[5] Waxworks, also by Hickox, was an
uneven film about, surprisingly, a wax museum; one of the segments was a
vampire story, well up in the running for the bloodiest scene EVER. He's
expanded up to an entire film about blood suckers, yet the amount of red
stuff here is minimal - in this modern age, vampires have started creating
artificial blood (and also using UV cream to let them go out in the
day!). This causes friction with traditionalists who believe in hunting
their prey; civil war looms. Into this comes Carradine, as the
inventor of the artificial blood, his family, and Campbell as Van Helsing, out to
continue his ancestor's work. Cue a long stream of mostly obvious jokes
about garlic, as Carradine fails to believe his family's tales until just
before the final battle. 'You've been watching too many horror films", he
says, a sentiment that brought a ripple of agreement from the, by now, very
tired audience! Enjoyable rubbish is the best way to describe this one; the
odd new idea and humorous situation keeps it all ticking over and
Campbell is excellent. If at the end you feel as if you'd eaten a stick of
candy-floss, it's stlll a pleasant way to spend ninety minutes.
