Such a frustrating disappointment

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

This film is based on an actual incident which occurred in 1996. Cocky and charismatic Roderick "Rod" Justin Farrell (an excellent and compelling performance by Drew Fuller) is the leader of a gang of oddball outcast teenagers who think they are vampires. Rod brutally murders the parents of the reluctant Heather Ann Wendorf (well played by Kelly Kruger) and steals their car so the gang can go on the lam. Director John Webb, working from a grim and absorbing script by Aaron Pope, nicely captures the mixed-up Goth kids' warped fantasy world and alienated nihilistic mindset without ever passing judgment on the characters or resorting to lurid sensationalism. Moreover, Webb and Pope firmly ground the morbidly engrossing story in a completely plausible everyday reality. Better still, Webb and Pope admirably refuse to explain the kids' actions; instead they merely present these crazed youths as they are. This film further benefits from bang-up acting from an able cast, with especially praiseworthy work by Alex Breckenridge as sullen Charity Lynn Keesee, Timoty Derriest as the loopy, nerdy Howard Scott Anderson, Marina Black as the willful Dana Lynn Cooper, Larry Dirk as the folksy Sheriff Mike Dane, Mimi Craven as Heather's concerned mother Ruth, and David Wells as Heather's weary dad Rick. The outbursts of violence are genuinely startling in their abruptness and brutality. Kristian Bernier's slick cinematography, Guy Harrington's moody, shivery score, and the cool rock soundtrack are all up to speed. Worth a look.

If you go into this knowing this isn't a vampire movie and based on a true crime you'll appreciate it. My ex-room mate got this one for a party she was throwing thinking it was a vampire movie, but I knew more about the case personally because when it happened I was working at College of DuPage.The killer in the story tries to portray his reality as a vampire but he's just a disturbed individual himself. He leaves the teenager girl an orphan because of it -- and this also leads into how the author of the book would also end up writing the book based on the case.One of those movies you'll enjoy if you know what really happened and what lead into the movie. It is a true story. The movie emerged when my own true crime outing, The Cabbie Homicide: October 13, 1993 was made live. When one examines the events of the crime then go into this movie, they're in for nightmare fuel when they realize this happened. Though the writers of the movie form took some liberties on how the murderer looked as he was making faces at the camera and had very long hair when they dragged him through the courtroom.

For being a movie that is based on a true story, it was really great. I actually rented the DVD because Drew Fuller was in it and I really liked him as Chtistopher Perry Halliwel in 'Charmed'. He is good looking ans someone who can really put his emotions out there. It was surprisingly good because I saw some trailers of it and I didn't think I would like it. It was good and exiting and scary. The acting was good but it was kind of yucky sometimes. There were some parts where I thought: "okay, this is going a little bit to far." But it is all forgotten en forgiven because Drew is such a hot guy! The role of the girls was really good but I think that the other characters were a little bit 'flat'. But maybe they just didn't have enough facts and it's a little stupid for making thing up.

This movie shows the life of these 5 teenagers, Rod, Charity, Howard, Dana and Heather in 1996. They believe themselves to be vampires and are on there way to a meeting from New Orleans, Louisiana to Tallahasse, Florida where a big ritual will take place. Charity is pregnant with Rod's child yet is still going out with Heather. Rod invites Heather to Florida yet her parents won't let her, so Rod takes it upon himself to make it possible by murdering Mr and Mrs Wendorf with a crowbar. At first Rod and Howard wanted to steal there car yet the keys were inside the house and Rod looks for a weapon which finds to be a crowbar in the garage and enters the house and kills Mr Wendorf first while he is watching t.v while waiting for Mrs Wendorf to come downstairs. In a dispute Mrs Wendorf throws hot coffee onto Rod and he smack her across the head with the crowbar. They get the car, some money and valubles. Later on Rod confesses to Heather he murdered her parents and she brakes down cries. Towards the end of the movie they run out of money and asks Dana's mom to wire them some money but in the process the ploice track them down and arrest them and the rest is history. So it is a good movie all round and shows when people are taking things too far....