Dark Town DVD Review:

Modern vampire movies often have the tendency to be more disgusting than scary, considering the fact that it involves the sucking of blood from a living being. While they used to be more sophisticated, these days the focus seems to be on the gore more than anything else. This may work for some
viewers, but personally I prefer not to be made sick by every other scene, which is exactly how Dark Town made me feel.

Mixing gang violence with vampire gore, Dark Town attempts originality but gets caught up in too much of the same nonsense. When a cruel landlord is
bitten and becomes a vampire, he begins to infect his family also. When a group of angry tenants show up at their house for revenge, they find
themselves in a lair of hungry vampires. Although there are more details, such as a pregnant woman and a lesbian couple, these are of no real
consequence to the plot and merely attempt to add more gruesome or sexual scenes to spice up this horrible horror film.

Every so often there is an inspired camera angle, which makes me think that there may have been some talent on set, but everything that happened before the camera rolled as well as everything after, made it impossible for this film to be good. The script is no good, which means that there is no hope for the actors, even though they are not nearly as bad as most actors in this caliber film. Once in post-production the editing and the sound becomes
another problem as well. There is dubbing that doesn’t quite match up, making for some humorous scenes, but this isn’t the worst of it. It seems
much more irritating to listen to the overdone sounds of flesh being eaten. These sounds drown out anything else in half of the film, making for one of the most disgusting soundtracks I have been exposed to in years.

The one good thing about the DVD is that the film comes in widescreen, which helps the decent cinematography. There is also a writer and director
commentary track, but I can’t imagine many people sitting through the film twice to listen to two people talk very seriously about a bad film. Other
than these two factors, the DVD is exactly as bad as it would seem. There a bland menu and not much else in the special features. Be thankful for the little things.



Ryan Izay