Tubi Friday: Son of Darkness- To Die For 2

 It wouldn't have been fair to watch and review a 2nd Movie after Spider-Man: Brand New Day.

As such, let's do one today.
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To Die For is a Film that I watched so long ago that I made Channel Awesome references in it.

Regardless, all you need to know is that this woman is raising a baby that no Doctor can seem to treat.

That is, until she meets Dr. Shreck, who she falls for as well.

Well, he's a Vampire.

As one says later, Vampires 'travel in flocks.'

As such, there's a Vampire there with him- Amanda Wyss- who feels rejected by him.

That works out well for...

...his Brother, who also managed to survive the last Film.

He's followed Shreck (aka Vlad) to this small Mountain town, but he's not sure why the guy is hiding out there.

As it turns out, the baby is Vlad's.

The Mother was spared and had a hybrid baby, long before the Twilight Films.

He's trying to get access to it and turn the baby.

His Brother is not on board.

The Film has about 3 other Subplots intersecting here.

The new Mom's Brother- the guy from The Last Starfighter- is eventually seduced and turned by Wyss.

There's also another Vampire lady, who doesn't want to get involved in any conflict.

Lastly, the Hero from the last Film has come to Town after reading about Vampire killings.

The guy meets with the Vampire lady, but it turns bad when the Brother finds out and leaves her to die!

It all comes down to a very busy climax involving all of the players.

The Brother tries to save his Sister and gets Ashed (aka his head cut off with a chainsaw) by the Brother.
Wyss stakes him, but he wounds her to death as well.

Vlad is about to turn the Mom (and then kid) when the Hero stakes him and he dies dramatically.

The Mom leaves and they tease that the kid is a Vampire.
I mean...yeah, we knew that.  That was the whole Plot of this, right?

The End.

A decent to good attempt at making lots of Stories intersect.

Did the Film need this much going on?
They probably could have cut some of it- like the neutral Vampire Lady- and spent more time on other things.

Regardless, they do many things right here.

The Brother is a real delight, playing a hammy but also scary villain throughout.  The Scene where he's stalking the lady in the Boatyard stands out.

Wyss does good with what she's given as well, getting a little Arc for her Character.

The Vampire effects are mostly subtle here.  That's fine, honestly.  This way they didn't do more than they could do.

The only real problem here is that with so much going on, the Film can be a bit unfocused and thus less interesting.

Now I do have to wonder why Vlad thought appearing to her in her dreams would somehow not disturb her...

A Film with a few high points and many good Actors.  Unfortunately, there's too many Players and it drags a bit at times.