Blood: The Last Vampire

Really goofy Hong Kong, Japanese, French and Argentinean co-production featuring a vampire Samurai, played by a Korean, who protects an American girl in Tokyo from marauding demons. It’s in English, but the actors who play the Americans are all from Australia or something and they all sound weird. There are excellent and surreal sword fighting massacres set in a hyper-real dream world. Thick purple blood sprays liberally across the hilariously gruesome kabuki canvass. The hero is, of course, uniformed as one of those fetishy Japanese school girls, and the creep in me hopes she and the American girl are eventually going to get it on. But this gory vampire samurai movie is too classy for that. Should you be in the mood to get out of the multiplex and see a foreign film, and you want to broaden your horizons (i.e. turn off your brain), you won’t be bored.