Night Junkies

A GRITTY, DIFFERENT KIND OF VAMPIRE FILM
I hesitate to call Night Junkies a vampire film because it is well outside the normal convention of that genre. Night Junkies is a gritty, urban street drama about a pair of addicts, Ruby and Vincent. Only they are not addicted to drugs or alcohol---their addiction is to blood. Ruby (Katia Winter) is a dancer at a seedy London strip club. The club's owner, Maxi, is pressuring Ruby and the other dancers, to perform "other services" besides just lap dances.

Ruby meets Vincent (Giles Alderson) at a coffee house and finds herself intrigued by the handsome, brooding, and soft-spoken man. Their meeting leads to a one-night stand but turns to horror as Vincent bites Ruby on the throat. Thinking he's simply a psycho Ruby flees back to the club and into a beating from Maxi for failing to collect any money from her tryst. Ruby soon is overcome by illness and confronts Vincent who reveals what he is, and what Ruby is now. They don't use the word vampire but Vincent explains that holy...

A Believable Vampire movie?
An amazing film. The director shot a moving piece of art. Light is strong, the lead is sexy, & as unbelievable as it may sounds it's an almost believable vampire movie. You can't go wrong as long as you don't pay an arm and a leg, but in my opinion it is definitely one of the better modern vampire films out there.

Gritty?
Gritty? When I saw that review I had to write my own. "Night Junkies" is not a gritty film. Nor is it that far outside the genere, as the vampire-as-junkie film has only recently been done elsewhere; e.g. "I Pass For Human", & "The Thirst". This has better production values than those two films I'll grant it that.

But there's something that peeves me about a film that deceives from the very front cover - featuring a girl with puncture marks in her neck. There's no fangs in this film. Instead the vampires tear into the throats of their victims.

This serves only to trick people into buying a film they might otherwise avoid.

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