VAMPIRES: LOS MUERTOS

The tenacious vampire hunter Derek Bliss is at work in the heart of Mexico when he receives a strange assignment from a mysterious client: form a team with the best "hunters" and eliminate a group of bloodthirsty vampires led by a powerful and sensual vampire… Apocryphal sequel to "Vampires" (1998) by John Carpenter, which this time limits itself to the production of the film, whose direction is entrusted to Tommy Lee Wallace ("IT", "Ammazzavampiri 2", "Halloween III") "expert" in the genre, particularly in television horror and low-budget films. And this "Vampires: Los Muertos" (original title of the film, sadly renamed for the Italian release) seems to be a low-budget product as well as low-profile: the subject and characters largely replicate those of "Vampires", as do the settings, the soundtrack, and the key situations, but all in a "budget" version compared to Carpenter's good film. The role of the protagonist shifts from James Woods to rock star Jon Bon Jovi (which says it all), the pace is rather good but the film is too disjointed, made up of a series of more or less brief sequences poorly connected to each other, without a precise narrative and logical thread that holds them together. Wallace's direction is absolutely devoid of any originality and merely serves to be entirely functional to the narration of events. The only thing to save is some semi-splatter sequences and the first two minutes that serve as a prologue to the film (original and almost "startling"). In conclusion, this "Vampires: Los Muertos" turns out to be rather disappointing: neither a sequel nor a remake, but almost a sort of poor copy of "Vampires", it's definitely better to rewatch the original!