{"id":12299,"date":"2011-02-04T10:38:14","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T18:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=12299"},"modified":"2011-02-04T12:27:43","modified_gmt":"2011-02-04T20:27:43","slug":"stake-land-jim-mickle-2010-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=12299","title":{"rendered":"Stake Land (Jim Mickle 2010): USA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by\u00a0Sanni Frostenson<\/a> at the Santa Barbara Film Festival 2011.<\/p>\n

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Want to see a witty, only somewhat scary mixture between a classical zombie movie, and a modern \u00a0form of a vampire movie? Then go and see\u00a0Stake Land<\/em><\/a>. \u00a0I think anyone who liked Zombieland will enjoy this film. Sure it is not as fun, but compensate in other ways.<\/p>\n

Martin is a young boy who would be all alone in the world. If it wasn’t for a a very talented man called Mister. So what is Misters talent, well slaughter vampires has made him very well known. And he has managed to keep himself and Martin alive in a time where most people can’t.<\/p>\n

There is vampires also called blood suckers all over. They does not look like we are used to see them in movies. As in the picture above they resembles zombies more than anything. But they do have the typical features like pointy vampire teeth, and eyes glistening from night vision. These mutate vampires are sensitive to sunlight, and dies only from a stake run through their heart. But they don’t seem to take any harm from crosses, or have any kind of intelligence and charm as we are used to see them.<\/p>\n

Mister are trying to take Martin with him to New Eden. A place in Canada where there\u00a0supposedly are no bloodsuckers. But on the way other dangers are awaiting the two.\u00a0\u00a0One of them is a crazy\u00a0Christian\u00a0cult who\u00a0believes\u00a0that the vampires are a blessing from God. They also run into a nun, a young girl who is singing at bars, and an ex U.S solider on their path there. And they bring these people with them on their exciting journey.<\/p>\n

As mention before Stake Land resembles much of Zombieland in structure and plot. But it still has unexpected parts. I also saw a lot of\u00a0resemblance to certain Zombie movies like 28 Days and such. These kind of films are all about making a journey for the sake of\u00a0survival. At last this film also have slight things in common with The Last Exorcist, and other movies where a cult is in focus. The one in this movie made me think about Ku\u00a0Klux\u00a0Klan or any other band of organized madness.<\/p>\n

I really enjoyed watching this very mixed movie. And horror is totally my genre, even though I would not exactly call this a typical horror movie. At least I didn’t jump more than once, but maybe I’m harden by all horror movies in the past. But a little notification that Stake Land has some blood, death and other possibly\u00a0gross part\u00a0in it.<\/p>\n

I like this kind of movies, because they triggers my lust to try out my survival instinct for real.\u00a0 Only the most\u00a0equipped\u00a0would survive. In any case I found this movie very interesting, and if you already like any of the movies mentioned above you should see this one. Or if you are just fascinated about the dark side of man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by\u00a0Sanni Frostenson at the Santa Barbara Film Festival 2011. Want to see a witty, only somewhat scary mixture between a classical zombie movie, and a modern \u00a0form of a vampire movie? Then go and see\u00a0Stake Land. \u00a0I think anyone who liked Zombieland will enjoy this film. Sure it is not as fun, but compensate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1236,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,146],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films","category-santa-barbara-film-festival-2011"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1236"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}