It's not perfect but James Woods has serious swagger and it's a fun time

| Nov 3, 2024

A well-wrapped horror package from a master of the macabre.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 13, 2024

Manages to inject the vampire subgenre with just enough fresh perspectives to keep it afloat, yet still doesn't do enough to become a standout entry in that realm.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 22, 2023

...the action is hard and fast, and there's an elegiac, weary mood that makes this film stand out from the horror crowd...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 11, 2021

...fares best in its over-the-top yet completely captivating first act...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 30, 2020

Vampires is unmistakably the work of Carpenter, full of gory action and gruff characters.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 8, 2019

The picture isn't anything special, but by the standards of late-career Carpenter, it'll have to do.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 28, 2019

Vampires is a mixed bag. It's clear that John Carpenter is still having fun whilst making this movie. And John Carpenter having fun is something the world generally benefits from.

| Jan 27, 2019

So, John Carpenter's Vampires stinks, and "Paul Tatara's Review of John Carpenter's Vampires" won't be a review so much as it'll be a check list for posturing teenage boys.

| Feb 9, 2018

This is Carpenter in prime form. Easily his most violent film, it features iconoclast heroes with a streak of misogyny and unrepentant machismo, which provides a perverse comic book irony. These guys are emissaries of the Vatican...

| Aug 26, 2017

| Original Score: C- | Sep 7, 2011

| Original Score: B | Jul 9, 2011

A suspense-free snark-fest desperate to turn its protagonist - vampire slayer Jack Crow (James Woods) - into a Snake Plisskin-style icon of supernatural-badass cool.

| Original Score: C- | Jun 5, 2011

All in all, Carpenter does a good job with this stylish and scary vampire movie, giving us a great leading hero and a great villain.

| Apr 29, 2009

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 27, 2007

Grungy, disreputable fun -- the kind of blood-and-tequila western that can only be made nowadays when disguised as a horror movie.

| Original Score: B | Jul 25, 2007

Very good, very basic, stripped-down film fueled by a bluesy guitar score.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 3, 2007

Woods is entertaining as badass vampire hunter Jack Crow, but the meanness he exhibits toward his young priest assistant is offensive and completely unnecessary. Still, this is Carpenter's best film since the 1980s ended.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Mar 4, 2006

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Apr 12, 2004