Martin - Will's Review

A tough one to review this week, as I can see what the filmmakers were trying to do, and it was an interesting idea, but the end result seems to be something that's far easier to appreciate, than to actually enjoy. 

Martin appears to all the world to be a shy young man in his early 20's, in reality, he is a killer, who drugs women, cuts them, and drinks their blood; we know for sure that Martin does these thing, we see it happen in one of the movies first scenes. 

While we are sure of what Martin does, less certain is what he <i>is</i>... Most of Martins family (and even Martin himself> believe he is an 80+ year old vampire vampire; whether this is true, a group delusion in response to murderace tendencies, or even a family superstition which is the cause of his mental state and murdorous behaviour is never clear, and forms the bulk of the movies interest. 

I enjoyed the portrayal of Martin as a shy, oddly disquieting, character, but (think the paper thin story) it would have been better suited to a one hour short film than an almost two hour feature. 

Savini takes credit for special effects, but I'm really not sure why he was hired for the job, as there's little in the way of effects to tax eve a novice SFX student. 

It's the kind of movie I cani magine the type of film I can imagine someone watching for fun, in their lesure time.  

That said, the rest of the internet seems to have nothing but nice things to say about the film, so  what do I know?