[STAKE LAND opens July 29th for 1 week only at the Capitol Theatre]
Review by Bob Ignizio
It seems like only last week I was lamenting how vampires can't be vampires in the movies anymore. Actually it was 2 weeks ago in my review of PRIEST. Thankfully STAKE LAND isn't anywhere near the kind of cinematic train wreck that film was. But I've got to call 'em like I see 'em, and as far as I'm concerned, the monsters in STAKE LAND are more like zombies than vampires. They're mindless, ugly walking corpses that feed on blood instead of brains. You still stake 'em in the heart (hence the film's name), although as long as you sever the spinal cord you're good, too. They don't take too well to sunlight, either, but that doesn't really come up much in the movie. Anyway, it's all in the way they crawl and shamble about. Zombies, I tell ya.
