Night Junkies (Revisited)

DVD Release

Night Junkies (2007)
R1 / NTSC DVD
Allumination Films / 2007
Director: Lawrence Pearce
Writer: Lawrence Pearce
Cast: Katia Winters, Giles Anderson, Jonathan Coyne & Rene Zagger
Review By: Adam Tracey

Stop me when this sounds familiar. There is a killer on the streets, but he only kills the ‘bad’ people. Have you stopped me yet?

Ruby Stone is a stripper in a club that offers services that range a little more towards prostitution then they do stripping, but Stone hasn’t turned her first trick yet and she is under constant harassment from her boss to get on with it. One day on her way home, she ducks into a diner, sits down with a stranger and pretends he is her boyfriend in order to get away from some punks who have an eye for her. One thing leads to another, they have sex, he bites her and now she is a vampire. The two fight their need for blood while trying to dodge sketchy henchmen of the strip joint who has an obsession with her.

This movie is billed as the return of the hard edged vampire movie. This is playing off of the negative feedback the ‘erotic’ vampire movies have been getting. If placing a vampire movie in a strip joint and have every second girl naked and/or dancing is the way to make a vampire movie non-erotic I must have been sleeping through that class. The problem is this movie is not hard-edged or erotic. It is a well done movie and the acting is quite good, but the film itself doesn’t really hold together well.

To call this movie a vampire movie is really a discredit to the genre. The director uses vampirism as an allegory for addiction, which makes no sense since this movie is already filled with addictions be it drugs or sex, why the need to throw in addiction to blood? The movie is okay, but nothing to get all worked up about. There is a fair amount of nudity and violence and that always makes things interesting.