Paul Andrews Sangre Eterna is set in Chile where three Goth friends M (Juan Pablo Ogalde), Elizabeth (Patricia López) & Martin (Claudio Espinoza) are heavily into a Vampire role-playing game, a bit like Dungeons & Dragons. Meanwhile high school student Carmila (Blance Lewin) has to interview an 'interesting' person for a class project, for some reason she ask's M if he will be her interviewee. M introduces Carmila to the Vampire role-playing game & they, erm, play it. Then, while at a party, M believes that the host Dahmer (Carlos Borquez) is a real life Vampire & is trying to steal his friends away from him...Known to English audiences as Eternal Blood this Chilean production was co-written & directed by Jorge Olguín & one has to say that I thought it was crap & it's as simple & straight forward as that. The script by Olguín & Carolina García is a complete mess, it tries to do something a little bit different but as a near two hour feature film it is incredibly painful to sit through in one go. While watching this it felt like it lasted two days rather than two hours. The character's are awful, the dialogue is awful & I am not sure what the film was trying to do or who it was trying to appeal to. Is this meant to be pro or anti Goth culture? The story is a total mess, there are two horrible, horrible twists in Sangre Eterna which left me both frustrated & annoyed. The twists also have the unwanted consequence of ruining everything that has gone before, the events of Sangre Eterna is either down to a lunar eclipse, Goth Vampire role-playing freaks, drugs, hallucinations, parental neglect or all of the above! You can take your pick because the film never explains itself or gives any real motivation or reason for anything that happens. Then there's the final twist ending in which a supposedly dead person open their eyes which again just contradicts everything, & I mean everything that has gone before including a big twist mere minutes before. This film is a really boring mess that will leave most sane people frustrated, irritated, annoyed & if they are lucky asleep.Director Olguín does nothing special, the film is so tedious, about thirty or forty minutes too long & doesn't make any sense. Seriously if you sit down & think about it, consider all the twists & Sangre Eterna falls apart as it simply doesn't make any sort of sense. As the end credits roll I felt nothing but anger & annoyance as well as being glad that it had finished. Forget about any gore, there's a decent ripped-off head in a fantasy sequence but nothing else & the lack of horror, scares & atmosphere kills the film deader than a stone. It's some sort of horrible cross between a teen Goth soap opera & a horror film. Even the Chilean locations aren't used to any great effect.With a supposed budget of about $25,000 the makers of Sangre Eterna were obviously working on a low budget which accounts for the lack of action, horror, special effects or gore but it's still no excuse for such a poor script & such a bad film. Shot in Spanish Sangre Eterna was dubbed into English, very badly. In fact I haven't seen such a bad dub job on a film since they heyday of the Italian gore film during the late 70's & early 80's which is saying something.Sangre Eterna is a terrible film, if you like watching low budget boring horrible poorly scripted confusing messes then by all means give it a go. If you are looking for an entertaining horror film with some good dramatic incident, a story that makes sense & doesn't bore you to death then avoid Sangre Eterna at all costs.

paulofx This Latin film is really amazing. A group of young people has a singular game on vampires. But they need another member and they look for a girl dressed black, nothing badly for the occasion. But they without knowledge that really is happening, begin to confuse the thin line of the reality. At the outset it can seem a simple film of vampires, but soon this begins to transform itself into very dark nightmare, with good special effects, but with good actors, something very rare for this type of films… I don't tell much about the plot to ruin the surprise. This film does not have million of the American industry, but it has much creativity, well-taken care of line of vision. I did not know that it was a Latin film (from Chile) until seeing an exhibition here in Mexico. Is brilliant to see an original work!

angelnegrofilm Without a doubt the film is of low budget but more than it surprises is its perfect mixture of horror and drama. It is a film of vampires very different from which we are customary to see. The first part is horror, action and Gore. But the second part is a dark and violent drama. It is really a refreshment for the abused genre the vampire. The special effects well are done and the powerful Spanish bands of rock are brilliant. Another great point to its favor is its great description of real the gothic world, not like in other films where everything is false, here the gothic world is very well represented. Its narrative proposal is to lose the notion of the reality or rather what is the real thing? for that reason the resource of the roll games (very similar to the masquarada one) is a success.

baktatank Sangre Eterna (Eternal Blood) is not just a great horror-vampire film. To look at it that way would be not only shallow but unsubstancial. Chilean young Writer/Director not only displays a quantum leap from his first feature film Angel Negro (Black Angel)but also gives a contemporary look to the everlasting theme of vampires. The plot is basically the story of M (Juan Pablo Ogalde) and friends who devote their time mostly playing a role game of vampires called Sangre Eterna, then Carmilla (Blanca Levin)comes into M's world not only as a lover but as a new player of the game too.As time goes by they encounter a dark and mysterious owner of a semi-demolished goth house who invites them to assist their parties and gatherings. Soon M finds out that these people are not only goth freaks like them but somthing more terriffing and ancient and that vampires not only exist in their role game but in real life too. Jorge Olguin brings new airs to the chilean cinema scene with a 'pure blood' genre movie which was never done before, adding to the mix state-of-the-art special fx and prosthetics (also never done before in these latitudes)with great performances (specially the one that displays J.P. Ogalde as M)and sound design (made by Chilefilms with 3d dolby surround systems)...as a result you get a real good-blood shedding modern vampire tale, that revists the theme in a unique way with low budget and high visuals. A MUST-SEE for gore/vampire lovers, although it is not a film that is among the masters Dario Argento or the late-gone-million dollar budget, Sam Raimi.Karel Jorge Bosaans.