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Blank Check with Griffin & David

John Carpenter’s Vampires with David Ehrlich

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

Tv & Film, Society & Culture, Comedy, Film Reviews

4.66.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2021

⏱️ 127 minutes

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Summary

They’re not just Vampires, they’re John Carpenter’s Vampires! “Closer in patina” to a classic Howard Hawks western than anything Carpenter’s ever done, this film is nasty, gruesome, and devoid of any of the “teenyboppers” and romanticism that had become hallmarks of the slasher and vampire genres, respectively. David Ehrlich (Indiewire) joins us as we go deep into the woods - James Woods, that is - and come out with the least memorable Baldwin brother. Strada Chocolata!

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0:00.0

I forget whatever you've seen in the movies, they don't turn to bats, crosses don't work

0:25.3

garlic, you want to try garlic, you could stay in there with garlic around your neck and

0:28.8

one of these buggers will bend you fucking over and take a walk up your strata chuck a lot of

0:33.3

while he's sucking the blood out of your neck, all right? And they don't sleep in coffins,

0:37.8

lined in taffeta, you want to kill one, you drive a wooden stake right into his fucking heart,

0:43.0

podcast turns him into crispy critters. Had to be that. It had to, but also God, it's so hard

0:49.3

to do a James Woods impression. I gave up one word in. You could live. I killed for a good

0:54.7

word. We're be undead for 600 years, but I would say you truly haven't lived until you've

1:00.0

heard James Woods say strata chuck a lot of strata chuck a lot of. I had to cut a couple lines out

1:06.2

from the beginning of that mile lock for the best. Yes. This man, this character,

1:12.3

Jack Rowe does not like homosexuals and he lets it be known all the time. In fact, he almost seems

1:18.0

to find them to be more demonic than vampires. You could say that it's one of his two personality traits.

1:23.9

I mean, where's leather and hates gay people? Yeah. He's afraid. You know, he do for vampires more,

1:30.0

probably. He's sort of knows what he's dealing with. Right. I was thinking though, because initially,

1:35.2

in my notes, I wrote down gay panic question mark at the first line and immediately had to

1:40.1

scratch out the question mark, but it then veers so far beyond. And then scratch up panic for fear.

1:45.4

It was so far beyond gay panic, but it's just outright homophobia. I was going to say,

1:51.2

it doesn't feel like this panicking. It's like, no, I very confidently know I don't like these people.

1:57.8

I don't respect the way they choose to live their lives and who they love. He's most upset because

2:02.7

Vlad the Impaler, whatever the fucking vampire's name is, Yon Balak. Valak. Valak. Valak.

2:07.6

The impaler. Whatever. This is embarrassing. Get out of here. Like vaguely resembles a gay stereotype.

2:14.2

Like that's really, I think, what would keep them up at night? The most triggering thing. Look,

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