Benny, meanwhile, begins to feel the bonding effect of Stockholm Syndrome as he is a prisoner of the two vampires, and lives by their whim. The slow-building romance between Benny and Blaire is conditional. We believe it is contingent on the driver maintaining his cool, and knowing when to lose it. Even Benny is surprised to find himself bashing a vampire hunter over the head with a champagne bottle, becoming a guardian angel on angel dust in a turnaround which blurs his commitment.
When Benny brings the two women home to meet his Abuela, we expect the worst, but get the promised respite from the chase. This gives the film a chance to breathe and establish character backgrounds. Both Benny and Blaire are basically orphans who were readily absorbed into a loving family, with a lot of skeletons in the closet.
Night Teeth has one advantage over some of Netflix’s other young-aiming horror offerings, like the vampire street fight Vampires vs. The Bronx. The players are more mature here, and more can be teased. Why bother producing a vampire piece without erotic danger? The two leads are alluring, though they reserve this for only the most appropriate situations. Also, besides Rocco’s creepy psychic energy readings, the vampires don’t seem to have any gifts besides speed and strength. This is a disappointment, and is obvious in lost opportunities.
Night Teeth doesn’t shy away from gore, but also doesn’t bare its fangs. There are no standout special effects, most of the deaths are fairly downplayed compared with the majority of action horror films. When vampires burn, they implode rather than explode, which makes it less showy, but more effective. The settings, however, are nicely stylized. Director Randall’s Los Angeles is a world of neon nightlife, velvet ropes, and foreboding underground parking lots. It is a visually engaging landscape.
We don’t get enough of the secret ancient world which lies buried under the Boyle Heights neighborhood. As talky as the film is, it could have afforded more history to the setup. It is also a little incongruous that Benny might fall for a woman who wants to kill his step-brother, but this isn’t the kind of masterpiece vampire work that Mike Flanagan supplied Netflix with in Midnight Mass.
The main problem with Night Teeth is the problem of most modern vampire entertainment. There is a cookiecutter formula which must be maintained, and that means the vampires must die. There is a very slight variation on this, which I don’t want to give away, in that we are left with vampires to root for at the end. They aren’t forbidding enough to warrant a sequel, but at least they know enough to pocket the loot the vampire enforcers had been collecting all evening.
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