Rish Outfield's reviews
The second film in my Dollar Thirteen presentation had much higher production values than the first, but it was a far cry from a mega-production.
A lady cop and her cop ex-husband go after a mass-murderer who turns out to be a pug-ugly long-hair vampire. When lady cop is bitten, she has to stop the vampire before she becomes one herself. With that description, you'd think this was a good movie, and it could have been, except for the minor detail that it wasn't.
It was slow-moving but didn't get truly boring. The dialogue kept landing just short of clever. The cop scenes were alright, but the horror film scenes never seemed to work. It featured a couple of silly montages that not only slowed the movie down but dropped logic out the window. Yeah, it wasn't very well-done, but it wasn't the worst vampire movie ever (that prize goes to Jugular Wine). This scores high on the ho-hum meter, though. The main actress (Michelle Owens) wasn't so bad, really. Her policewoman character was tough, mean-tempered, and didn't need no man for nothin'. Weird, she single-handedly takes on the undead, yet flinches away from some rats. Besides that, it was very feminist, as if written by daytime talk show hosts.
Midnight Kiss had a sensual title and cover, but was mostly just gritty. It had one of the pet-peeves I have with vampire movies--inconsistency. The vampires have super-human strength in one scene, and in the next, any ole undercover cop can handle one. The creatures kill some victims, and others they just beat up. It also displayed the awfulest ‘flying' effects this side of a high school Peter Pan production, but I digress. The worst thing about the film was its truly annoying villain, a bulldog-looking punk vampire rapist with bad teeth. Was he supposed to be sexy? Scary? Charismatic? Or just ugly and stupid? Well, if they were going with the latter, this was a triumph. And he wore a cross...that was funny.
I'd Recommend It To: Feminist vampire fans who can't fall asleep and four in the morning.
Note: This was the unrated version, but I doubt it helped.

The tyranist's thoughts
I dig on the vampire movies, moreso than any other 'monster' movie. But even I have my limits. The weakness here is not in the fact that they put a bad vampire movie together, but that they didn't seem to understand that a little explanation to the audience might be nice. This one is all action no substance and what it lacks in substance really drags it down.
Additionally, I'm wondering why she felt the need to dress like that after she started to turn? Not that I minded. It's just one more example of something that they could have spent a little time on.
Blending a cop film with a vampire film was really a decent idea in itself, the problems start to arise when you start writing bad dialogue and have a lead character who is pretty unlikeable. Add to that a vampire that I found completely uncharismatic and you just aren't going to get me to endure this one too often. I'm not even sure it's worth seeing as a vampire film. It doesn't add anything new to the mythos and can be summed up as a poor knock off of a hundred other vampire films.