Review – Against the Dark

I rented this because I figured the combination of Steven Seagal and post-apocalyptic vampires would guarantee entertainment value. Yeah, in retrospect I have to admit that the theory sounds fairly stupid. For starters, Seagal isn’t in all that much of it, which is probably for the best because his high-quality martial arts days appear to be behind him. The rest of the picture isn’t any better. A rag-tag band of human survivors try to avoid vampires – that act just like “the infected” from 28 Days Later, so how exactly that makes them vampires is … well, never mind – as they make their way video game style through several levels of an abandoned hospital (exteriors of which appear to have been shot at the same place where they made Stephen King’s Kingdom Hospital). It doesn’t even have any good scares along the way. It’s just one long, predictable snooze fest. See if desperate