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Strigoi
directed by Faye Jackson
TL;DR: A wonderful dark comedy involving Eastern European politics, small town isolation, and vampires. A must-see for lovers of indie-horror looking for something truly different.

( I'm not even sure how to describe this film )

Disclaimer: I love the Nightmare movies. I loved the scares of the original, the campiness of the sequels, the 4th-wall-breaking genre-deconstructing eighth film that no one seems to have seen (but everyone really should see). I think Freddy Krueger, with his demonic laugh and sadistic kills, is one of the best movie villains ever. So when the Nightmare re-make got critic-slashed to bits faster than a co-ed being chased by a possessed Slap Chop, I was expecting a campy hackneyed mess of film that had more in common with Saw, Hostel, and Rob Zombie's lamentable forays into slasher films than the original Nightmare.

I was pleasantly surprised.

( Critics hate teenagers )