Therapy
For A Vampire (2014/Music Box DVD)
Picture:
B- Sound: B- Extras: C Film: C+
A
delightful horror/comedy from Germany, the 2014 David Ruhm film
Therapy For A Vampire has great acting, strong production
value, and incredible special effects. The film has a great
screenplay and has several nods to classic vampire films and even a
touch of Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo. At times the film uses
the narrative skeleton of Bram Stoker's Dracula a bit too
much, but that doesn't get in the way of the entertainment value.
In
1932 Vienna, Dr. Sigmund Freud (Karl Fischer) helps a depressed
vampire (Tobias Moretti) who refers to himself as Count, whose
500-year marriage isn't what its used to be. His deadly wife still
wants to be reminded of her beauty and yearns to see her reflection
in a mirror. Whilst at the same time, an artist and his longtime
girlfriend have a fate that intertwines with the Count - to whom he
believes the woman is a reincarnation of his long lost love.
Presented
in standard definition with an anamorphic widescreen aspect ratio of
1.85:1 and lossy German 5.1 Dolby Digital Track, the film looks and
sounds fine for standard def DVD, but would benefit from a cleaner HD
transfer.
Special
Features include...
Making
Of featurette
Gag
Reel
A
fun watch for fans of horror and romance, I would suggest this film
if you're looking an interesting foreign language film in the vampire
genre.
-
James Lockhart
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