Watched the trailer on one of CHUD's ad banners. Looks... interesting. The quote on the ad (from Fangoria) says "Underworld meets Children of Men". It releases on dvd on 7/17 and has Dougray Scott (MI:2, Dark Water) and Saffron Burrows (Deep Blue Sea, Troy) in it. Anybody know anything about it? Reccommendations/warnings? Anyone know why this has been on the shelf for a couple years to finally make it to Direct-to-Video? Definitely has a The Breed, Underworld, or Ultraviolet sci-fi vamp vibe to it.
imdb's plot synopsis had this to say:
Set during the 1960s in an alternate New Zealand known as Nuovo Zelandia, PERFECT CREATURE imagines a world where vampires and humans peacefully co-exist, with the bloodsuckers the next step in human evolution. This delicate balance looks to be destroyed when an influenza epidemic begins to sweep the human population and one vampire turns to preying on humans. The church sends out Silus (Scott) to catch the renegade vampire, Edgar. Silus joins forces with a human police captain (Burrows), and discovers that Edgar harbors dark secrets.
Perfect Creature is a highly original retelling of the vampire myth set in an alternate version of the 1960s and 70s, as science fiction and horror coalesce in a suspenseful, elegant action film about race, serial killings and the capacity of human beings to hope.
http://www.chud.com/index.php?type=movies&id=5499
CHUD write-up from 2 years ago:
Fox sunk their teeth into the sci-fi vampire tale Perfect Creature. The movie, directed by Glenn Standring and starring Dougray Scott and mega-lipped Saffron Burrows, is a cop story set in a futuristic society where humans and bloodsuckers co-exist. Sounds like Alien Nation with fangs. Or the Adrian Paul cheapie The Breed. Same thing, really.
imdb's plot synopsis had this to say:
Set during the 1960s in an alternate New Zealand known as Nuovo Zelandia, PERFECT CREATURE imagines a world where vampires and humans peacefully co-exist, with the bloodsuckers the next step in human evolution. This delicate balance looks to be destroyed when an influenza epidemic begins to sweep the human population and one vampire turns to preying on humans. The church sends out Silus (Scott) to catch the renegade vampire, Edgar. Silus joins forces with a human police captain (Burrows), and discovers that Edgar harbors dark secrets.
Perfect Creature is a highly original retelling of the vampire myth set in an alternate version of the 1960s and 70s, as science fiction and horror coalesce in a suspenseful, elegant action film about race, serial killings and the capacity of human beings to hope.
http://www.chud.com/index.php?type=movies&id=5499
CHUD write-up from 2 years ago:
Fox sunk their teeth into the sci-fi vampire tale Perfect Creature. The movie, directed by Glenn Standring and starring Dougray Scott and mega-lipped Saffron Burrows, is a cop story set in a futuristic society where humans and bloodsuckers co-exist. Sounds like Alien Nation with fangs. Or the Adrian Paul cheapie The Breed. Same thing, really.
