This movie is exactly like The Blair Witch Project in the snow for about 9/10 of it. The acting is okay. The story is okay. Because it's literally TBWP. Then it takes a sharp turn into vampire territory. I wouldn't have minded that if it was a surprise. But, when the title of your movie has the word Vampire in it, it's hard to overlook. I kinda liked it. The vampire is creepy as hell and the ending nods to some other cult movies.

Found footage film borrows a bit from The Blair Witch Project and just about every other in the woods film. Standard characters with requisite annoyance and singular focus on "the project" without regard to common sense. The creatures have a certain creepiness to them, but that doesn't make a film. Townsfolk bring a minor element that adds something different to the mix, but it isn't enough to save the film. Okay enough if you like this type of film, but it's nothing new or great.

Over a period of 40 years young women have been found mysterious killed at 10 year intervals of the winter solstice. Raymond Banks has been convicted for the last two. A crew of four people decide to do a film on the incident on what happens to be the 10 year anniversary. They hire a professional camera man because apparently they couldn't cut off heads and jerk the camera around on their own. It was a fairly nice size camera, that I had to think, "Is someone really running holding this thing while being chased by a vampire?"

The production has your typical bad found footage films plus needless build up garbage that doesn't tie into anything. Bill Oberst Jr. did a nice job of Raymond Banks for what little time he was on the screen. The rest of the cast read and screamed their formulaic lines as we await the tail end of the feature to see the creature...which to their credit wasn't the last three frames.

A rental for fans of found footage.

Parental Guide: F-bomb. No sex or nudity.