Rampaging Zompires

Just finished watching this and I'm still trying to figure out what on earth I just saw.

Lemme see if I've got this straight. They have a need for blood (vampires) but they can only be killed by destroying the brain (zombies). They use weapons (neither) and they feel pain (huh?). They don't eat flesh (not zombies) and instead go straight for the heart in most cases instead of the jugular (not vampires). They look like rotisserie chickens and they all seem to be rather well-dressed (businessmen who were in bad car wrecks?).

At one point, at the church, Anna even asks Dean if he remembers the medieval legends. Then she says, "If they're really vampires, they can't enter the house of the Lord" or something like that. Suggests to me the filmmakers were leaning more towards vampires, like I Am Legend, which is another one that gets lumped in with zombies thanks to that awful Will Smith car wreck (I still want my money back--I much prefer the original adaptation with Vincent Price, where it was pretty obvious the creatures were more like vampires what with the wooden stakes and the garlic).

As a zombie movie, I hated it. As a vampire movie, I hated it--not a fan of vampires anyway; super-boring to me. As something else altogether, I can appreciate it. But I refuse to add it to the list of zombie movies I've seen because I don't consider the baddies in this movie to fall under any definition of the word; not the classic Haitian-type zombie and not the modern Romero-type zombie; not even the more modern fast-moving zombie. I'd sooner accept 28 Days Later as a zombie movie than this.

This movie belongs in its own category, IMO.