Central Park Drifter

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Trailer—Graveyard Shift

Graveyard Shift

So, I went into this movie thinking: Okay, a hairy Italian vampire who walks around without clothes on a lot of the time, how could it be that bad? Well, as it turns out, they found a way to do it. I was only uh.. 5 when this movie came out but, I still can't figure for the life of me what was going on during the script production. There was just a lot of things that didn't make sense. For example, why was Stephen going to die? How could he make himself die? By not drinking blood? The dialogue lead me to believe he had initiated something that would cause him to die, besides just not feeding. Also, why did the women seem to go insane after becoming 'lovers' with Stephen?

I've seen a lot of vampire movies in my day. It is mostly about Count Dracula, or descendants of him. This one, Stephen(Silvio Oliviero) is looking for a fare, moonlighting as a taxi driver. He sets his sights on the victims and claims her as his true love. The bloodlust is so intense, the appetite is insatiable. A video maker is the next victim. She is dying, and wants a second chance of life. The encounter is so intense, but causes conflict with her husband. He's not as faithful as he claims, but he wants to work things out. Most vampire films goes straight to the jugular. This one goes straight to the heart. Way more sexual than other films. I like it very much. 2.5 out of 5 stars.

What a very unique little obscure oddity this thing is. What really helps Graveyard Shift (aka Central Park Drifter or Central Park Driver) is its heavy use of style, using a variety of neon's, reds, blues, and ultimately coming off very neo-noirish, not to mention its soundtrack which relies on a variety of synths and other types of 80s style music. While the acting isn't the greatest, the film gives us a lot nudity and stylish sex scenes. The overall product really reminds me a lot of Tony Scott's The Hunger. Defiantly recommended.

A ridiculously dull vampire film coming out at a time when there were a lot of them, some of which are now considered modern classics. It has an interesting premise with a city cab driver working the graveyard shift seducing one of his passengers and ending up turning her into a vampire when his toothy nature takes over. But she apparently has an estranged husband who is out for revenge. That pathetic plotline turns out to be the premise for 85 minutes of sexual activity surrounding a teeny tiny plot. The cast is very boring and really hasn't any Spark and the film just isn't all that interesting although a scene where the cab driver vampire is attacked by a group of thugs who shoot him and he rises from the presumed dead did amuse me. The fact that there is a sequel to this makes no sense, especially since both films came from an independent production company that was apparently in business for about 10 minutes.

I have to disagree with the last reviewer. The movie is not as bad as he makes it out to be. Yeah, of course it has it's faults like majority of 80's B Grade movies but I haven't seen Central Park Drifter in years up until now and still find the film to be watchable. If you are looking for the hairs to stand up on the back of your neck and want to watch this for thrills you won't get it here. If you just want a horror film to watch with vampires involved and has an OK storyline then you can be entertained. If you want to take this seriously as I speculate the previous reviewer did, then you won't. I rate this movie half for its efforts based on storyline and the performances of actors was OK. As for killings...the murders were average and showed little blood. You won't find it gory here.

This was an interesting vampire flick for the premise at least. The 1980's style is great and the film is very noirish, but the pacing is a bit slow and the actual editing is too fast paced, cutting from scene to scene too quickly and leaving you wondering how people got where they were or how things ended up like they did. The score is sorta typical of the mid-late 1980's, which isn't a bad thing as most people would have you believe. The setting and style of the film reminds me of Miami Vice or even Fright Night, which was a better film in my opinion. Still, all things considered, I've seen way worse movies. All in all, worth one watch at least and not the horrible dreck that some folks on here make it out to be. Certainly not the worst movie ever done.