I first saw bits n pieces of this movie in the early 2k on cable tv n kinda disliked it.

Revisited it recently.

This is the sequel to the John Carpenter's Vampires.

This one is not at all action packed or brutal like its predecessor.

There is a lol scene where the character of Bon Jov blows up the head of a vampire and that too when the entire body was already in the process of being pulled out for death via sun.

What was the need for it i dont understand.

The lead female vampire is hot but we only get to see her tits via her thin dress.

All in all a lousy sequel.

I'll admit that Bon Jovi isn't my first choice when I think of "actors" to play vampire hunters but somehow his presence in this film works. Essentially, VAMPIRES: LOS MUERTOS is a retelling of John Carpenter's 1997 film VAMPIRES, featuring a vampire killer who gets together a team of fighters to go up against the undead menace. As the title would suggest, this sequel travels south of the border to engage in some Day of the Dead shenanigans and vampire action slightly influenced by the likes of FROM DUSK TILL DAWN.

I'll admit that I'm not a fan of Carpenter's original film, whose '90s-era excesses have dated very badly. This one's a definite step up from that, although it's still no great shakes. The story is so simple a child could have written it, just going back and forth between humans killing vampires and vampires killing humans. There's absolutely no depth, and not even any twists to enliven things.

On the plus side, the characters are drawn a little better than usual, and there are opportunities for the supporting cast members to get a look in (including a youthful Diego Luna, later to turn heartthrob in DIRTY DANCING: HAVANA NIGHTS). Bon Jovi, as ageless as ever, betrays his lack of training as an actor but isn't required to do much other than look cool and determined.

The vampires are a clichéd menace and the chief villain is pitiful. At least there's some gore to keep horror fans happy. More interestingly, the director has been well chosen: Tommy Lee Wallace, who once made HALLOWEEN III: SEASON OF THE WITCH and IT, has a long association with the genre and gives this film a certain style it would otherwise have lacked.

Derek Bliss (Jon Bon Jovi) is a vampire slayer chasing a beautiful vampire woman, who wants to have the power of walking during the day. This is another modern movie having the theme of Vampires. But like most of the recent ones, it does not have the charm of those original films. The vampires in this movie shall be decapitated and are destroyed by the sunlight only, sleep in churches, are not affected by cross (but are affected by bullets),move fast like "The Flash"... That is OK as an action movie, but does not have the charm of the original vampire movies, for example those from Hammer with Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. I liked it as an action movie, but regarding vampire movies, better off the Hammer`s ones. My vote is six.