{"id":552,"date":"2008-09-28T07:13:08","date_gmt":"2008-09-28T11:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"\/blog\/?p=552"},"modified":"2014-02-18T07:14:06","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T12:14:06","slug":"perfect-creature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/?p=552","title":{"rendered":"Perfect Creature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A big thanks to the <a href=\"http:\/\/vampirelibrarian.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/perfect-creature.html\">Vampire Librarian<\/a> for pointing me to this unique crime\/mystery\/steampunk\/vampire movie &#8220;<i>Perfect Creature<\/i>&#8220;. It&#8217;s not a perfect movie; as with many vampire movies there are some strange plot holes, mythologies, and love triangles, but it&#8217;s certainly a fair bit better than many other vampire movies, and certainly the best <em>steampunk <\/em>vampire movie I&#8217;ve ever seen. Though there are &#8220;vampires&#8221;, and the &#8220;brothers&#8221; refer to themselves as such at one or two points in the film, it&#8217;s not really true to the theme of <em>most <\/em>vampire movies since there is no spreading plague of the undead &#8212; vampires are born that way, freaks of nature, and don&#8217;t turn anyone.<\/p>\n<p>All that aside, it does explore some really neat ideas. First up, we&#8217;re presented with a brother gone bad, off feeding on humans like a <em>real <\/em>vampire, and the cover-up that ensues. In the film, vampires are the clergy of this alternate world, the immortal overseers of humanity, and it would be a devastating thing to have it be known that one of them went totally batshit fucking loco. So they handle the cover-up and the shaken confidence fairly well alongside the main story of hunting the bugger down.<\/p>\n<p>It starts to get a little muddled towards the end when the action picks up and the sense goes down, but it&#8217;s still worth a watch, IMHO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A big thanks to the Vampire Librarian for pointing me to this unique crime\/mystery\/steampunk\/vampire movie &#8220;Perfect Creature&#8220;. It&#8217;s not a perfect movie; as with many vampire movies there are some strange plot holes, mythologies, and love triangles, but it&#8217;s certainly a fair bit better than many other vampire movies, and certainly the best steampunk vampire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}