RELEASED IN 2010 and directed by Vitaliy Versace, "The Last Vampire on Earth" chronicles events in northeast Ohio when a nice religious girl (McKenzie Grimmet) meets a mysterious-but-nice guy (Michael Bole) at college and falls in love. Problems arise when she and her family discover that he's a 2000 year-old vampire (!). Even worse, she's diagnosed with a fatal disease.This is an extremely low-budget flick with wooden non-acting, stilted dialogue, bad lighting, questionable sound, basic camera angles and so forth. On top of this, the writer confuses traditional protestant doctrine & practices with that of the Jehovah's False Witnesses. For instance, there are references to "going to church" and the "pastor" when, in fact, JWs don't use this terminology. Their meeting facilities are called "Kingdom Halls" (which, to be fair, is referenced once in the movie) and their leaders are referred to as elders. The "Kingdom Hall" building depicted in the movie is a traditional church facility. Obvious flaws like this reflect bad (or non-existent) research.The second thing you need to understand is that this is not a horror story. It's a youth drama or love story involving a winsome girl and a good vampire. If you can overlook the low-level of production and adapt to the movie's limitations, the story's generally engaging with a couple of boring parts.The director was born in Russia and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. This was only his second movie, but he kept at his chosen craft and has gone on to bigger and better things in filmmaking. I love to see people make-do with what they got to create and improve as they persevere in faith. Do not despise humble beginnings.THE FILM RUNS 90 minutes and was shot in Youngstown & Boardman, Ohio. WRITER: Mandie L Abraham wrote the screenplay based on her self-published novel.GRADE: D

This film is hands down one of the best adaptations of a novel for the big screen ever made, right there with The Lord of the Rings and Fifty shades of Grey. Versace proves to be one of the greatest cinematographers of our generation with his unique visual style, camera movements, framing and photography. The lead actors are extremely charismatic and fun to see. The script does a good job in creating good dialogues and set pieces and being faithful to the source material. This is a must see film.

I think the director may have gone too far in a few places- however, it was stylistically designed to be that way, and what he did was to diminish the effects of it. This film couldn't have worked without Chloe- she's the key to all this, because she's a funnier character than what we've seen. It's so dense, every single image has so many things going on... And again, it's like poetry, it's sort of, they rhyme. Every stanza kind of rhymes with the last one. Hopefully it'll work. ***SPOILERS*** I think my favorite part was when Chuck and Ralph had to crash the plane into the reservoir in order to destroy the tainted Pizza Rolls infected with "the Spector's essence ", but I found it refreshing that instead of the typical boy meets girl sub plot, they went the route of adding a mathematical thriller element to offset the overall commentary of white appropriation of African influence in classical music. It's like the Craft meets Three Days of the Condor!!! Highly recommend- and remember... "all is quiet in the night!"

This is a horrible movie, the only reason I saw this movie was because it was on a $5 DVD with 8 horror movies on it. The film is about a female student named Chloe befriending a vampire named Aurelius. The pace of the film is very slow,there isn't much of a story or plot to the film at all. The first half of the movie is Chloe and Aurelius just casually talking back and forth like a couple of shy teenagers getting to know each other. Their conversations seem pointless and boring, it makes the hour and twenty minute movie seem like it will never end. We don't find out Aurelius is a vampire until the second half of the movie, then their pointless conversation turn to even more boring ones about him being a vampire. The only stereotypical vampire traits Aurelius follows is that he drinks blood, which he buys from a traveling blood bank. He doesn't bite or kill anyone and he walks around during the daylight like everyone else. There is no story and no plot to this film at all unless you like watching two teens have unmindful conversations about nothing I wouldn't waste your time watching this.