This not so epic vampire film tells the story of a shamed priest and an atheist surviving in a world where vampires have become the majority.First of all let me be clear this is really terrible! The acting is laughable, the random overreaction shouty outbursts are hilariously bad and the movie is heavily pro Christianity which really got my back up.The film almost felt like propaganda and of course it's the atheist that ends up dying not the Jesus figure the priest is blatantly painted as.All round total mess and not worth the time of anyone but the most hardcore of vampire movie fan.The Good: Nothing The Bad: The appalling acting The heavy pro Christianity vibe Things I learnt from this movie: All goths want to be vampires and are inherently evil Tattooing a cross on your forehead combats the undead

"Midnight Mass" opens with a promising three and a half minutes or so of news footage, showing how the world has been overtaken by a plague that has turned many people into vampires. Some of the humans that are left get dubbed "Vichys", because they've turned traitor and assisted the vampires for the purpose of extending their own life spans. Among those who are struggling to survive are the alcoholic former priest Joe Cahill (Douglas Gibson), and his young friend Gwen Waters (Pamela Karp), a devout atheist. The main dude that they're fighting is a Father Palmeri (Marvin W. Schwartz), who obviously doesn't mind forsaking being a man of God in order to live life as a blood sucker.Horror fans might be encouraged by the idea of author F. Paul Wilson ("The Keep") co- adapting one of his own stories. But while the premise isn't a bad one, the execution is simply boring. In the hands of co-writer / director / special makeup effects creator Tony Mandile, "Midnight Mass" doesn't offer anything truly unusual or interesting. For one thing, some of these annoying Vichys adopt the Goth look, and they fail to be very intimidating or entertaining at all. The gore by Mandile and others *is* passable, but it won't knock viewers out of their socks, either. It's all treated with an incredible amount of sincerity, and some people might appreciate the arc of the Gwen character. The haunting music score composed by John Angier will make you think that you're watching a better movie than you are. The script often focuses more on talk - including philosophical and theological debates - than action.The performances are all highly amateurish if sincere enough, but the characters are still pretty nondescript. Schwartz hams it up something fierce; Gibson is a dull hero. Director Mandile plays Finnegan; Wilson also appears on camera as Noah Randall.This wouldn't be something that this viewer would really recommend, no matter how much of a genre junkie an interested party might be.Five out of 10.

I loved this film. I am a big fan of F. Paul Wilson's work. This is more the way that an adaptation of Matheson's I Am Legend should be than the two films that have been made so far (The Omega Man and I Am Legend).It may have its faults, but this film went further toward recreating the claustrophobic fear of being surrounded by those who would kill (or eat) you as other. The film seemed very true to the book, something that is all too rare these days.I would recommend this to anyone looking for a cracking, good, old-fashioned vampire movie with less gore and more plot.

I'm a fan of F. Paul Wilson. I'm a die-hard Repairman Jack fan and I certainly hope that when he decides to put Jack in an actual film, he won't allow the dick(s) that massacred this story to do it. The novel Midnight Mass was truly an ass-kicker. So many of the critical characters were left out of this film. It is not hard to write a script from a novel and maintain all or at least most of the characters. The only positive thing I can say about this film is the lead in sequence of news footage. That was the best way to describe the vampire takeover of the world. The rest of it, needs to go back to the drawing board. This was obviously a rushed project without any serious thought being given to the book. F. Paul Wilson should be ashamed and the writers of this script should have a foot put up their asses and given a twist!