Substituted plot with blood and gore.
359864
When you can't come up with a decent scifi plot, substitute with blood and gore.
3504516
Weird, bloody and gruesome.  good history if you like this sort of thing
4335886
Really dark. Too much freaky sex that made the movie X rated.  Should be put in a other the "Drama".
1344384
Scary! Too much blood and gore for mepretty excessive,I thinkbut otherwise a five/five. Taking one off for the guts.
1573568
Our villain is certainly a gruesome figure. "Bucket List" isn't afraid to "go there," so to speak, and the tortures described are the type no modern horror movie would ever dare show. This certainly isn't for the squeamish or faint of heart.

However, for all that, the violence feels almost sterile for how it's depicted. It's certainly not frightening. Because the protagonist is so one-dimensional, his actions are neither expected nor shocking. It's really just...well, a few scenes of someone being gruesomely tortured.

I admit that I'm not familiar with the splatter gore genre. That could be part of it. Perhaps this is actually exactly what the author intended, maybe even as a critique of the genre. If so, I missed it. I would still consider this a fairly shocking introduction to the genre and hope to read more from the author.
985315
I recalled liking POE, which is why I borrowed this as an e-read from my library. The writing is so good that I stuck with it. I guess I was hoping there would be something redeeming. I found this just disgustingly violent. Someone compared this to Saw. It was that type of  over-the-top, sick gore. I wished I could have scrubbed it out of my brain. It is that disturbing.
1737205
You can definitely tell the movies that are made most recently of this genre...too many sex scenes, too much sex related gore. Note for producers: Go back to Wrong Turn #1, watch it, and follow what wasn't broke to begin with!
3794326
pure escapist stuff lots of blood and gore ..nice twist at the end
1268218
Be aware that this is not a fairy tale but a horror story with graphically described blood, guts, gore, beheaded horses and soldiers, other dismemberments, suffocation, oozing puss, and pulsing evil. I eventually had to give up, charming writing notwithstanding; I didn't want this stuff in my head. The two protagonists are the very retro "powerful" male who is just abusive, verbally and physically, and the retro "ingenue."  Miraculously she is not psychologically damaged by being "taught" the things that are beneficial to her in an abusive manner (as in "knock some sense into the fool."). Feels like an excellent writer constructing a fable by the numbers, the demographic ones, hitting on all the plot points for the widest possible drag net. It would get one star, but I guess, the writing deserves acknowledgement. I wonder if all the positive reviews are real.
3457810
Generally, I expect Vampire stories to have a strong element of horror in them.  Their nature is one that should inspire fear, not pity, and they are endowed with a set of powers that makes them efficient killers.  The successful exceptions to this are those vampires that combine humor, sex appeal, intelligence, or unexpected ethics with their grimmer nature.  Because a vampire that breaks from its essential nature really isn't a vampire any longer.  This is the major flaw of 'Cathedral of Vampire.'
Cecilia, a vampire, has conceived a need for vengeance for Sade's complicity in the death of her child's death.  Allied with her are Justin, a half vampire, and Marie, who has reincarnated in the dead body of Justin's mother.  Marie is actually Sade's mother-in-law, killed by him, and shares the old master's lust for pain and cruelty.  Justin has dedicated his life to helping vampire 'find peace,' a politically correct euphemism for killing them.
Standing against this trio of misfits is the count himself, ensconced in his French chateau, debauching and eating the nymphets of the village when he is not throwing gala bondage parties for people he generally seems to dislike.  Sade has adapted the local cathedral so that he can lock up vampires behind its walls, hence the title of the novel, and most of the story is about Cecilia's incarceration there and the efforts of Justin to free her and her fellow victims.
Marquis Donatian Aldonse Louis de Sade, was very much a thinker, as well as one of Frances's most famous perverts.  Rather than a man of intelligence and wit, we, we are presented with a very petty old man who takes senseless risks to sate his lust, and who spends even more time plotting petit vengeance than he does torturing the innocent.  Indeed, both he and Marie who are well over two hundred years old behave with a surprising and unconvincing lack of maturity.
There is something farcical about Mary Ann Mitchell's characters and her humans fare little better.  This would be acceptable if the farce was intended, but it was not.  Anne Rice, who is hardly much kinder to her casts, still treats them with a basic level of respect and dignity that is lacking here.  I have not read any of Mitchell's previous stories in this series, which are apparently better, but this one is ill conceived.  Hopefully that will be remedied in the future.
4082658
i could pick this season apart but i'll spare the details and just mention that the show really changed directions at the very end of season 2 and continued with this new theme through season 3. it's almost like you can feel the screen writers wondering how to wow the audience and grab ratings. lot of blood, lot of death, lot of brutal. sadly, there just isn't a realistic feel to it anymore. not that it's by any means a bad show, it's just that characters like nucky thompson, who were loosely based on nucky johnson, now have completely entered the realm of 100% fictional TV.
4315318
A little bit bloody to really enjoy or even to seem at all realistic  Even for the time and location.
44826
really, 3 minutes in there is a sex scene then it's so bloody....wow, can't watch too many movies anymore.....
4003895
This is a modern, updated vampire tale with a more high tech blood delivery system. It may seem neat and clean but this is no Mister Nice Guy. This is an evil vampire with a plan of destruction. Theres plenty of gory torture and murder. Its a detective story but its a vampire mystery so of course theres a bit of romance, too.

Its a long book packed with many characters but Rusty Webber is the most developed character.  She is an archeologist hired by a wealthy blood processing corporation to do research first in Romania, and then after she is almost killed and put on trial for murder, is rescued and hired to do further work at a California mission by the same tycoon.
Its like when you watch a horror movie and you are yelling at the victim No, don't do that. Rusty didn't listen to me.

Once in California, she begins digging at an old Spanish mission but bodies start appearing and disappearing.  She finds her mysterious employer is darkly interesting and generous but cold and not completely trustworthy.

At the same time, a serial killer is on the loose and Reese Tarrant is the cop on the case. When the case is closed, Reese retires and moves into the alleged serial killers apartment to continue his own investigation. Thats when he meets Rusty and eventually her employer, Ajax Rasmussen. The love triangle begins.

There was hope for this story but I felt it was too long and drawn out. It was a disappointing and not completely tied up ending.
1731267
Good special effects and an ambitious Apocalypse virus scenario grip you for the first part of the film.  Animal rights activists let out monkeys with a virus that's so aggressive it wipes out the population of England in 28 days.  The DVD contains interviews with scientists saying, yes, viral pandemics are dangerous.  So this film pretends to be realistic while wallowing in mindless gore.  Pretty much a cross between Night of the Living Dead and 12 Monkeys (without the time travel), a group of survivors travel to Manchester to find salvation in a radio broadcast of army troops.  The scenes of a deserted London are well done (looks like London on Sunday morning 6AM).  All the while they fight off blood spewing zombies.  So one inconsistency among many here is with all the blood all over the place, the film starts with survivors wearing blood-proof full body and head protection, but this contradicts the rest of the film where they are unfazed when infected blood spews all over them.  Of course watching a film with nothing but actors in burka-like covering would be boring, especially for the gore fans.

  Danny Boyle directed Trainspotting, and the satire that works there is conspicuously absent here.  I wanted to see thoughtfulness in the script, but found little.  Why is it the trend to make Apocalypse/Disaster films into shallow studies in action, violence, and gore?  For mass appeal?  Anyway the gore scenes are intense enough to recommend keeping kids away from the film.  On the other hand adults can laugh at some of them as they attempt to be as over-the-top as you can get.  Skip it and watch 12 Monkeys or Night of the Living Dead instead.
2659556
Big disappointment.  The book was fun, with a much more nuanced plot.  The movie was a full-on "action movie" gore fest with lots of in your face violence and little redeeming quality.  I couldn't finish it, and have read all of the Hogan novels.
4117570
Did not contain an interesting plot. Reminded me of the bad blood and gore movies, just interested in shock value.