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Frost: Portrait Of A Vampire

2001, Movie, R, 92 mins

Frost: Portrait Of A Vampire: Review

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Not every comic book movie is destined for instant cult status: Witer-director Kevin VanHook, a special effects expert who's worked on films like DAREDEVIL, wrote the comic on which this movie is based but botches the adaptation with a welter of visual cliches. Soldiers Jack Frost (Jeff Manzanares) and Nat McKenzie (C. R. Lister) were brothers in arms on a secret US mission in Afghanistan; Jack returned home and Nat didn't. Nat was bitten by a supernatural creature and reported as missing in action, but didn't die. Captured and imprisoned in Afghanistan, Nat realizes he's been bitten by a vampire, and his dormant bloodlust is activated by prison violence. Several years later, Jack has put down his Uzi and turned his back on his military past until an old comrade from the Afghanistan mission, San Diego police detective Dan (Shane Allen), solicits Jack's assistance solving a series of bizarre murders. Dan's believes that the living dead Nat has slipped back into the USA, which Jack pooh-poohs until he comes face to face with Nat in a sewer. Nat admits that he can barely control his craving for blood whenever he meets his wife, McKenzie (Karen Bailey). Conflicted, Jack consults a priest (Jeff Coatney), whom Nat later kills. Jack's begins a half-hearted campaign to put Nat out of his misery, advised by blind psychic Micah (Gary Busey). But Micah isn't telling them all he knows, even as Southern California is in danger of becoming Nat's private blood bank. Part post-traumatic stress disorder drama, part vampire movie and part buddy picture, this bloodsucking chiller delivers few chills. Novice director VanHook builds some eye-catching compositions around his one-dimensional characters, but doesn't seem to know how to bring them to life leave a comment --Robert Pardi
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