For years METAMORPHOSIS intrigued me. Not just because I am a fan of Christopher Lambert but also because of the low score of 3,6 and the scary poster. So last June I finally saw it and I ended up merely liking it (and as a vampire movie it's better than the TWILIGHTs).
In the beginning we see a prologue explaining us that during the Seventeeth Century while Hungary was fighting the Turks the population of a small village in the Carpatian mountains had to face the evil countess Elizabeth Batory accused of drinking blood of virgin women. Costantine Thurzo (Lambert) imprisons the countess in the monastery's tower and brings her daughter with him. Fast forward to the present (when this was filmed in 2006): Keith has to write a book about Elizabeth Batory and came with his friends JJ and Kim for some research. After a car accident they don't have any other choice than stay in the castle and have a supernatural journey with various revelations and deaths.
The plot is a bit dull in the first part and the special effects ok for 2007. But what saved the movie and prevented me to give it a bad score was Christopher Lambert's incredibly zany performance... over the top but not that annoying. Every time he appeared he said lines with that weird accent of his that they made me laugh a lot and it made the movie worth sitting through just for this epic moment of 10 minutes give or take.
If you stumble upon it, don't miss it just for Lambert's performance because it's over the top but not on Nicolas Cage or Jim Carrey levels.
In the beginning we see a prologue explaining us that during the Seventeeth Century while Hungary was fighting the Turks the population of a small village in the Carpatian mountains had to face the evil countess Elizabeth Batory accused of drinking blood of virgin women. Costantine Thurzo (Lambert) imprisons the countess in the monastery's tower and brings her daughter with him. Fast forward to the present (when this was filmed in 2006): Keith has to write a book about Elizabeth Batory and came with his friends JJ and Kim for some research. After a car accident they don't have any other choice than stay in the castle and have a supernatural journey with various revelations and deaths.
The plot is a bit dull in the first part and the special effects ok for 2007. But what saved the movie and prevented me to give it a bad score was Christopher Lambert's incredibly zany performance... over the top but not that annoying. Every time he appeared he said lines with that weird accent of his that they made me laugh a lot and it made the movie worth sitting through just for this epic moment of 10 minutes give or take.
If you stumble upon it, don't miss it just for Lambert's performance because it's over the top but not on Nicolas Cage or Jim Carrey levels.