Eternal Blood
Eternal Blood
| 31 October 2002 (USA)
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Carmila is introduced by 'M' to a sinister role-playing game called "Eternal Blood". Once settled in an abandoned house, the group meets Dahmer, a young man who practices vampirism rites and who begins to influence young people, or perhaps... turn them into vampires.

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Paul Andrews

Sangre Eterna is set in Chile where three Goth friends M (Juan Pablo Ogalde), Elizabeth (Patricia López) & Martin (Claudio Espinoza) are heavily into a Vampire role-playing game, a bit like Dungeons & Dragons. Meanwhile high school student Carmila (Blance Lewin) has to interview an 'interesting' person for a class project, for some reason she ask's M if he will be her interviewee. M introduces Carmila to the Vampire role-playing game & they, erm, play it. Then, while at a party, M believes that the host Dahmer (Carlos Borquez) is a real life Vampire & is trying to steal his friends away from him...Known to English audiences as Eternal Blood this Chilean production was co-written & directed by Jorge Olguín & one has to say that I thought it was crap & it's as simple & straight forward as that. The script by Olguín & Carolina García is a complete mess, it tries to do something a little bit different but as a near two hour feature film it is incredibly painful to sit through in one go. While watching this it felt like it lasted two days rather than two hours. The character's are awful, the dialogue is awful & I am not sure what the film was trying to do or who it was trying to appeal to. Is this meant to be pro or anti Goth culture? The story is a total mess, there are two horrible, horrible twists in Sangre Eterna which left me both frustrated & annoyed. The twists also have the unwanted consequence of ruining everything that has gone before, the events of Sangre Eterna is either down to a lunar eclipse, Goth Vampire role-playing freaks, drugs, hallucinations, parental neglect or all of the above! You can take your pick because the film never explains itself or gives any real motivation or reason for anything that happens. Then there's the final twist ending in which a supposedly dead person open their eyes which again just contradicts everything, & I mean everything that has gone before including a big twist mere minutes before. This film is a really boring mess that will leave most sane people frustrated, irritated, annoyed & if they are lucky asleep.Director Olguín does nothing special, the film is so tedious, about thirty or forty minutes too long & doesn't make any sense. Seriously if you sit down & think about it, consider all the twists & Sangre Eterna falls apart as it simply doesn't make any sort of sense. As the end credits roll I felt nothing but anger & annoyance as well as being glad that it had finished. Forget about any gore, there's a decent ripped-off head in a fantasy sequence but nothing else & the lack of horror, scares & atmosphere kills the film deader than a stone. It's some sort of horrible cross between a teen Goth soap opera & a horror film. Even the Chilean locations aren't used to any great effect.With a supposed budget of about $25,000 the makers of Sangre Eterna were obviously working on a low budget which accounts for the lack of action, horror, special effects or gore but it's still no excuse for such a poor script & such a bad film. Shot in Spanish Sangre Eterna was dubbed into English, very badly. In fact I haven't seen such a bad dub job on a film since they heyday of the Italian gore film during the late 70's & early 80's which is saying something.Sangre Eterna is a terrible film, if you like watching low budget boring horrible poorly scripted confusing messes then by all means give it a go. If you are looking for an entertaining horror film with some good dramatic incident, a story that makes sense & doesn't bore you to death then avoid Sangre Eterna at all costs.

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Jessie Duran

I'm a fan of horror films and of vampires, my favorite is an old film called Near Dark, for that reason when I could obtain a copy of this films was amazing! It's a film that is centered in the drama of a group of young people disillusioned of the life and they become jumbled in a subworld of urban vampires. I have seen much garbage of Hollywood with greater budget and this film it's a breathing and demonstrates that the budget is not everything. My favorite scene is when the protagonists it has very particular a loving encounter… to Marilyn Manson had liked to be there. It has interesting a sound track of bands of rock in Spanish, but apparently he is hard to find, in any case in DVD American you can find some videos. It's very Gothic, there is good make-up type "Buffy" and far very entertained, with a surprising end

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badgirlkane

First off this is this director's 2nd film and before everyone rips it pieces could you do better had you been the director with their budget? I really enjoyed this Spanish-version vampire film as it's was done not in a style reminscent of American,Asian,or European horror films that we've all seen before. Juan Olgade is a very good actor and a drop-dead lookalike of Robert Downey jr. The version I saw was unrated and very gory and I apperciate the ending where dumb people will go "Huh" and those of us who actually paid attention will be like where there's 2 ways to explain whether or not they were vampires at all? Very good foregin horror film compared to others that I've seen. ** out of *****

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sebastiengerber

This vampire's movie is one of the worst I've ever seen.Every thing in this movie is awful.there is nothing to remember in Sangre Eterna.It's really sad, because, I'd liked to see the vampire's mythology revisited.

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