SYNOPSICS
Nattens engel (1998) is a English,Spanish,Danish movie. Shaky González has directed this movie. Maria Stokholm,Mette Louise Holland,Tomas Villum Jensen,Svend Johansen are the starring of this movie. It was released in 1998. Nattens engel (1998) is considered one of the best Horror movie in India and around the world.
Rebecca has inherited her grandmother's Gothic mansion and brings both her best friend an her boyfriend for a weekend. While exploring the crypts they discover an old dusty book, which describes the life of a vampire. As the story unfolds, it becomes apparent that the vampire was Rebecca's great grandfather, Rico. Later that night Rebecca finds herself in a trance, reciting an occult ritual described in the book resulting in the opening of the coffin and the new life for Rico. The Angel of the Night is back.
Nattens engel (1998) Reviews
Not bad
Rebecca (Maria Karlsen), her boyfriend Mads (Tomas Villum Jensen) and party-girl friend Charlotte (Mette Louise Holland) decide to spend the night in a creepy mansion, former home of Rebecca's occult-obsessed grandmother. They sit around sipping wine and read from a book called "Nattens Engel," meaning we're in for lots and lots of flashbacks. "Experienced" vampire Rico Moritz appears young (Christian Grenvall) or old (Erik Holmey), can morph into a (small or giant) bat or rat, can be killed with a special dagger and has been terrorizing the area for over a century. Three main story lines zoom back and forth from 1850 to "a few years ago" back to present day and involve the fates of various people who've crossed Rico's path over the years, including 19th Century witch hunters, a gun-totting group of young vampire hunters and a woman he rapes to sire his offspring. The finale returns to Rebecca and Co. where blood revives Rico (again) and, in a really amazing (and weird!) finale, an angel arrives to take the troubled ghoul to heaven! Although it SHOULD have been subtitled (the dubbing never matches the lips), you can tell it was a major release in Germany. ANGEL has a high budget look, the actors and FX are good, the music score (by the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra!) is elegant and the action/horror scenes are well directed. It's entertaining despite the flaws, fluctuations in tone and confusion (this thing even goes to Peru at one point!). Fangoria handled the U.S. video release.
"A shadow fell over the city and people began to fear the setting sun."
~Spoiler~ If Robert Rodriguez made a vampire flick it would be...From Dusk Till Dawn. If someone who obviously admired Robert Rodriguez made a vampire flick, it would be Angel of the Night. From the get-go of this Fangoria release the bad dubbing stirs a lot of laughter but by the second act everyone is usually into it. There are a hundred flaws like this, but I'm going to forgive most of them because the movie wasn't unwatchable. It borrows heavily from many other films, such as From Dusk Till Dawn, Desperado, Kindred: The Embraced, and even Demon Knight. The action is very stylized and the gunfights are straight out of the John Woo/Robert Rodriguez handbook. At one point a Spanish character with long hair is even called Banderas. That same scene is the one to watch for: the hallway shootout. It's nicely done. I absolutely love the part when the vampire morphs into the mouse and then gets blown away by the sawed off, double barrel (which is used in practically every scene). Angel of the Night is an excellent, although very corny, low-budgeter. I wasn't expecting too much when I watched it, but I got a little more than I bargained for. That's what usually makes for the best movies.
Uneven derivation.
This debut feature from Shaky Gonzalez is a sort of fill-in-the-blanks John Woo/Robert Rodriguez/Lucio Fulci wannabe that while entertaining enough is still so obviously derivative that there´s a heavy feeling of deja-vu over the entire film. Its impressive cast (which seems to be missing only Kim Bodnia) is mostly wasted, but Erik Holmey easily steals the film with his intimidating vampire leader, Rico Mortiz (great name!). It´s hard to completely dislike an attempt at a full-blooded Danish supernatural horror movie, but the result is a bit too loose and even amateurish at times, but Gonzalez earns an A for effort and is a talent to watch out for. Definite cult possibilities, though.
Disappointing Danish Vampire Flick
Shaky González' "Nattens Engel" aka "Angel Of The Night" of 1998 is a bearable, but disappointing vampire flick, that was obviously intended to be kind of a Danish "From Dusk Till Dawn", but it seems more like a Danish "Texas Blood Money" to me. When Rebecca (Maria Stokholm), her boyfriend Mads (Tomas Villum Jensen) and her best friend Charlotte (Mette Louise Holland) come to a Gothic mansion, which Rebecca has inherited, they find an old book which tells the tale of a powerful vampire. As they read it, they find out that the vampire described in the book is actually Rebecca's great-grandfather, a priest who was turned into a vampire 100 years ago when fighting a maiden-ripping monster. Most of the performances in "Nattens Engel" are not even that bad, and the supporting cast contains three well-known Danish actors, Ulrich Thomsen, Mads Michelsen and Thomas Bo Larsen in small roles. But the director Shaky González just seems to try too hard to resemble movies like "From Dusk Till Dawn" and doesn't manage to mix vampire horror, with lots of gun-play and action and some martial-arts-style fighting sequences in an appropriate way. Over all, the script is simply pretty bad and the plot has huge holes. In some parts the movie is shot in fairly cool camera angles, which look OK but in no way original or imaginative. "Nattens Engel" is a rather disappointing film with a weak plot, but it's not one of those films that have to be avoided at all costs. Some of the women are lovely to look at and there is a fair amount of gore. As a big fan of B-Horror and exploitation, I personally found it bearable, though disappointing. I wouldn't recommend "Angel Of The Night", but if you want to watch it, make sure you have enough beer at home. 3/10
Danish vampire runs rampant
This is something as unusual as a Danish vampire movie. What can I say? It is not the best vampire movie I've ever seen, but absolutely the funniest. The film makers has used some elements from the role-playing game "Vampire: The Masquerade" and the effects of this is quite amusing, if you happen to play it, like I do. Nonetheless, the movie is definitely worth seeing if you're a fan of vampire movies.