Bite Marks (2011) Review

Bite Marks is a goofy tongue in cheek horror flick featuring vampires, truckers and gay tourists. The movie starts us out with Brewster a somewhat down and out trucker who gets called to do a run his brother was supposed to do. He reluctantly accepts and hits the road with his cargo - coffins. Along the way he meets two gay tourists Cary and Vogel and agrees to give them a lift. What ensues next is a game of survival as the three have to fight off a fiendish horde of vampires and vampiresses who seemingly appear out of nowhere. All is not what it would seem however and the unlikely troupe will have to work out just what is going on.

To say Bite Marks is laden with an undercurrent of homosexuality would be a lie. Its's laden overtly with homosexuality. This really is what you'd call a gay horror, that's not to say it's a bad movie, though on the other hand it isn't what you'd call amazing either. Firstly, The acting quality is ropey, this is especially true at the beginning. Things do get better once the blood and guts start to fly and the movie develops more pace but to start with the actors seem a bit damp.

The movie has a reasonable amount of gore, enough to keep gorehounds satisfied, though don't go looking for anything spectacular. Bite Marks is a low budget b-movie so it stands to reason that production levels are not going to be top notch, having said that i've seen movies do a whole lot worse than what we see here and generally speaking if your used to b-movie production values you should'nt have any issues with this flick in that regard.

Sadly i didn't find Bite marks scary or funny for that matter. It's OK (assuming you don't have any 'issues' with gayness) but as a whole the thing feels a bit light, had they up'd the ante with the horror things would have been better, in my opinion. They've put in Stephen Geoffreys (Evil from the original Fright Night - who looks a whole lot older now) but even he can't elevate this one to recommended status. As it stands unless your actively looking for some gay comedy horror or you think this could make a decent change from your usual watching routine (for whatever reason) i'd say avoid this one.

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Movie DetailsDirector: Mark Bessenger
Writer: Mark Bessenger
Actors: Benjamin Lutz, Windham Beacham, David Alanson, Krystal Main
Release Year: 2011
Related Links: Breaking Glass Pictures

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Posted On

Jan 20, 2012

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Gladys the Impaler

RE: Bite Marks (2011) Review
Gay Dracula, a pain in the ars...neck?

Does he sleep in a cottage instead of a coffin?

Is he a little batty?

Don't go out on a clear night, he can see Uranus?

Sorry.

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