Not a direct sequel to the John Carpenter film, but taking place in the same universe. The sequel follows another Vatican sanctioned vampire hunter, Jon Bon Jovi, as he goes after a dangerous group of vampires in Mexico. Carpenter did not write or direct this film, but is on-board as producer. This film was instead written and directed by longtime Carpenter collaborator Tommy Lee Wallace (he even played Michael Meyers in the first film), who delivers a solid enough of direct-to-video entertainment. I did like how this sequel changed the setting a bit and made it even more so of a western than the first film, but this film does suffer by comparison to the excellent original film.

(In this comment I try to focus on the movie as a work. When you judge my comments please sent me a message to tell me what and why as I can then work to improve the comments)I recently bought the DVD with comments from director Tommy Lee Wallace, which gives me some idea of the directors choices. I like explore if the directors ideas worked as well as he hoped it would.The movie tells of Derek Bliss who earns a living as a vampire exterminator. He gets a assignment to help a Mexican village get rid of a vampire infestation. He tries to assemble a crew, but soon finds that each veteran vampire hunter he tries to recruit is either dead or otherwise unavailable. Finally he gathers a group of unfit who nevertheless help him defeat the main villain: a female vampire named Una.Wallace tell us he wanted a movie that was at the same time a sequel and one that could stand on its own. Wallace also remarks how he likes cowboy movies like the magnificent seven in which a group of gunslingers are hired to get rid of a band of scumbags. In addition he wanted to have both a scary movie with funny moments. For a low budget vampire movie this is quite a lot to strive for.The main problem of the movie is that it a lot of it's consistency has been lost in the editing room. Una at one moment kills a handful customers in a diner in the space of time that the main hero needs to throw a bit of paper in a waste basket. This, so tells Wallace, is to show us how incredible fast she is. Most of the associated scenes have been removed. At an important moment Una discovers that one of the vampire hunters(Zoey) has a medicine that prevents her from turning into a vampire herself. Yet story wise there is no reason how the vampire can make this link, but Una somehow knows and then tries to acquire the medicine for herself. How did Una know? Because of her incredible listening powers. But since the associated scenes had been removed the entire part is illogical. But consistency is lost in other ways too. In itself however Una's superhuman power creates a problem on it's own. Someone who can move as fast as her would kill the heroes in no time, even if they are armed with guns. So in the end battle Wallace made her less powerful but also create the problem that he has to shoot movie with a low budget and speed tricks work nice when the actor is on her own, but would create problems in a big battle. Another problem is that Mexico has a lot of daylight and a lot of sun. A subplot in the story is the attempt by Una to become immune from the sun by conducting a old ritual. The vampires that are caught by the heroes and dragged into the sun burn to death instantly, yet all the places in which vampires lurk, are all lightened by the sun. The vampires seem to be hardly affected by this light. In the same vein during the movie Ray, one of the vampire hunters, gets turned by Una He however hides his condition from the others. We see him subsequently move about in broad daylight without any ill side effects before he is finally found out by Bliss. In addition at some point in the movie there moments of bloody gory violence. For example: a bartender who get's his head ripped off and then is turned upside down so the vampires can drink his blood. This scene by the way has also been heavily cut to the point that it seems to be pointless. Violence that leaves a lot of dead body alerts the authorities and triggers their involvement. If we take a look at the story and the conversations in the movie then both are hardly great stuff. The entire story seems to be developed during the shooting of the movie. What do we do next? Well maybe have a car explode. OK we can do that. It seems to me that Wallace overreached himself. Where he states during the comments that less is more he does it the other way around. He tries to do more, but ends up with less. There is a big clue at the end as he frankly confesses that he lacked the money for a big end battle. The movie has some strong things going for it: the beautiful landscapes of the Mexican country side; the plot development in which Zoey has a medicine that prevents her from becoming a vampire: if she loses the medicine she will turn into a predator; finally the music score made by Brian Tyler. For some reason I had to think of Reservoir Dogs: a low budget movie that works. Less is more and Wallace should have taken that lesson at heart. I think that the movie would have had a better change if the entire part of traveling towards the Mexican village had been replaced by the more horror like thing of a group of reluctant heroes who find themselves trapped in a Mexican village and try to escape to safety but then are compelled to face the horror that is stalking them. The interaction between the group has a lot more potential. The Mexican country might still have been used as a backdrop for the story. The medicine ploy might then be used in such a way that brings dynamic in the group and is should have been the sole MacGuffin. Simplicity is the key

The last reviewer was very generous. I quiet like the first movie, but can't say I enjoy this one very much. The beginning is bearable, but it goes downhill pretty quickly. I just don't see Jon Bon Jovi as a "bad-ass vampire hunter" and the vampire princess is neither sexy nor scary. A lot of the scenes just do not make sense. I mean any normal person would suspect something is up when a strange woman suddenly appearing out of nowhere to seduce you, let alone an experienced hunter. Why Una is able to communicate with Jovi? Nothing was ever explain in this movie, you wouldn't mind if it was entertaining, but that was too much to ask. This has to be one of worst vampire movie I have seen.

Ugh, what can I say other than, ugh. I rented this film because it was labeled as a sequel to the original Vampires. This movie could not have been any lamer. Lacking not only in plot, but the acting is atrocious. Combined with some obvious plot holes makes this movie a very hard one to watch. Many times I questioned my own sanity at continuing to watch the film long after the plot had jumped the shark. Here's a sampling of the lamer aspects...***SPOILERS***Professional "Slayer" insists on sleeping outdoors by himself at night. He wakes up to a woman crying, sitting no more than 3 feet from him in the middle of nowhere. He immediately goes to comfort her without questioning her sudden appearance. She goes from crying to seducing him, and he lets it happen with obvious results...One of the main characters is Zoe, was bitten by a Vampire, but as long as she takes these "experimental pills" she got in Mexico City, she's fine, although her body temperature is below room temperature...Guard outside of monastery where hero is staying the night is killed by vampires, hero leaves the next day. He then returns a day later only to be surprised that the vampires attacked the monastery the night after he left......avoid this movie.