie for you. It's kind of like a movie about a vampire's struggle with he's inner self and he's conscience. It makes twilight seem Oscar worthy, and they even have sparkling vampires how sad is that
It might be accidental, but one of the vampires in Daylight Fades looks the spit of a young Bill from True Blood. He even talks the same way! Interesting…
The actual movie itself is less of a rip-your-throat spectacle, and more of a thoughtful what would happen if… drama. As in, if your boyfriend suffered fatal injuries in a car accident, would you be happy when your long-lost bloodsucker father reincarnated him as a member of the living dead? It's great having your beau back, but at the cost of him having to stay indoors all days, and uncontrollably feasting on passing humans when the mood takes him? A guy can't just survive on stray cats & dogs alone, ya know…
I found the characters here compelling in the way they interacted with each other, and the low-key undertakings a refreshing change from the usual blood eruptions associated with the genre. It provides direct contrasts between vampires trying to cling onto whatever traces of humanity they possess, to those who give into their base desires and see their former race as just cattle. It also raises an interesting quandary: I'm going to live for eternity. Should I contact my old flame, even though she's now YEARS older? All intriguing questions, and explored in good detail.
Sure, there's the odd dodgy acting moment and bad special effect, but so what? For the relative sum it must have cost to make, it's a bit of a hidden gem. And the final shot is quite beautiful. 6/10
From the talented writer Allen Gardner and Director Brad Ellis, this movie is actually pretty good for a low budget indie flick. It is a fairly decent stay at home with the girlfriend/wife movie. It does remind me of Twilight and True Blood, but it does provide its own story line. This movie is a remarkable improvement from this group of guys over their earlier works. You can tell they are coming into their own in film making and their products are starting to show their talent. I have added this movie to my collection for when the writer/actor Allen Gardner and Actor Matt Stiller along with Director Brad Ellis go to the big show! Good work boys! For everyone else out there, be sure to check out these guys' next movie, "Being Awesome". It is sure to be an instant feel good hit!