I would add Romero's Of The Dead movies to the mixture. I also wonder if the name of the main protagonist is a tribute to Romero's vampire movie - Martin :) Besides that zombielike vampires feels like a nod to the The Last Man on Earth, with Vincent Price, in which ghouls (that supposedly inspired Romero) were called vampires. Cheers!
A movie that deserves more attetion and a channel that deserves more attetion. I found you through Stuckmanns recommendation and I love your stuff! Keep it up!
Same here. Found through Stuckmann. Si far this seems to be the best movie related stuff on the web! Second only to the uncomparable Red Letter Media. And this movie rocks too, usually not a vampire guy, but this movie is just fantastic. One of the finest examples in world building.
Yeah thanks man I put my soul into these videos. It really means alot that you would comment on my dedication and let me know you care. Some people just don't get fans like all of you here at DBZ Bootleg Rips. Wait... what channel am I on? This isn't my video? Were you talkin to Good Bad Flicks... wait why is he here... oh... ok... I see now huh well. Ok... alright... ok.
one of the best vampire apocalypse movies! I must confess, I had to stop and restart the movie a few days later because the opening scene was horrifying (infant was just too damned realistic!)... I'm glad I went back.
Stake Land is one of my favourite movies. It has everything I love: An apocalyptic wasteland, creepy vampires, calm moments and characters you just have to love. One of my best discoveries ever.
Love this movie. I remember renting it thinking it was a B movie version of stakeland and being surprised how awesome it is. Glad there's another coming out.
What a really interesting backstory. I love films like this, where cast and extras are just people they brought in for it. There's a documentary series about a zombie movie being shot in a small town over six years where practically the entire town get involved in the production in some way or another. And of course Bad Taste where the director got all his mates from work for the cast, and the extras were everyone's brothers and uncles and whatnot. I really enjoyed the vampire apocalyse angle. A sequel is good news, but jeez... Stake Lander?
Just saw it and loved it. It felt so unique and well-directed. I'm shocked at how small was the budget. It didn't feel like a small budget movie at all. this just goes to show that passion, vision, good storytelling are the true core components of a great movie, unlike those overblown Hollywood movies.
it's amazing how much each individual crew member did, like the credits on this movie are alike 2/3 shorter than I was expecting them to be for a movie so good. and all the actors and actresses were great. seriously awesome and high quality movie. I recommend it to everyone I know.
Wow, I'm glad - and surprised to see so many people enjoying this movie. I kept telling every friend of mine about it, and they all were like "eh". To see, what's behind the scenes makes it even more enjoyable. Great Video!
Your channel is an inspiration to film students like me. It is so sad more of us don't follow you. But I'm trying my best. Because seriously, you're the best.
Another great episode of "Exploring". I love this series. More informative than anything else out right now about movies. Thanks, as always, for all the hard work.
This movie has, like the gamers say, a high replay factor. The area's where alot of Stake Land was filmed, Boyertown, Pottstown etc. is my stomping ground, my backyard. So cool recognizing places. Especially in such a cool ass movie!
I love your videos, man. Most critics hate on films, it is great to see someone actually defending them and showing what went on behind the scenes and how much the producers can affect the final product.
I'll agree with you on stake land, but I felt like the sequel was a massive let down; just a convoluted mess from start to finish, the pacing and characters just completely awful.
@@courtneyclark1215 They're night and day, Stakeland feels and looks like a hollywood movie, stakeland feels like a direct to video scy fy channel movie.
this was the first movie I watched when I opened a Netflix account in 2012. The story is amazing! I love well written horror movies! Can't wait for the sequel!
As someone who doesn't even watch horror movies these day I watched this one by pure chance and was amazing movie, now seeing how they did it even more amazing. Reminds me of The Evil Dead which was an absolute passion project...
I just love your "Exploring..." Thank you. It's an enormous job of research and passion that i really admire. I'm checking out Stake Land in this very moment.
1:38 I use to have chairs just like that in my house!... Always love to see your Exploring series. Quick insights into how movies get made are really cool.
I had a chance to watch this a couple years ago and passed thinking it was some B-movie. I will definitely be looking it up now. I love seeing directors staying passionate about a project and even manage to make something most would see as a negative somehow work in their favor. Glad to hear they are finding some success!!!
Late Phases is great, really fun werewolf flick with a neat twist on the concept. I remember enjoying Stakeland, might need to watch it again soon as it's been a while.
When I watched this movie for the first time I thought it was made by one of major Hollywood studios. The story, acting and post production quality were that yea high.
absolutely love these kind of videos, its fascinating and insightful to learn the motivation behind some films that I never really thought twice about, and to see that many of them were made with genuine passion
I think the reason i watched this was cause of a recommendation from you, and i definitely did not regret that choice as i enjoyed the movie thoroughly. Love your videos and hope you keep them coming.
Do The Wailing! It's a Korean horror-ish, suspense-ish, mystery-ish movie. But it is such a refreshing take on the horror genre. The twists are superbly done and the comedic relief definitely falls in place masterfully. It is 2:30 long but it's definitely worth a watch.
Stake Land is amazing. Yes, it's an awesome horror movie and apocolyptic movie, but the characters are AMAZING. By the end you really are totally invested in them and want to see everyone make it.
Really like that film production details and crew biography info which you provide, I probably will never know these facts if not have seen them in this video.
*SPOILER CHARACTER DEATH* I’m 16 now and my mother was watching this film back in around 2013 so I was about 10 at the time, I actually was kinda watching it but also was on my laptop watching RUclips at the same time so I was sorta paying attention, none of it really scared me that much and I thought it looked pretty average, however.... there was one scene that fucked me up for YEARS, it’s the scene right near the end of the movie, where the main kid goes looking for the pregnant girl and he finds her wrapped up in barbed wire covered in her blood as it’s being drained out, the fact that they did that to a pregnant girl(and also the fact that I kinda had a lil mini crush on her)fucked my little 10yr brain up for years, didn’t help by the fact that the vampire says the creepiest line of the movie right after “I am your God now” that shit has always stuck with me, just that one scene, the rest of the movie is in my opinion a bit average, but that one fucking scene...
I was pleasantly surprised with this movie. I picked it up thinking it probably wouldnt be any good but maybe worth a watch. I found the characters interesting... it was suspenseful and had some great fight sequences. It felt like a long episode of the walking dead with vampires instead of zombies
Another excellent movie and interesting take on vampires, love the different species and it pulls no punches on the dread that permeates throughout the movie. I think if I did a top ten vampire movies list it would definitely be on there.
Just watched Stake Land II last night. It's an okay sequel, would have been better with a little more money but seems more like a series than a movie at this point.
Since it originally came out, I've introduced this film to a number of people (have even shown it twice outdoors on my digital projector). Didn't know there was a sequel coming, looking forward to that. I'll mention this review on the digital radio show I cohost, The Skullz Show on FCCFREERADIO, later tonight.
I remember watching this about the time it came out, and at the same time I was reading The Passage by Justin Cronin. I kept thinking how awesome it would be if the people who made Stake Land would get picked to do a film adaptation of that book, since there's a ton of similarities.
Joe Lansdale (Cold in July author) wrote a short story called "Dead in the West" about an alcoholic, gun-toting preacher who wanders into a small Texas town and helps fight off an Indian curse and an army of the undead. It's even more awesome than it sounds. I want nothing more than for Jim Mickle to do that film with Nick Damici in the lead role. Mickle and Damici also created the Hap and Leonard series, so I know they can handle Lansdale's work. Had I the money, I would produce that movie.
I watched We are What We Are earlier and loved it. Stake Land is on Netflix, and I may have to watch it now. Goddammit, Cecil lol. Netflix has consumed my life.
I remember watching this on chiller a few years back and I was in love with it, first time a horror movie of all things made me cry. This movie if you think about it, has a last of us feel (the first 1 anyway)
I love this movie! So glad you did an exploring Cecil!! BTW I just saw Larry Fessenden in this cool horror flick called Carnage Park this weekend... the ending was kinda weak but it was pretty decent overall, def worth the watch....
Wow, I knew they worked on a thin budget, but only 625K? That makes it even more impressive considering this both looks and feels better than most vampire/apocalypse flicks I've seen. It's one of my favorite post-apolyptical movies (and favorite Danielle Harris movie to boot). I also liked how they made the creatures having more in common with braindead zombies than traditional vampires.
This is such a good movie. I had some store credit at a Manifest store. I found it and decided to buy it with not knowing anything about it. I'm glad I did! Also Late Phases is good.
I was the costume designer of Stake Land and it was a life changing experience to be a part of
Awesome! You truly were a part of a one of a kind movie. Great job.
Thank You! It's a gem. Mucho gratitude. Your work was seamless in a film virtually without seams!
janelane92 I know I'm late commenting but I absolutely loved this film and you're awesome😊
oh really
This is true because it’s in RUclips comments.
this movie was like if The Road, Road Warrior, and 30 days of night had an incredibly beautiful baby.
That's actually a pretty good description of the movie lol
I would add Romero's Of The Dead movies to the mixture.
I also wonder if the name of the main protagonist is a tribute to Romero's vampire movie - Martin :)
Besides that zombielike vampires feels like a nod to the The Last Man on Earth, with Vincent Price, in which ghouls (that supposedly inspired Romero) were called vampires.
Cheers!
A movie that deserves more attetion and a channel that deserves more attetion. I found you through Stuckmanns recommendation and I love your stuff! Keep it up!
Thank you!
Same here. Found through Stuckmann. Si far this seems to be the best movie related stuff on the web! Second only to the uncomparable Red Letter Media.
And this movie rocks too, usually not a vampire guy, but this movie is just fantastic. One of the finest examples in world building.
Man, I've been binge watching your vids. You deserve more subs!
Thanks!
Watched 50 of his vids. Totaly forgot to sub. Just subbed.
Man you do such an amazing job on these "Exploring" series videos, you deserve way more recognition dude. Props.
Thank you!
Yeah thanks man I put my soul into these videos. It really means alot that you would comment on my dedication and let me know you care. Some people just don't get fans like all of you here at DBZ Bootleg Rips. Wait... what channel am I on? This isn't my video? Were you talkin to Good Bad Flicks... wait why is he here... oh... ok... I see now huh well. Ok... alright... ok.
one of the best vampire apocalypse movies! I must confess, I had to stop and restart the movie a few days later because the opening scene was horrifying (infant was just too damned realistic!)... I'm glad I went back.
I know many had problems with that scene. Extremely cruel, but it effectively sets the tone for the rest of the film.
"As God as my witness, i thought vampires could fly" - Les Nessman, probably.
Stake Land is one of my favourite movies. It has everything I love: An apocalyptic wasteland, creepy vampires, calm moments and characters you just have to love. One of my best discoveries ever.
Love this movie. I remember renting it thinking it was a B movie version of stakeland and being surprised how awesome it is. Glad there's another coming out.
Easily one of the best vampire movies ive ever seen.
once again you've done a wonderful job of informing me on a movie I would otherwise pass right over. can't wait to see this now. thanks Cecil!
Excellent! Hope you enjoy it!
This is one of my favorite movies.
What a really interesting backstory. I love films like this, where cast and extras are just people they brought in for it. There's a documentary series about a zombie movie being shot in a small town over six years where practically the entire town get involved in the production in some way or another. And of course Bad Taste where the director got all his mates from work for the cast, and the extras were everyone's brothers and uncles and whatnot.
I really enjoyed the vampire apocalyse angle. A sequel is good news, but jeez... Stake Lander?
everything about this movie are just right, the plot, the cast, the locations, everything just comes together nicely.
really a underrated movie.
I prayed for the day Vampires would be apart of Horror again, and this has renewed my faith in it.
Just saw it and loved it. It felt so unique and well-directed. I'm shocked at how small was the budget. It didn't feel like a small budget movie at all.
this just goes to show that passion, vision, good storytelling are the true core components of a great movie, unlike those overblown Hollywood movies.
it's amazing how much each individual crew member did, like the credits on this movie are alike 2/3 shorter than I was expecting them to be for a movie so good. and all the actors and actresses were great. seriously awesome and high quality movie. I recommend it to everyone I know.
Wow, I'm glad - and surprised to see so many people enjoying this movie. I kept telling every friend of mine about it, and they all were like "eh".
To see, what's behind the scenes makes it even more enjoyable.
Great Video!
It's one of the best movies ever made.
It is so encouraging to see filmmakers make the best use of all their resources to create great work.
Your channel is an inspiration to film students like me. It is so sad more of us don't follow you. But I'm trying my best. Because seriously, you're the best.
God these movies are hidden treasures
Another great episode of "Exploring". I love this series. More informative than anything else out right now about movies. Thanks, as always, for all the hard work.
This movie has, like the gamers say, a high replay factor.
The area's where alot of Stake Land was filmed, Boyertown, Pottstown etc. is my stomping ground, my backyard.
So cool recognizing places. Especially in such a cool ass movie!
I love your videos, man.
Most critics hate on films, it is great to see someone actually defending them and showing what went on behind the scenes and how much the producers can affect the final product.
I watched this movie once and I still remember it being absolutely terrifying. I need to watch it again.
8:42 - Ah, Chance Kelley - excellent actor and a real nice guy. Met him a couple of times at a small rifle and pistol range in NY.
Stake Land and Stakelander are refreshingly awesome films. Thanks for all of the info on how it was made, though! It makes it all the more impressive.
Glad you enjoyed them!
I'll agree with you on stake land, but I felt like the sequel was a massive let down; just a convoluted mess from start to finish, the pacing and characters just completely awful.
@@courtneyclark1215 They're night and day, Stakeland feels and looks like a hollywood movie, stakeland feels like a direct to video scy fy channel movie.
this was the first movie I watched when I opened a Netflix account in 2012. The story is amazing! I love well written horror movies! Can't wait for the sequel!
I love this movie and have seen it more than a few times and had no idea Sister was Kelly McGillis! lol
years later this movies is still my all time favorite
As someone who doesn't even watch horror movies these day I watched this one by pure chance and was amazing movie, now seeing how they did it even more amazing. Reminds me of The Evil Dead which was an absolute passion project...
I just love your "Exploring..." Thank you. It's an enormous job of research and passion that i really admire. I'm checking out Stake Land in this very moment.
1:38 I use to have chairs just like that in my house!...
Always love to see your Exploring series. Quick insights into how movies get made are really cool.
I always come back to this video every so often. Thanks for introducing me to Jim Mickles movies. Keep up the great work Cecil!
You are welcome! :)
I had a chance to watch this a couple years ago and passed thinking it was some B-movie. I will definitely be looking it up now. I love seeing directors staying passionate about a project and even manage to make something most would see as a negative somehow work in their favor. Glad to hear they are finding some success!!!
I love how in depth his videos are,sublime!
Thanks!
Late Phases is great, really fun werewolf flick with a neat twist on the concept. I remember enjoying Stakeland, might need to watch it again soon as it's been a while.
When I watched this movie for the first time I thought it was made by one of major Hollywood studios. The story, acting and post production quality were that yea high.
absolutely love these kind of videos, its fascinating and insightful to learn the motivation behind some films that I never really thought twice about, and to see that many of them were made with genuine passion
Thank you!
I think the reason i watched this was cause of a recommendation from you, and i definitely did not regret that choice as i enjoyed the movie thoroughly. Love your videos and hope you keep them coming.
I loved how stake land is like the walking Dead and they should have made a series of the stake landers, that's what I have to say!!!
Glad you brought attention to this film. This is one of the best underrated horror movie i have seen and happy and excited for the sequel :)
I love your Exploring series. Without your fantastic channel, I would have missed so many great movies. Thank you for the great show!
I love this movie!! For a low budget horror it is very well produced and the acting is great!
I think that Stake Land is very entertaining. Enjoyed it very much.
Do The Wailing! It's a Korean horror-ish, suspense-ish, mystery-ish movie. But it is such a refreshing take on the horror genre. The twists are superbly done and the comedic relief definitely falls in place masterfully.
It is 2:30 long but it's definitely worth a watch.
i just discovered your channel and DEVOURED your "exploring" reviews, it´s amazing to know the work behind some movies... keep it up!
Thank you!
This is a movie that I always see on Netflix, but I have always passed on it. I am definitely going to check it out. Great work as always.
I was blown away by Stakeland. Like the werewolf, a good vampire movie is hard to find.
Dude! Yet ANOTHER awesome recommendation from GBF - I cant wait to see it. I love love love binging your show. Please don’t stop.
Thanks! Hope you enjoy it!
damn I never heard of this movie I'm going to give this movie a watch
it is a really good movie!
+dion staples it looks good is thus on bluray
yes
This is very good!
Wow $625k! Brilliant movie, and chillingly now
Jim Mickle and Nick Damici are awesome. I love all their films. And Larry Fessenden is just awesome. Love that guy too
“We are what we are “ and “Cold in July” and really good films too.
I live in one of the towns in PA where the movie was shot in. I was upset to see that I wasn't one of the extras. XD
This was an awesome movie and deserves more attention
Watching this on netflix right now because of your review. Feels like new life for vampire movies, much like You're Next felt for slasher-like movies.
amazing review as usual. Your ability to gather info and put it together is truly uncanny.
Just the thing I needed to get me to finally watch this film
Stake Land is amazing. Yes, it's an awesome horror movie and apocolyptic movie, but the characters are AMAZING. By the end you really are totally invested in them and want to see everyone make it.
I love when these guys introduce me to flicks I might had missed when they initiated came out!
Really like that film production details and crew biography info which you provide, I probably will never know these facts if not have seen them in this video.
One of my favourite vamp films, and the sequel
*SPOILER CHARACTER DEATH*
I’m 16 now and my mother was watching this film back in around 2013 so I was about 10 at the time, I actually was kinda watching it but also was on my laptop watching RUclips at the same time so I was sorta paying attention, none of it really scared me that much and I thought it looked pretty average, however.... there was one scene that fucked me up for YEARS, it’s the scene right near the end of the movie, where the main kid goes looking for the pregnant girl and he finds her wrapped up in barbed wire covered in her blood as it’s being drained out, the fact that they did that to a pregnant girl(and also the fact that I kinda had a lil mini crush on her)fucked my little 10yr brain up for years, didn’t help by the fact that the vampire says the creepiest line of the movie right after “I am your God now” that shit has always stuck with me, just that one scene, the rest of the movie is in my opinion a bit average, but that one fucking scene...
Your mother disappoints me.
I was pleasantly surprised with this movie. I picked it up thinking it probably wouldnt be any good but maybe worth a watch. I found the characters interesting... it was suspenseful and had some great fight sequences. It felt like a long episode of the walking dead with vampires instead of zombies
You have a gift for digging up underrated gold.
Been meaning to watch "Cold in July." Doing that tonight!
Another excellent movie and interesting take on vampires, love the different species and it pulls no punches on the dread that permeates throughout the movie. I think if I did a top ten vampire movies list it would definitely be on there.
Just watched Stake Land II last night. It's an okay sequel, would have been better with a little more money but seems more like a series than a movie at this point.
I remember looking forward to its release. Good vampire movie. Rarely get any these days
Since it originally came out, I've introduced this film to a number of people (have even shown it twice outdoors on my digital projector). Didn't know there was a sequel coming, looking forward to that. I'll mention this review on the digital radio show I cohost, The Skullz Show on FCCFREERADIO, later tonight.
Stake Land is good movie i can't help but wonder if this is where they got the idea for Days Gone.
Such a great horror film. A rare feat where deaths actually mean something other than a bigger body count.
The short that was the little boy's film project was the best short.
I remember watching this about the time it came out, and at the same time I was reading The Passage by Justin Cronin. I kept thinking how awesome it would be if the people who made Stake Land would get picked to do a film adaptation of that book, since there's a ton of similarities.
I have not seen this movie but I shall rectify that immediately as it looks wonderful.
2 minutes in and I already want to see this movie again.
I guess I'll have to leave this video for later.
Sequel to Stake Land is out later this year, didn't know that. Awesome.
A film I'd most likely have passed on... until now. Very interesting video dude, well done.
That was a very good vampire movie very few have seen most recently.
Jesus Christ I didn't know the same guy directed this late phases and cold in July. I love those movies
this movie, we are what we are, late phases and cold in july are all fantastic movies
i love the movies these guys make! thank you for the breakdown, lots of great info.
They should have used the road,from the movie THE ROAD. Its an actual abandoned stretch of road in the back woods of MaryLand i think.
Damn, I would've never guessed this movie only had a budget of $650k. Those film makers have some mad skills.
I had no idea the budget was that small! Shows what a good job they did.
$650k is still a lot of money.
I was very impressed by this movie the first time I saw it.
Joe Lansdale (Cold in July author) wrote a short story called "Dead in the West" about an alcoholic, gun-toting preacher who wanders into a small Texas town and helps fight off an Indian curse and an army of the undead. It's even more awesome than it sounds.
I want nothing more than for Jim Mickle to do that film with Nick Damici in the lead role. Mickle and Damici also created the Hap and Leonard series, so I know they can handle Lansdale's work.
Had I the money, I would produce that movie.
I loved Stakeland, and if anyone else wants to see it, last I checked it was still on Netflix!
Also, totally didn't recognize Martin from Gossip Girl.
i watched this on netflix a while ago, it was a grateful surprise.
I watched We are What We Are earlier and loved it. Stake Land is on Netflix, and I may have to watch it now.
Goddammit, Cecil lol. Netflix has consumed my life.
I remember watching this on chiller a few years back and I was in love with it, first time a horror movie of all things made me cry. This movie if you think about it, has a last of us feel (the first 1 anyway)
good flick - sequel wasnt so bad either
I love this movie! So glad you did an exploring Cecil!! BTW
I just saw Larry Fessenden in this cool horror flick called Carnage Park this weekend... the ending was kinda weak but it was pretty decent overall, def worth the watch....
Such a great movie. I've seen it a few times.
Fantastic movie, and as always amazing piece about how they did it. Keep em comin Cecil!
Thanks!
Wow, I knew they worked on a thin budget, but only 625K? That makes it even more impressive considering this both looks and feels better than most vampire/apocalypse flicks I've seen.
It's one of my favorite post-apolyptical movies (and favorite Danielle Harris movie to boot). I also liked how they made the creatures having more in common with braindead zombies than traditional vampires.
Great review! One of my all time fave films!
I like vampires, I like post apocalypse. So for me, this was a match made in heaven :)
This is actually a good film. Found this movie by accident.
This is such a good movie. I had some store credit at a Manifest store. I found it and decided to buy it with not knowing anything about it. I'm glad I did!
Also Late Phases is good.
Hm... I've completely missed this. Gonna have to watch it now.
Thanks Cecil, good video as usual :)