At the part where they drive into the city looking for a strip club there's a part where the car spins out of control and when they stop it looks like they're in a completely different part of town. What's the deal here? I love the movie, but that one part to me seemed really strange and surreal.
sharethats the whole point the transition frim normality to vamp world
share"Vamp" borrowed heavily from earlier films, but in a very subtle and minor and original way (compared to, say, um, "Dusk Til Dawn", ehum) using the lighting techniques of Italian horror maestros Bava and Argento, the "new wave" club scene of Tony Scott's "The Hunger", etc.
Among other "references" to past cinema, the scene where the car spins, and spins and spins out of control is rather obviously a reference to the twister in "The Wizard Of Oz" that transports Dorothy to Oz, a fact which is not-so-subtely underlined by the line "I don't think we're in Kansas anymore."
In other words, the previous post that said it's a transition from normal to para-normal (though not in those words) is correct, but not specific enough.
Hope you get this reply as its been a while since you posted.
P.S. "Vamp" is well into my top 10 favorite Vampire films of ALL time, and really really close to being in my top 10 fav FILMS of all time. There's just something about the combination of cinematography, film score, script, acting, and that all-around 80's new wave atmosphere that is at once locked-in-time to the 80's, and yet timeless as a vampire flick.
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i must admit i love the way its filmed, using the green and pink lighting. theres something so surreal about it, yet so real.
sharesaturdayniteboi, I agree. Whenever I think of this movie the colors and the lighting are one of the first things that come to mind.
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