paulbatterson
What a Excellent film!! Nice to have a film that doesn't involve 'one man saving the world' as is the norm with most of the films coming out recently, the makers have pulled of a gem here and how good is that!! Something different, the music,characters,are all Brilliant. And how Gorgeous is Tatiana,(Charlotte Ayanna) who looks to be either Polish or Romaninan but is from Puerto-Rico dob:25-9-1976 She is Beautiful with a Hint of Malice! Enjoy the movie for what is is,a Great piece of Entertainment which deserves more recognition than what is has had you could watch it over and over again and never get sick of it it has to be watched twice to see what you miss and the end credits need to be watched right through!
slayrrr666
"The Insatiable" is a rather fine and acceptable vampire film with a few flaws.**SPOILERS**Coming home from work, Harry Balbo, (Sean Patrick Flanery) witnesses a brutal crime going on, but no one will believe his story about a female vampire doing the killing. Becoming obsessed with solving the mystery, he learns how to deal with vampires from master slayer Strickland, (Michael Biehn) and is sent off into battle against Tatiana, (Charlotte Ayanna) the vampire they believe responsible. Finding her, he can't compel himself to kill her and he decides to bring her back to his house and traps her in a steel cage in his basement, keeping her alive by feeding and caring for her. As the relationship grows stronger, it soon draws others into the web who can ruin it for him, forcing him into a position he didn't want to be in.The Good News: This wasn't all that bad of a vampire film. The fact that the few vampire action seen in here is so good is something to be commended. The opening segments, where she's on the loose in the city, is really fun and actually good. The attack in the alleyway is great, using the darkness to hide the majority of it and having a flashlight to show the good parts, and that leads to the leaping exit as a fun visual. The apartment attack is just as good, for the nudity and the pot-breaking sequence contribute greatly to the good times ahead. The foot chase at the end of it is actually a little tense, mainly once it gets to the apartment building and the trap is sprung. The scenes in between, talking about the different ways of dealing with the a vampire in the modern times as well as the clever way of doing this, all of which is rather fun and original. The main story here is also nice, being new and unique while also having something different about the genre, which is always a plus. The last big plus is the really bloody and messy kills, what few there are in the film. Because of the structure here, there's not a whole lot of opportunities but the ones who are here aren't bad. There's a couple of bitten necks, a nice decapitation, an arm ripped completely off, a stabbing in the chest and one is feasted upon, which are all nice to see in these kinds of films. These here are the film's good points.The Bad News: There was a couple of flaws in this one. The main issue is that the film suffers from a considerable lack of vampire action. The whole second-half of the film is done in such a manner as to make the action almost non-existent, really reducing the film's enjoyment factor considerably. By basically showing just the vampire hanging around the basement doing nothing except for tempting the lead, which has really little excitement value at all. The endless scenes in the basement serve very little function because it's obvious that the attraction is there but nothing is done with it. They merely reinforce everything that is already known, and the dialog establishes little new points, making them feel quite dull and lifeless. These, as well as the scenes in the workplace constitute the film's second-half, to the point of near-exclusion of anything else, and it's a marked difference over what has happened in the beginning, throwing off a real sense of disappointment when compared to the first half. Even though there's very little which actually happened, it's still not all that spectacular. The last flaw is that there's very little in the way of actual vampire motifs at all. Beyond the neck-biting and sleeping during the day, it's quite hard to believe this is a vampire film at all. There's a discrepancy between the strength, as one scene shows her ripping a door off yet another shows it having a hard time bending steel bars. It could've used a little more to actually stay connected with the vampire mythology. These here are the film's few faults.The Final Verdict: With a couple of nice moments and a couple worthwhile flaws that pull it down a bit but is still watchable. Give this a shot if you're into the genre or are in the mood for something different within the style, while those looking for more complete genre-experience should seek elsewhere.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language, Nudity, a mild sex scene and violence against animals
TdSmth5
The vampire genre has got the be most abused genre in movie making. Movie makers just have no clue about what to do with it. When was the last time anyone made a great vampire flick? The latest catastrophe is The Insatiable. Marketed as some erotic horror movie it turns out to be a dull comedic romance, which is neither funny nor romantic. There is a lot of the awful Tarantino-esquire self-conscious direction and (mis)use of music to make things lighthearted. The story centers around a depressed loner loser (bad idea #1) who witnesses a vampire crime. Seen as a crazy guy or perpetrator by the police he takes matters into his own hands going online in search of help. He finds a reluctant vampire hunter with whom he chats online for long times (bad idea #2, people typing on keyboards is never interesting in a movie). He sets out to kill the vampire but being unable to do so chooses to take her captive in a cage in his basement. So most of the action/ interaction will take place between the main characters talking in a basement (bad idea #3). This is a looong, boring, Z-budget movie but with good production values. It's "not rated" but if it were, it's rating would be PG-13. Don't expect a gore fest or lots of sex and nudity- that's just the marketing trick applied to the title. We are told the vampire is insatiable but we have to take the character's words for it because we see no evidence of it. There's one two-second sex-in-clothes scene. Only in American movies do people have sex while clothed. Pretty soon you notice that the story isn't going to go anywhere. The male lead is sympathetic and likable but overacted as is one of his coworkers who plays the funny jerk non-stop. What keeps this movie from being a complete narcotic is the vampire who is a beautiful girl. There's also an attractive neighbor. Pretty but underused girls. The script shows some signs of intelligence here and there. The ending is "good" but given that the rest of the movie is so bad and one has absolutely no hopes or expectations that things will improve, any ending where something, anything happens, would have been good. We are told this thing was filmed in Austin although the only evidence that it wasn't filmed in California is that the girls have gorgeous hair, unlike the lifeless hair of lazy California girls. I was thinking it was filmed in Canada since it's so good natured and dull. Why it takes two directors to film this is a mystery. Half a director could have done it on a weekend. The credits mention a 'behind the scenes' director. Funny, there are no Behind the Scenes in the Special Feautures. In fact there are no extras on this DVD. A shame, any additional screen time of the girls would could have helped. Stay away from this mess.
Vampirebear13
This movie is like a much better remake of Dance of The Damned. Idiots who don't like this movie,know absolutely nothing about vampire legend,lore,background or movies. Vampires are all about being sexy+lustful. Vampire movies are not about some "bad guy" running around killing people. If you want those kinda flicks,stick to Freddy+Jason. This film was very well done and really it's worst flaw is (like a lot of big studio films) poor casting. Sean Patrick Flannery is a capable actor but completely wrong for this flick. His part should have gone to someone like Jon Cryer,but,Sean's career isn't flourishing like Jon's. If want to see what's basically the original of this film,find Dance of The Damned. (It's a vampire love story anyway) It was later remade into To Sleep With a Vampire with Alyssa Milano+Scott Valentine... now that was a complete waste of film.