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I noticed that To Die For and To Die For 2 were on sale at my local video store. So I came home and researched them and found some reviewers comparing the original to classics like Near Dark and Fright Night. Based on that shining recommendation I decided to pick them both up. If they suck, I'm out four dollars. Well, it looks like I'm out four dollars. I can't speak for its sequel yet, but To Die For is bad. It plays out like a cheesy soap opera. Very cheesy. It even has that soap opera look (just watch the opening "party" scene). I hate that. To Die For is another film in which Dracula has moved to modern day America and finds his long lost love. Snooze. Seen it a thousand times, and a thousand times better. The cast is terrible too, and I even like a few of them in other projects. Amanda Wyss from Nightmare on Elm Street is particularly bad and Brendan Hughes, who I liked in The Howling VI , is pretty flat as well. Why Duane Jones (he of Night of the Living Dead fame) even has a cameo in this film is beyond me. John Carl Buechler's effects ,while decent, are very out of place in this boring romance. I would suggest never watching this.
I noticed that To Die For and To Die For 2 were on sale at my local video store. So I came home and researched them and found some reviewers comparing the original to classics like Near Dark and Fright Night. Based on that shining recommendation I decided to pick them both up. If they suck, I'm out four dollars. Well, it looks like I'm out four dollars. I can't speak for its sequel yet, but To Die For is bad. It plays out like a cheesy soap opera. Very cheesy. It even has that soap opera look (just watch the opening "party" scene). I hate that. To Die For is another film in which Dracula has moved to modern day America and finds his long lost love. Snooze. Seen it a thousand times, and a thousand times better. The cast is terrible too, and I even like a few of them in other projects. Amanda Wyss from Nightmare on Elm Street is particularly bad and Brendan Hughes, who I liked in The Howling VI , is pretty flat as well. Why Duane Jones (he of Night of the Living Dead fame) even has a cameo in this film is beyond me. John Carl Buechler's effects ,while decent, are very out of place in this boring romance. I would suggest never watching this.