Night Watch

So, having reminded myself what good movies feel like in the wake of Daybreakers, I'm going to try and balance the junk with better stuff, like the Russian horror thriller Night Watch, based on a series of novels by Sergei Lukyanenko.

In Moscow, the forces of Good, represented by the Night Watch, are in conflict with the forces of Evil, the Day Watch. The Day Watch is made up of evil wizards and vampires, while good wizards and shape shifters run the Night Watch.

The vampires are pretty sympathetic as far as bloodsucking creatures of the night are concerned, Kostya foremost among them. He's the son of a butcher, also a vampire- which is where he gets his blood from, lest they run afoul with the Night Watch.

Kostya's neighbor Anton is with the Day Watch and is tasked with bringing in a vampire couple who have decided they want to feed on a child.

Of course, the vampires are just cogs in a bigger picture- The End of the World, of course.

One nice touch is the child is watching Buffy The Vampire Slayer, in Russian, of course, specifically the episode where she meets Dracula.

Night Watch is pretty cool- awesome effects, nothing exactly new, but presented in a novel fashion. I'm looking forward to the sequel, Day Watch.