Night Junkies is what you get when the Muses bestow a flash of inspiration on a filmmaker who possesses neither talent nor skill. The end result is a good idea butchered almost beyond recognition and a movie that is only watchable when one of its attractive actresses gets naked.The talentless incompetent in this case is Lawrence Pearce and his inspiration is to portray vampires as the equivalent of heroin junkies. That's a promising genesis, but everything pretty much goes to hell after that. Pearce starts undermining his own premise from the very beginning by casting the male-model-like Giles Alderson as the main junkie vamp, Vincent. Junkies don't look like male models. They look like 2 miles of bad road after a flash flood and a cattle stampede. When you make the main bloodsucker character look as handsome and fresh faced as an Osmond brother from 1975, you've already lost the point of the "vampire as junkie" analogy.Anyway, Vincent hooks up with a stripper named Ruby (Karia Winter) and ends up turning her into a vampire. But Ruby is tortured by the memory of her drug addict father and vows to reject her compulsion for blood. Again, that's not a bad outline for conflict. But again, Pearce fails to fill in that outline with anything interesting. Ruby and Vincent meet, they have sex, he bites her, they have sex again, Vincent explains the "vampire junkie" concept to Ruby, they don't have sex again and Vincent tries to free Ruby from the clutches of her strip club owner and a stalkerish weirdo who works at the club. Then there's something about someone murdering whores and something else about a cure for vampirism, a lot of fancy editing that proves Lawrence Pearce has spent too much time looking at music videos and way too many moments that are supposed to be serious and suspenseful but are just laugh-out-loud funny.Let me give you an example of just how badly written Night Junkies is. The climax of the film is a fight between Ruby and Vincent and the stalkerish weirdo from the strip club. To start with, the weirdo is never called an actual name during the movie and is listed in the credits simply as "Psycho". Not "Psycho" as in, that was his nickname but "Psycho" as in "the stupidly pretentious writer/director thinks it's cool if the character doesn't have a real name". Whatever you call him, this doofus is supposed to be a deadly threat to Ruby and Vincent. But earlier in the film, Ruby kicks his ass twice all by herself. One time, she knocks him to the ground with a single slap. The other, she knocks him out with one whack to the head with a small lamp. How in the world is any viewer supposed to see "Psycho" as a legitimate menace after you establish him as a complete and utter wuss? Far too much of Night Junkies is like that, with basic storytelling errors and ineptitude turning a supposed gritty supernatural drama into a farcical disaster.Now, Karia Winter is cute as the dickins and does get buck naked. The movie also puts on display the amazing bosom of Lauren Adams, who plays one of Ruby's fellow strippers. Granted, Adams' boobs are so big, firm and perfect that they're probably fake. When they look that good, though, who cares?This film is also crammed full of crudity. Not just obscenity but a generalized vulgarity that might appeal to the terminally adolescent. And this English-made production also has one of the oddest collection of accents you'll ever hear. It's like every different British inflection you've ever heard on public television jammed into your ear all at once.But besides the quality female nudity, its generally coarse nature and some audio anthropology, Night Junkies has absolutely nothing to offer anyone. Unless you've got a taste for good ideas that get made into bad movies, skip this one.

Kudos to the filmmakers behind this for having the guts to make such an edgy new take on Vampire films in a country that is swamped with boring socio-realist dramas or wet romantic comedies.I've just finished watching Night Junkies, and finally, a film I love in a city I live in. Great stuff! I'll never walk past the Thames or look at Canary Wharf in the same way again.Bought my copy from the States (Amazon.com) and it's a multi-region copy by the way. So fellow Brits order it, and it's half price thanks to the favourable exchange rate. Haha!Oh and the old lady scene is inspirational! ;)Jamie

Ahh, yes! -Another take on the vampire lore! I like the fact that the writer of this thing is trying to do something different with the vampire idea (as others have tried to do). The basic change always seems to involve removing some of the traditional qualities of the vampire that most of us are familiar with. In this instance, the writer went for broke and removed almost everything but the need for blood.I'm none too happy with that.The vampires in Night Junkies seem like ordinary junkies or ordinary people with a chemical addiction. There is nothing eerie or supernatural in their appearance. FOR GODSAKE, THEY DON'T EVEN HAVE FANGS! IMAGINE THAT! Practically speaking, having extended incisors makes taking blood more efficient; "neater" in fact, since you need only make 2 puncture holes in the right place. However, with regular "human" teeth it becomes a messier affair as it requires some tearing of flesh to get what you want. We could therefore say that these particular vampires are not as evolved as traditional vampires with there long sharp "practical" fangs.I think the main reason for these untraditional vampires is that the writer (and most of the IMDb commentators) wants a fresh perspective and to "update" the vampire idea. I'm all for a fresh look at the vampire idea but I really believe you do a disservice to it when you take away the eeriness and creepiness of it; the "supernatural" or "otherworldly" flavor of it, if you will. This is a big part of what scares you. So why take it out by stripping the vampire of so much of their power? The vampires in this movie are horrific only in the sense that serial killers are. Nothing preternatural about them, just psycho. This is one reason I did not like the movie that much. But also, with these human-like vampires, the movie seemed more like a depressing slice of life of those who live on the fringes of society due to mental disorders, drug addiction, and prostitution. Everybody in this movie seemed depressingly dysfunctional. In fact this "vampire" movie comes off as a METAPHOR for drug addiction and the sad lives of those so addicted. So if you want to see this movie -BE WARNED! It is a drug addiction-type movie more than a "vampire" one.I guess some writers feel that the vampire idea is more believable (and more interesting) if they are more human than they traditionally are. There may be some truth to this. But I say there has to be a way that the traditional vampire who is able to become a bat, a wolf, smoke, and able to climb sheer walls and hypnotize the hell out of you could still be interesting to today's more sophisticated audience. Love, Boloxxxi.

Have you even seen a movie that by the time it ended you feel like you have been on the most intense ride of your life? Night Junkies did that for me and more....with horror films as they are today its hard to expect the unexpected....but Lawrence Pearce has done just that. He has taken the vampire genre and has amped it up into a totally new direction...it amazes me how effortlessly the director combined different elements to sync it all together to create such vivid characters and plot lines.....and a major kudos to the two leads in this movie played by Giles Alderson and Katia Winter...the chemistry between their characters basically leaps off the screen. That and the intensity of some of the scenes leaves you breathless...found myself jumping at many parts....and the sound of the name "Ruby" will be etched into your mind like "redrum"....All in all, every part of this movie screams out spectacular...to find out that this is the director's first foray into directing a film is applause worthy...and after seeing this film, I can only imagine what other treats Lawrence Pearce has in store for the future....Night Junkies is an absolute must see....to walk away from a movie and still be completely affected by it the next day is a stroke of genius....again, the smart vampire film is finally back!