Regardless of what some of the more culturally-challenged who posted disparaging reviews about this film, it was actually quite interesting and insightful. These reviewers probably cannot see past their own backyards, yet alone the broader sense of a world full of diverse people. How can you judge people for something you cannot understand, even after having it just explained to you? This film will drop you into many different groups and show you what they believe and how they live, it doesn't matter what you believe, they're simply showing you what they believe. The camera was definitely documentary style and there were quite a few shots of strangeness that will leave you with either a laugh or strange thought. All in all, this was a cool film with some interesting fashions and styles. The only question I really had in the end was "What do these people do for a living?" They have to be doing something to afford their lifestyle, but outside of the tattoo artist, what else? Check it out and avoid the disparaging comments as they were probably written by the same type of individual they talking trash about.

Meet Lestat and Count Dracula, oups pardon me, Lord Zillah and Rex Black… Beautifully shot by night, eerie music, Vampyres tells the story of a journalist who stumbles upon a vampiric clan and the investigation that follows. The openness of the vampyres in front of the camera is truly amazing and you understand quite quickly why this movie took few years to shot (I mean just to earn the trust of the so-called children of the night, it must have taken some time). You get to see a side of America not easily seen, another side of the fence where you'd better join a clan of vampyres to keep you off the road to jail. Yes, the blood scene is riveting, but this movie is not exclusively for the gore fan. You' ll keep thinking of this movie and asking yourself questions for days. Only criticism, I wish the movie lasted longer as I didn't want it to end.

The movie "Vampyres" which i saw in Valencia will confirm Jamaicans in the idea that Babylon has lost control again: shots of tens of boys and girls, white, black, Puertoricans, dressed up in leather, walking the street of the Queens at night in silence, looking like they came straight out of Walter Hill's The Warriors... until they open their mouths and you make out the canines, the long sharp teeth... the fangs. And then you understand that Blade's children are out on the streets and are multiplying. For the first time I see a film showing the film industry its reflection in the mirror of society. Hey Hollywood horror machine, this is what you do to the people. Not to everybody. No just to the most fragile, socially or psychologically youngsters of America. As in everything there is a good side: calling themselves Lord, Count and Countess, like the old European degenerate vampires of the XIXth century allows these guys to access social status, which society denies them otherwise. A guy who lived in a cardboard box says it: being a Vampyre took him off the streets. He became somebody and found a new dignity. But for the rest. Scary. The blood drinking sequences are very tough. The cannibal guy testimony is one of the scariest I ever came across. By the way how come this guy is not in a hospital, he's the real Hannibal Lecter, did he eat his nurse??? The music reminded me of Goblins at times. Don't watch Vampyres late at night and not by yourself, especially if your skin is white and delicate.

Seeing people with fangs and the vampiric attitude reminds me of my high school when I was Larping ( live-action role playing). Fortunately I outgrew having my fangs glued on running around in a trench coat at night pretending I am a supernatural creature spawned of the devil himself.These people didn't.I don't care of what they are saying about themselves."I am a predator" "It represents how i FEEL inside" Granted they all look fantastic if you are into these aestethical choices, I truly think all of them suffer from a great social awkwardness since they have this urge to distinguish themselves from the rest of humanity, otherwise their shallow personalities might not be enough for a real sense of identity.As the unnamed shop guy with rastas says "It all depends on what kind of vampire you feel you are". This is all just glamor and Hollywood worship. Nothing more than that. Nothing more than a business with scarce customers.Now for the meeting where they distribute territories and everything. It is EXACTLY what we use to do while "Larping" minus the hand gestures, power displays and rock-paper-scissors. To think of it that was very fun and slightly less moronic than actually thinking we were vampires.I have a question for all these people. Are you so insecure about yourself that you have to make sure EVERYBODY KNOWS that you are 'dark' and dangerous? When you probably aren't the child raping cannibal you project.The choice of blood drinking is an odd one but then again it is totally your choice. I just think you'd better make sure that blood isn't infected with some crass disease.But then again your vampiric stomach acids will vampirize them. And for the human sacrifice they rave about? If there is such a thing, it is manslaughter and I don't care "vampire" or not, you deserve to be trialed and put into jail.The documentary in itself is very very ordinary. The music is very generic, the photography is very bland. Agreed that this filmed only at night,still there is no memorable shots. No real structure, just a sloppy overview of the next-gen Gothics. It took three years to film this? I didn't had any sense of that apart from that monotone narrator. I also would have love subtitles instead of cheesy over-acted voiceovers. Definitely a documentary to see only for the people who were or are into Vampiric things.