Michael Ledo Avia (Avia Richards ) is a vampire hunter or just crazy. She meets a cop (Rodney Jackson) who she confides her story of vampires and all he wants to do is play astronaut and have his Tang. Avia has flashbacks and we the audience must decide what is real and what is not.The film starts off with "Omen" style music, and then bounces all over the place, even playing Arabian music as Avia works out with her Samurai sword, or whatever that was. In fact the music got dramatic for things like walking, entering a house, and looking down a pipe with a flashlight. I don't believe the makers of the film quite grasped the idea behind a soundtrack. The acting was bad. The dialogue was uninteresting. The camera work was shaky and frequently cut off the tops of heads. The sound was also choppy.What really made the film unbelievable was that the white cop was better dressed than the black cop. When was the last time the white cop looked sharper in the movie.There is one love scene, or something that implied one. No nudity or swearing. Qualifies for a punch on the hacker card for those that can make it all the way through without using the fast forward or jumping ahead.

TXBear360 Okay... so not as bad as a Jose Prendes movie but darn close. Every time the movie cuts to one of her visions/dreams or delusions the music goes up SO loud you have to turn down the TV to keep from disturbing the neighbors. The fight scenes are ludicrous, the set up to the romantic scene is lame. A love connection made on 5 minutes of conversation and what??? The makeup is bad, the fingers on the monsters in the forest are ROFL funny. Not funny enough to be a comedy and not good enough to be a real vampire movie. The ending???? Hmmmmm.... Don't think about renting this movie.... Run... Now... Run away.... Oh... sorry... need one more line for the review Nazis....

suspiria10 Avia Richards (Allison Valentino) is a restless soul. After her child is murdered and the rest of her family are turned into the undead Avia becomes a katana wielding, butt-kicking vampire slayer that will stop at nothing to rid the world of blood-drinking vermin. But when she becomes romantically involved with a detective working a series of vamp-like slayings will Avia kill the local head vampire or be thrown back into an asylum from whence she came."Avia Vampire Hunter" is a fairly nice looking shot-on-DV production. "Avia" is not original by any stretch of imagination. It screams "Buffy" rip-off all over. The acting, as one would expect is rather bland with little or no believable emotion emitted by the actors. The director did manage to give the film interesting style (for a DV film) and the camera work is pretty good overall. The musical score sometimes reminded me of Danny Elfman and was quite good but it rarely seemed to match the on screen action. The sound design was quite good and the makeup effects were better than you'd normally see in this kind of film. But as you can get with DV the clarity does hinder the believability of the makeup. All-in-all "Avia" is passable fare but quite removed from anything remotely exceptional.

mgarphield I don't know why I rented this movie - It must have been one that got on my recommended list at Netflix. The write up says that where Buffy leaves off this begins so I guess I thought it would be decent. I would not recommend it to anyone unless they are a film student and wanted to see someones project. I did enjoy some of the sound effects and the music but the sound wasn't balanced very well. I ended up fast forwarding through most of it. Even the menu is not professionally done. If you liked Plan 9 From Outer Space you will probably like this - or if you have to see every vampire movie available - otherwise Don't Waste Your Time.