Sanguivorous
(2011/MVD Visual DVD)
Picture:
D Sound: D Extras: D Main Program: C+
A
young woman finds her body suffering from pain and nightmares,
longing for something to satisfy dark cravings, and discover she is
from a line of vampires. As her blood awakens to her heritage, her
boyfriend confides in her and says make him a vampire and their love
will last forever. But is not for her to decide but her blood....
In
Naoki Yoshimoto's Sanguivorous (2011), a young Japanese woman
finds herself having dark and animalistic cravings for blood, and
learns she has vampire blood in her. As she struggles for who she
is, she is guided by another female vampire and the spirit of their
sire. Encouraged by her boyfriend to take his blood and turn him,
she gives in to her desire for blood, but as she transform, the elder
vampire awakens and takes control and tells her an immortal vampire's
life is eternal suffering for more blood, and is a never ending hell.
This
was a very lame vampire story, a story of suffering after discovering
one is a vampire, and how then they are manipulated by the elder
vampire to bring him blood and then pull something else. While it is
smart not to make too many vampires, the elder vampire just
hibernates from one victim/descendant to another. Most of the film
was images of nothing but the vampire's suffering, often blurred
black and white or monotone colors over each other, and with ambient
sounds. The content itself was more like a silent film with text and
not in a good German Expressionism way either. The sound and picture
are awful and there are no extras.
-
Ricky Chiang
