absinthechinadoll The is only the second time I have bothered to post a comment on a movie here, although I am constantly prowling through IMDb for movie suggestions. So to make it clear - I collect vampire movies - all of them, regardless if they are horrible or not. I bought this movie for only two reasons: 1. Sean Patrick Flanery. I think I might have fallen in love with him when he was in Boondock Saints. His character in this movie is a FAR cry from one of the Boondock Saints...but he pulled it off and was convincing.2. It's a vampire movie. And like I said, even if it's horrible, I'll still add it to my collection.So besides those two points, I had no idea what I was buying. It turned out to be great!!! OK, it's definitely a B-movie budget, so don't go into it expecting tons of special effects. Javier, the co-worker, is annoying enough to throw the movie away. His character is the only reason I disliked the movie. However, he does get his in the end, which makes the whole thing worth it. And hey - what a nice change, that vampires don't get burned to a crisp by the sun in the end! Now THAT alone makes this movie worth it for me.

Paul Andrews The Insatiable is set in Los Angeles where Harry Balbo (Sean Patrick Flannery) witnesses a female Vampire named Tatiana (Charlotte Ayanna) killing a homeless guy in an alley, he becomes obsessed with her & trying to track her down in order to kill her. However after Harry does track Tatiana down he cannot bring himself to decapitate her so he sets a trap for her, Harry lures her back to the apartment block he is the supervisor of & traps her in a reinforced steel cage in the basement. There Harry hopes to be able to convince Tatiana to change her murderous ways but it proves harder than Harry first anticipated & whatever happens Tatiana still needs fresh blood every night otherwise she will die...Co-written & co-directed by Chuck Konzelman & Cary Solomon this is yet another cheap looking low budget shot on a camcorder type horror film that litter video shelves everywhere, the one thing The Insatiable has going for it is that there is a reasonable idea behind it but ultimately it fails to distinguish itself & ends up being crap. The script by Konzelman, Solomon & J.R. McGarity has an intriguing twisted love type premise that could have made for a decent light hearted horror film, unfortunately due to a near two hour running time which is very hard to get through in one sitting, a pace so slow I almost fell asleep on several occasions, a serious lack of dramatic incident, several little sub plots which go nowhere, the general incompetence of the LA police & some poor character motivation The Insatiable turns out to be a waste of time & money. I suppose there are lots of little subtle things going on in the script, the way a prisoner can manipulate the captor, how someone can fall in love with someone evil hoping to change them, the futility of wanting something/someone you can't have & the rather more socially relevant consequences of slacking off work! I don't really know why films like The Insatiable exist, sure there might be a few people out there who take to the story & character's more than most but I would imagine they are few & far between & I firmly believe the majority of viewers will be both throughly bored & annoyed by watching The Insatiable in just about every way.I was lead to believe that the Insatiable was a horror film but apart from the fact that there's a Vampire in it you would be hard pressed to know most of the time, there is virtually no gore, no horror, no scares, no atmosphere, no tension & that just has to be a little bit disappointing. Apart from a ripped off arm there's no blood or gore, there's no nudity either. There's no real style here, it's pretty much point & shoot all the way. I just don't really understand who The Insatiable is meant to appeal to. Is it hardcore horror fans? Is it the oddball romantics out there? Is it the casual DVD buyer/renter? I can't really see it satisfying anyone to be honest. For those of you that make it to the end credits the temptation will more than likely be to switch the damned thing off as soon as you can but if you keep watching there's a bit more of the film that runs during them. In fact there's a scene with a letter which we are meant to read but since the version I saw was pan and scanned & the image was on the extreme right most of the letter was cut off at the side of the screen! If you keep watching even further after the credits have ended there's a seemingly pointless shot of a cute fluffy white rabbit.With a supposed budget of about $700,000 The Insatiable is reasonably well made with decent if unspectacular production values, set in Los Angeles but according to the IMDb shot in Austin in Texas. The acting is alright & there are a couple of eyebrow raising cast members, god knows how they got Sean Patrick Flannery to appear in this & it's always nice to see Michael Biehn of The Terminator (1984) & Aliens (1986) fame & I also have to say that he's bloody aged well hasn't he? I mean The Terminator was made over twenty years prior to The Insatiable yet he still looks almost exactly the same!The Insatiable could have been good, it had potential & an unusual storyline but a snail's pace, a jumbled up plot, an almost two hour running time that feels more like two days & overall one has to say The Insatiable is not a film that I have much fondness for.

TdSmth5 The vampire genre has got the be most abused genre in movie making. Movie makers just have no clue about what to do with it. When was the last time anyone made a great vampire flick? The latest catastrophe is The Insatiable. Marketed as some erotic horror movie it turns out to be a dull comedic romance, which is neither funny nor romantic. There is a lot of the awful Tarantino-esquire self-conscious direction and (mis)use of music to make things lighthearted. The story centers around a depressed loner loser (bad idea #1) who witnesses a vampire crime. Seen as a crazy guy or perpetrator by the police he takes matters into his own hands going online in search of help. He finds a reluctant vampire hunter with whom he chats online for long times (bad idea #2, people typing on keyboards is never interesting in a movie). He sets out to kill the vampire but being unable to do so chooses to take her captive in a cage in his basement. So most of the action/ interaction will take place between the main characters talking in a basement (bad idea #3). This is a looong, boring, Z-budget movie but with good production values. It's "not rated" but if it were, it's rating would be PG-13. Don't expect a gore fest or lots of sex and nudity- that's just the marketing trick applied to the title. We are told the vampire is insatiable but we have to take the character's words for it because we see no evidence of it. There's one two-second sex-in-clothes scene. Only in American movies do people have sex while clothed. Pretty soon you notice that the story isn't going to go anywhere. The male lead is sympathetic and likable but overacted as is one of his coworkers who plays the funny jerk non-stop. What keeps this movie from being a complete narcotic is the vampire who is a beautiful girl. There's also an attractive neighbor. Pretty but underused girls. The script shows some signs of intelligence here and there. The ending is "good" but given that the rest of the movie is so bad and one has absolutely no hopes or expectations that things will improve, any ending where something, anything happens, would have been good. We are told this thing was filmed in Austin although the only evidence that it wasn't filmed in California is that the girls have gorgeous hair, unlike the lifeless hair of lazy California girls. I was thinking it was filmed in Canada since it's so good natured and dull. Why it takes two directors to film this is a mystery. Half a director could have done it on a weekend. The credits mention a 'behind the scenes' director. Funny, there are no Behind the Scenes in the Special Feautures. In fact there are no extras on this DVD. A shame, any additional screen time of the girls would could have helped. Stay away from this mess.

Vampirebear13 This movie is like a much better remake of Dance of The Damned. Idiots who don't like this movie,know absolutely nothing about vampire legend,lore,background or movies. Vampires are all about being sexy+lustful. Vampire movies are not about some "bad guy" running around killing people. If you want those kinda flicks,stick to Freddy+Jason. This film was very well done and really it's worst flaw is (like a lot of big studio films) poor casting. Sean Patrick Flannery is a capable actor but completely wrong for this flick. His part should have gone to someone like Jon Cryer,but,Sean's career isn't flourishing like Jon's. If want to see what's basically the original of this film,find Dance of The Damned. (It's a vampire love story anyway) It was later remade into To Sleep With a Vampire with Alyssa Milano+Scott Valentine... now that was a complete waste of film.