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Buffy The Vampire Slayer: The Movie
		Media:  Rating:  Format: Full Screen (Standard) - 1.33:1  System: NTSC  Runtime: 86 min  Audio Format: Dolby Surround  Captioning: Y Fran Rubel Kuzui's 1992 tongue-in-cheek vampire comedy is sugarcoated horror, an unusual mix of the cute and scary, with a splash of postmodern pop nonsense to give culture critics something to think about. Kristy Swanson plays a Valley Girl who learns she belongs to a line of ancient vampire killers. After training under the watchful eye of a mentor (Donald Sutherland), she becomes a spandex-wearing, kung-fu kicking, stake-stabbing babe and the mortal enemy of a narcissistic master vampire (Rutger Hauer). The accent is all on cheery attitude, though the action can be as authentically unnerving as any other halfway decent monster movie. Paul Reubens, formerly Pee-wee Herman, has a small role as Hauer's fanged familiar.

The Lost Boys
		Media:  Rating:  Format: Full Screen (Standard) - 1.33:1  System: NTSC  Runtime: 97 min  Audio Format: Dolby  Captioning: Y This 1987 thriller was a predictable hit with the teen audience it worked overtime to attract. Like most of director Joel Schumacher's films, it's conspicuously designed to push the right marketing and demographic buttons, and granted, there's some pretty cool stuff going on here and there. Take Kiefer Sutherland, for instance. In Stand by Me he played a memorable bully, but here he goes one step further as a memorable bully vampire who leads a tribe of teenage vampires on their nocturnal spree of bloodsucking havoc. Jason Patric plays the new guy in town, who quickly attracts a lovely girlfriend (Jami Gertz), only to find that she might be recruiting him into the vampire fold. The movie gets sillier as it goes along, and resorts to a routine action-movie showdown, but it's a visual knockout (featuring great cinematography by Michael Chapman) and boasts a cast that's eminently able (pardon the pun) to sink their teeth into the best parts of an uneven screenplay.

Wes Craven Presents Dracula II: Ascension
		Media:  Rating:  Format: Full Screen (Standard) - 1.33:1  System: NTSC  Runtime: 85 min  Audio Format: Dolby Surround  Captioning: Y Dracula II: Ascension is a sequel to Dracula 2000, with the ageless vampire again returning from apparent extinction. The twist is that Dracula's blood will be used by a researcher to reverse the effects of a crippling disease; Sheffer's assistants will help. Joining this scientific survey is long-haired vampire slayer Jason Scott Lee, who seems to have stalked in from another picture--but never mind Roy Scheider, whose wizened priest might be onscreen for all of 60 seconds. After a reasonably lively opening half-hour, this cheapie devolves into the usual blood-letting and illogical behavior. Some of the vampire lore is pretty diverting (did you know a vampire must untie every knot he sees?), but Dracula II is strictly for enthusiasts of the genre.

Wes Craven Presents: Dracula 2000 (2000)
		Media:  Rating:  Format: Full Screen (Standard) - 1.33:1  System: NTSC  Runtime: 99 min  Audio Format: Dolby Surround  Captioning: Y

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