BOGIEVILLE

CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS

I don't want to spend too much time on this very low-budget British vampire movie (why should I? They didn't) but I suppose it should be mentioned in passing. A young couple on the run stop off at an abandoned caravan park and find themselves trapped there as caretakers to the resident warring vampires. Fine, except that it's set in Atlanta, Georgia yet is quite clearly and undisguisedly shot in Surrey: Godalming may be in the South but it's not the Deep South. All that has been done to suggest the setting is to have the all-Brit cast speak in American accents and drive a bunch of left-hand drive cars: they haven't even changed the road signs or redressed the obviously British petrol station to reflect US gas prices.

The best thing about Bogieville really is the vampire teeth that most of the cast have to wear; the trouble is they have to speak through them as well and a lot of dialogue is pretty well indecipherable. Some of the effects for the vampires burning in sunlight are perfectly okay, though Near Dark looked a hell of a lot better and that was over thirty years ago. It's fairly bloody, but there's really not enough in the movie to maintain interest.

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