Vampire at Midnight

Year: 1988

Director: Gregory McClatchy

Written by: Dulany Ross Clements

Threat: Vampire

Weapon of Choice: Hypnosis

Based upon: Original

IMDb page: IMDb link

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Rish Outfield's reviews
This is going to sound crazy, but I don't really remember seeing this movie.
Aside from that, this was a murder mystery with a cop pursuing a killer who may or may not be a vampire. Okay, I'll spoil it for you, he isn't. This movie was pretty mediocre. It wasn't good enough to be worth seeing, and it wasn't bad enough to be entertaining. On the other hand, virtually all female characters appear naked. It got pretty boring at times, with seemingly unrelated sequences, sometimes culminating in a murder, sometimes not. The cop was pretty likable. He was a brilliantly original character--a detective that doesn't play by the rules and secretly follows the murder investigation even after he's been taken off the case. He had a piano-playing next door neighbour love interest, but I have no idea why I would tell you that. Bizarrely, there was a Flashdance-style dance sequence midway through. Huh? Later, there was another one, but by then, we knew how it related to the rest of the film. There was a little bit of 80's fun (ie music, hair, clothes, and feel), but hey, Terminator has all that, and none of the negative stuff. When the movie was over, I just scratched my head. Not only did it not manage to entertain, but if the killer wasn't a real vampire, then where did all the blood of his victims go?

Total Skulls: 10

Sequel
Sequel setup
Rips off earlier film
Horror film showing on TV/in theater in movie
Future celebrity appears
Former celebrity appears
Bad title
Bad premise
Bad acting
Bad dialogue
Bad execution
MTV Editing
OTS skullskull
Girl unnecessarily gets naked skull
Wanton sex
Death associated with sex skull
Unfulfilled promise of nudity
Characters forget about threat
Secluded location
Power is cut
Phone lines are cut
Someone investigates a strange noise
Someone runs up stairs instead of going out front door
Camera is the killer
Victims cower in front of a window/door
Victim locks self in with killer
Victim running from killer inexplicably falls
Toilet stall scene
Shower/bath scene skull
Car stalls or won't start
Cat jumps out
Fake scare
Laughable scare
Stupid discovery of corpse
Dream sequence skull
No one believes only witness
Crazy, drunk, old man knows the truth
Music detracts from scene skull
Death in first five minutes skull
x years before/later
Dark and stormy night
Killer doesn't stay dead
Killer wears a mask
Killer is in closet
Killer is in car with victim skull
Villain is more sympathetic than heroes
Unscary villain/monster
Beheading
Blood fountain skull
Blood hits camera
Poor death effect
Excessive gore
No one dies at all
Virgin survives
Geek/Nerd survives
Little kid lamely survives
Dog/Pet miraculously survives
Unresolved subplots
"It was all a dream" ending
Unbelievably happy ending
Unbelievably crappy ending
What the hell?