{"id":97128,"date":"2020-10-25T10:52:33","date_gmt":"2020-10-25T07:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-vampire-in-retreat-has-bloody-fun-in-the-sun\/"},"modified":"2020-10-25T10:52:33","modified_gmt":"2020-10-25T07:52:33","slug":"the-vampire-in-retreat-has-bloody-fun-in-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-vampire-in-retreat-has-bloody-fun-in-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"#The Vampire in Retreat&#8217; Has Bloody Fun in the Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a5026565e0bc\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a5026565e0bc\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-vampire-in-retreat-has-bloody-fun-in-the-sun\/#What_is_%E2%80%98Sundown_The_Vampire_in_Retreat_about\" >What is \u2018Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat\u2019 about?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-vampire-in-retreat-has-bloody-fun-in-the-sun\/#What_makes_%E2%80%98Sundown_The_Vampire_in_Retreat_sublime\" >What makes \u2018Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat\u2019 sublime?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-vampire-in-retreat-has-bloody-fun-in-the-sun\/#And_in_conclusion%E2%80%A6\" >And in conclusion\u2026<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#The Vampire in Retreat&#8217; Has Bloody Fun in the Sun<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\">\n                <\/aside>\n<p><!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 3.7.7--><em>Welcome to\u00a0<strong>The Prime Sublime<\/strong>, a weekly column dedicated to the underseen and underloved films buried beneath page after page of far more popular fare on Amazon\u2019s Prime Video collection. We\u2019re not just cherry-picking obscure titles, though, as these are <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a> that we find beautiful in their own, often unique ways. You might even say we think they\u2019re sublime\u2026 and this week we\u2019re heading west for a horror\/comedy\/western hybrid called Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cSublime \/s\u0259\u02c8bl\u012bm\/: of such excellence, grandeur, or beauty as to inspire great admiration or awe\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>The horror\/western subgenre should really be considerably bigger than it is. Don\u2019t get me wrong, there are definitely some great ones, but I\u2019m saying there should be more. More! Monsters vs cowboys\/cowgals against an unforgiving landscape populated with epic scenery, gun play, and western tropes? Yes please. Of the ones we do have, a surprising number of them have embraced a comedic style along with the western terror. Of those, one stands out as being severely under-<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>reciated. Its name? <strong><em>Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat<\/em><\/strong> (1989).<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_is_%E2%80%98Sundown_The_Vampire_in_Retreat_about\"><\/span>What is \u2018Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat\u2019 about?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The desert town of Purgatory is a quiet little place with an odd little population, and it\u2019s rarely disturbed by outsiders. That\u2019s probably for the best as the citizens \u2014 every last one of them \u2014 are vampires. Settled a century prior by a mysterious benefactor named Jozek Mardulak (<strong>David Carradine<\/strong>, whose turn as Dracula here comes twenty-three years after his father John played the character in <em>Billy the Kid Versus Dracula<\/em>), the town is a vampiric experiment that he hopes will lead to the eventual co-habitation between his bloodsuckers and everyday humans. He teaches bloody abstinence, and with the aid of a new synthetic blood he\u2019s been weening his fellow vamps off of the red stuff all together.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a tenuous victory, though, as a rebellion is forming in their midst of vampires who miss the taste of the real stuff. They see no reason to spare human lives, and soon the ideological battle will spill into the dusty streets with violence.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_makes_%E2%80%98Sundown_The_Vampire_in_Retreat_sublime\"><\/span>What makes \u2018Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat\u2019 sublime?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>If you were a fan of fun but bloody horror in the late 80s and early 90s, then odds are you were a fan of director <strong>Anthony Hickox<\/strong>. He burst onto the genre scene in 1988 with the still-glorious <em>Waxwork<\/em>, a horror\/comedy that pits a maniacal David Warner against some rowdy young adults looking for a good time in his wax museum. It\u2019s a funny, stylish, and bloody romp that earned a sequel from Hickox before seeing him move on to other franchise follow-ups including <em>Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth<\/em> (1992) and <em>Warlock: The Armageddon<\/em> (1993). Before those sequels and his eventual shift into direct-to-video action films, though, he blended genres with the goofy blast that is <em>Sundown: Vampire in Retreat<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Hickox\u2019s script is clearly having fun with vampire mythology, and while the standards are all there they often come with some twists. The sun, for example, isn\u2019t that big of a deal anymore thanks to modern day advances like SPF 100 sunscreen. The vamps cover up with sunglasses and big hats, but they stay safe through the liberal use of the lotion. Similarly, while old-fashioned stakes through the heart still work, Hickox modifies things a bit by having his mischievous rebels load up their revolvers with wood-tipped bullets. He even finds some fresh angles on the vampires turning into bats as they talk and come to life via stop-motion animation.<\/p>\n<p>While set in modern day, <em>Sundown<\/em> keeps its feet fully entrenched in the world of westerns with everything from its iconography to its score. Revolvers, horseback riding, dudes in dusters, and an old school town jail add to the atmosphere, and <strong>Richard Stone<\/strong>\u2018s score brings big action beats to life with rousing instrumentals that sound straight out of classic westerns. It\u2019s old-school fun as dueling bands of vampires collide on main street and heroes emerge from the fray.<\/p>\n<p>Hickox pulled together a terrifically charismatic cast for the film too. While Carradine chews some scenery as the lead vampire, <strong>Bruce Campbell<\/strong> brings the funny as a descendant of the famed Professor Van Helsing. A platinum blonde <strong>Deborah Foreman<\/strong> is doing her best Veronica Lake as a vamp, and Campbell\u2019s visible ecstasy while she bites him is a laugh out loud moment. <strong>Maxwell Caulfield<\/strong> plays a slick-haired \u201cyoung\u201d punk of a vamp who not only wants to return to killing humans but also wants to take a man\u2019s wife for his own \u2014 they canoodled previously, before he became a member of the undead, and he\u2019s an absolute dick to the woman\u2019s husband who he keeps reminding of the fact. The ensemble is rounded out with some welcome and friendly faces including <strong>M. Emmet Walsh<\/strong>, <strong>Dana Ashbrook<\/strong>, <strong>George \u201cBuck\u201d Flower<\/strong>, <strong>Bert Remsen<\/strong>, and more.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"And_in_conclusion%E2%80%A6\"><\/span>And in conclusion\u2026<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><em>Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat<\/em> is a fun little movie that hits some creative genre beats along the way. The action is well-crafted, the production design takes full advantage of the landscape and small town atmosphere, and enough of the humor\/fun lands to keep things moving and entertaining. And not for nothing, but between the vampire in-fighting and synthetic blood, the film also deserves a nod for being what feels like a minor blueprint for 2009\u2019s excellent <em>Daybreakers<\/em>. Totally different films, obviously, but come on\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Want more sublime Prime finds? 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