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Blood Ties

1991 1h 40m Horror List
Reviews 59% Popcornmeter 1,000+ Ratings
An armed hate group hunts a clan of Los Angeles vampires (Patrick Bauchau, Harley Venton, Jason London) who prefer to be called Carpathians.

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Audience Member This film reminds me of the series Kindred: The Embraced (a vampiric Dynasty), and stars Patrick Bauchau from Kindred as one of the heads of the Carpathian American clan of vampires. They've evolved and melded into modern society... they can walk in daylight and control their need to feed, but when a group of hunters start killing them off they get to go a bit crazy. It had all the makings of a good 80's vamp flick, they even had their own bad boys riding motorbikes, reminiscent of The Lost Boys, unfortunately they didn't quite pull it off. The storyline ambles along at a slow pace, there's not a great deal of action, fangs or blood, and the vampires don't really have much in the way of special powers... they can jump a bit and have about 30% more strength than a human, but so could I if I went to the gym more regularly! Okay to watch once, but that's about it. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/28/23 Full Review Audience Member A modern vampire movie that unlike "Twilight" is not marketed to teenage girls. I always dig up this movie on halloween. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review Audience Member Liked the whole lilian thing, interesting... Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review Audience Member Not a bad little film. I think it was made for TV and I suspect they intended it as the pilot of a series. Never happend. "Carpathian Americans" are vampires but not in the classic sense. They walk around in the daylight for instance. The film seems to view the vampire as less than the usual "undead" and more as some kind of mutant off-shoot of humanity with a prediliction for drinking human blood. The very hot Michelle Johnson stars as one of the Carpathian-Americans. She did a lot of movies and TV work in the late 1980s and early 1990s but now is in the "where are they now?" file. Bo Hopkins plays the leader of a band of redneck Vampire hunters, the Southern Coalition Against Vampires (SCAV). Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/24/23 Full Review Audience Member The best part of this film is the portable tent/coffin the vampire main character sleeps in. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/08/23 Full Review Audience Member I haven't seen this movie for years but at the time i loved the way they portrayed the vampire legend. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/05/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis An armed hate group hunts a clan of Los Angeles vampires (Patrick Bauchau, Harley Venton, Jason London) who prefer to be called Carpathians.
Director
Jim McBride
Production Co
Richard & Esther Shapiro Productions
Genre
Horror
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Oct 19, 2019
Runtime
1h 40m
Sound Mix
Stereo, Surround
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