Wednesday 20 March 2024

TRAVEL TO MOVIES: NIGHT TEETH

Director: Adam Randall
Cast: Jorge Lendeborg Jr. , Debby Ryan , Lucy Fry , Raúl Castillo , Alfie Allen , Marlene Forte , Sydney Sweeney , Alexander Ludwig , Bryan Batt , Hunter Burke , Ash Santos , Jaren Mitchell
Plot: To earn some extra cash, quirky college student Benny (Jorge Lendeborg, Jr.) moonlights as a chauffeur for one night. His task: drive two mysterious young women (Debby Ryan and Lucy Fry) around Los Angeles for a night of party hopping. Taken captive by his clients' charm, he soon learns that his passengers have their own plans for him -- and an insatiable thirst for blood. As his night spins out of control, Benny is thrust into the middle of a clandestine war that pits rival tribes of vampires against the protectors of the human world, led by his brother (Raúl Castillo), who will stop at nothing to send them back into the shadows. With sunrise fast approaching, Benny is forced to choose between fear and temptation if he wants to stay alive and save the City of Angels.


My Movie Review: The movie is a fun bumpy night cool ride Netflix vampire thriller set in Los Angeles, would like to make impression in some halfhearted way, to give few spin to the genre! Night Teeth is exciting with its nighty neon backdrop surely to satisfy the blood sucking viewers whose hunger with this kind of carefree vampire kick in as flick like are hard to come this days:) It starts when Benny, a college student and a freelance chauffeur driving in place of his brother Jay, is hired by friends Blaire and Zoe to drive them to several popular Los Angeles nightclubs!! As the night progress, Benny and Blaire flirt and Blaire reveals that she feels like a misfit who fell under Zoe's spell in the '70s and then was turned by her into a vampire. At the meeting between Jay and Victor, he reveals his plan to take over the city and also that he's killed Maria and is eating her, with a fair amount of violence, blood, and killing amidst all that still fun to see! Towards the ending in the struggle that follows, Zoe stabs Blaire and in retaliation, Benny remotely activates his brother's car, smashing a window and exposing sunlight which kills Zoe! Victor then attacks Benny using Jay as bait, and manages to bite Benny before Jay tackles him into sunlight, killing him so what Blaire did lets Benny suck her blood, and then she sucks his blood completing the ritual needed to turn Benny into a vampire' soon he wakes he'll transform!

Critics Consensus: Night Teeth has a solid cast and some interesting ideas, but they're all lost in a listlessly told, generally predictable vampire story. Nothing to sink your teeth into. If considered purely as a straightforward love letter to the vampire genre, and an expression of affection for the clichés and tropes these movies use over and over, Night Teeth can be a good time. Night Teeth is Collateral with fangs by way of Stephenie Meyer and, surprisingly enough, I don't mean any of that as a negative. Vampires are treated like one of many cliches in this underwhelming horror-action-comedy that has little charisma of its own. [Fry's] increasingly unhinged performance ensures that "Night Teeth" isn't an entirely bloodless flop, but even she stalls out as the film crawls along beyond a 100-minute running time. Nothing special, but it is fun. While this Netflix Halloween entry from director Adam Randall has its campy moments, it's just too long for its own good and would have been sharper if it shed 15 minutes or so. A darkly comic and enjoyable Ulyssean journey through the LA nightscape and playing with genre vampire film tropes, supported by fun performances. Despite limited screen time for Megan Fox and a paint-by-numbers plot, the film really satisfies as a visually stunning vampire thriller:)

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