How sad is this?

Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

In a number of forums I've seen this film mercilessly trashed, and I'm not quite sure why. Perhaps it's having Tsui Hark's name attached to it, thus giving people the wrong idea about the film as they go into it. While I don't think it's the best film ever made by any stretch of the imagination, Vampire Hunters does serve it's purpose. I was entertained thoroughly, startled a few times, laughed a few times, and spent a great deal of my viewing time in suspense. The one thing you can say about this film is that it's definitely not slow moving!While it does suffer from the lack of in depth characterization that seems to be the downfall of many martial arts films, in general I found the acting to be up to par -provided you watch the film subtitled as opposed to dubbed. The wooden voice acting of the English translators is highly reminiscent of the hilarious goofy bad dubbing of 70s martial arts flicks, and really detracts from the genuine scariness of the vampire scenes. And those vampires! Yikes! Spitting acidic gas, sucking your blood through the air, covered in maggots.... Truly makes ol' Bela seem like a puddytat! It's interesting to see the differences between Eastern and Western vampire mythos. The movie itself is beautifully and imaginatively lensed, the director of photography should be proud. The camera-work zooms and jumps during the right moments and steps back and slows down to take in grandeur. The fight scenes are excitingly filmed, and the effects are no worse than any other film I've seen lately. Not the best, but everything moves quickly enough that you don't really notice. All in all, I got what I wanted; escapist, exciting, engaging fun that made me forget about the rest of the world for an hour and a half. And after all, isn't that what a movie is supposed to be? They can't all be caviar, sometimes I really just want popcorn.

A masterful film and beautifully shot i have never seen a film which rocked me to my core it is hard to believe that my life will ever be the same after seeing this awe inspiring film. Its all gravy baby!!!!!!!!!!! BOOYAH!!!

I'm not sure if this was supposed to be a horror drama or a comedy. They did so much editing - poorly - that it's hard to tell what they had in mind. In the version I saw on DVD, it appears there was a lot of stuff cut out which may have explained what the heck was going on. As one viewer said, it's hard to differentiate the heroes from one another as individuals. They also throw in way too much martial arts just for the sake of showing action. If you want to make a martial arts movie, than don't try to be a spooky picture at the same time. The two just don't blend well - at least this time!I thought the oriental take on the vampire theme was interesting and had hopes that there would be some chilling moments, but when even the undead are flying through the air throwing kicks, it's just cheesy. Don't even get me started on the crappy monster designs. Go back to the drawing boards fellas, you've got potential. You've also got a whole other aspect of monsters in Asia that Americans are not familiar with from your own mythology. And I don't mean Godzilla.

This is THE worst movie I have EVER seen! It is SOOOOO bad I felt compelled to write this message: DON'T EVER SEE THIS FILM! IT IS SO DREADFUL YOU FEEL STUPID FOR HAVING WATCHED IT! PLEASE DO NOT SEE THIS FILMSeriously, the most pointless piece of crap I have ever seen, the story didn't make much sense, the effects were D-grade, they were that bad and the fighting has nothing on a B-grade Hong Kong action flick. Absolutely terrible.