Vampire: Los Muertos is the movie that I have chosen to review this month.

Starring: Jon Bon Jovi, Christian De La Fuente, Arly Jover, and Darius McCrary

Running Time for this film is approximately 94 minutes

Director: Tommy Lee Wallace

Executive Producers: John Carpenter and Sandy King

In this second installment of John Carpenter's Vampire series, Jon Bon Jovi plays vampire bounty hunter Derek Bliss, who is hired by an anonymous person to recruit a team of vampire hunters to hunt down a vampire "master" located in Mexico.

Derek's team consists of: a young 16-year-old boy, Sancho. Rodrigo, a padre who is keeping an obvious secret, a young woman, Zoey, who, with the help of certain medications is keeping her vampirism at bay (it seems that this American party girl was bitten in Mexico City and decided to high tail it to the local hospital where she found a doctor who had recognized her symptoms, due to himself being the victim of the infection himself). And a man named Rafe out of Memphis Tennessee, another vampire hunter who uses a shotgun with wooden shells to knock the vampire down so that he can finish the job. Things for "Team Bliss" seems to be going rather smoothly at first, but turn a nasty shade later on when, after parking for the night, Rafe is accosted by the master vampire, a woman, who uses her erstwhile talents to not only seduce the Memphis hunter, but turn him into one of her little pawns in a deadly game of chess. Pieces are moved throughout the next few moments, up to and including the fact, that the master vampire has found out about Zoey's medicines and since the reciting of the of the "Reverse Exorcism" using the fabled "Black Cross of Berziers" failed miserably, she has opted for the medical treatment. Rafe is compelled to obey the vampiress, who has commanded him to not only steal Zoey's medicine but also set it up so that the master vampire could get to it easily. This arrangement comes in the form of a flat tire outside a gas station, where the vampiress has stashed three of her newly turned vampires as unwitting bait for the vampire hunters while the set up is being played out. With Zoey's medicine in hand, the vampiress heads for her lair, to experiment with the newfound medicinal help for the solarly challenged. Within moments she doses herself and heads out for the daylight at a local town's celebration of the Day of the Dead, where she proceeds to hunt for Zoey, not only to gloat over what has happened but also to find out more information on the medicines. Zoey doesn't seem too terribly amused by what has happened, and proceeds to throw herself into a pit.

One thing leads to another and Zoey is rescued at the cost of losing two members of the team to the vampiress. Rafe, the obvious one, who is taken out of the equation just before "Team Bliss" enters the vampire's lair, and the gorgeous hunk of a padre, who sacrifices himself in order to save Zooey and the others from the vampiress' wrath.

Once safely back in the town, Derek, determined to not let Zoey suffer anymore, moves to end her suffering by staking her only to be stopped by a nurse with an alternate plan. She insists that Derek help her with the "donors", a group of people who have turned out to give Zooey a blood transfusion. This brings her back to the point where Derek and she first met at a Cafe. Derek's mind working in a fast and frantic fashion comes up with the, what to me seemed way to obvious, idea of a reverse transfusion, to grant him the ability to sneak into the vampire's lair and attempt to rescue the padre, who turns out to be an imposter, faking it to get revenge on the vampiress for killing off the brothers of the monastery that he was working at as a hired hand. Smart plan. Foolishly carried out. But hey, it added a little something to the movie. On a scale of 1 to 10, I would have to give this movie a solid 5. Some of the vampire effects were ok, but there was none of the class that the first movie, but I did like this movie…

Well guys and ghouls that is it from this month's Bat's Belfry. Keep your eye on the movies

Written By: Belfazaar Ashantison

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