The Death of Alice Blue (2009) User Reviews (3)

Vampires at an advertisement agency create havoc on themselves

[rasecz · 6/10 · 23 March 2009]

Theater of the absurd featuring vampires is the alternative summary for this bizarre Gothic concoction. I came to it on account of the established reputation of the venue. I can't say I was satisfied, but nor was I put off. The whole thing is so weird and exaggerated that it rises to the level of parody.

The Raven advertisement agency is a rundown, rat infested, retro place populated by snidey and arrogant employees. Alice Blue is a newbie hired on a Friday and working her first full Monday as the movie opens. In a period of five weekdays, Alice will morph from a meek girl to a confident killing machine. It will be a bloody Friday afternoon. TGIF.

The plot is a mash-up, but put that on the account of parody. The important mission of the film is to assemble the requisite action sequences, clichés, and humor. Examples of the later: (1) a vampire sucks a victim dry and suggests they go out to lunch some day; (2) a proposed ad for Nether Wines is to call attention to the nether regions.

The theatrical style of acting enhances the tongue-in-cheek attitude of many characters. The director plays one of the main roles and his droll and goofy demeanor is endearing. It is left to the main actress the role of the transformative character: a dainty start, a grunge makeover, a Gothic look upgrade, a sexual awakening, finally reaching the status of vengeful vamp. If you get my drift.

The battle royal near the end is a great parody which blends the vampire/slasher genre with office politics. During a presentation to a customer, the vampires create mayhem with the tools of the professional class: rulers decapitate, pens penetrate eyes, tacks are hurled at bodies, laptops serve as shields, metal pointers impale chests, security cameras squash heads and so forth. The gore is nicely contained. Before the blood has had the time to dry, the impassive customer will have signed the contract with the agency.

At the end, the meek inherit the store. A biblical ending of sorts. If only office politics could have such satisfying ends.

At the start you'll see "Part I: The Blood-Sucking Vampires of Advertisement". There is no part II. A sequel perhaps? Not for me.

A pile of pretentious random semi coherent nonsense

[Corpus_Vile · 3/10 · 7 May 2011]

Alice (Alex Appel, by far the best thing in this stupid film) is a weirdo with a new job in this decrepit horrible looking agency, with deeply unpleasant weirdo co-workers However, it turns out that the agency is run by vampires. (oh noes...) But, her co-workers (for reasons best known to themselves) are prepared to help her stop the vampires... doing whatever scheme they have in mind.

But wait- it turns out Alex may actually be a vampire herself, or at least from some long line of super vampires. Or... something.

Does this add an exciting twist to the tale? Nope. I'm being vague here because this film makes no frickin sense, has silly random for the sake of it scenes and is deeply deeply annoying and pretentious. Yes, pretentious. I don't like using the word and you probably don't like reading the word. Reason being, it's often a lazy way of reviewing a film, with the word "pretentious" often being used as a substitute for "I didn't understand it". But trust me folks... this film is waaaay pretentious. Notice how I have said very little about the actual plot? That's because the *cough* "plot" is a convoluted mess. The performances (with the exception of producer and star Alex Appel) are terrible. I could actually imagine some dude offscreen with the script lines written in huge block capital letters, they're that unconvincing.

Anyway, it really really sucked (no pun intended) and I don't even have the passion to review it heartily as it's just a pile of random scenes held (sort of) together by a very threadbare plot.

A very generous 3/10, mainly for Alex Appel, and the fact that it at least tried to put a different spin on things, even if it did fail miserably.

The death of Alice Blue is more like the death of the viewers who physically wasted time watching this.

[jordondave-28085 · 1/10 · 2 May 2023]

(2009) The Death Of Alice Blue HORROR

Low budget vampire movie which the entire movie or environment takes place at an office building. Written and directed by Park Bench, starring Alex Appel as Alice Blue, who's just been employed as an intern or as an office worker, unaware that some of them may or may not be vampires, with some surprising unrevealing results as the movie is progressing. The death of Alice Blue is more like, the death of the viewers who physically wasted time watching this. Probably made from an abandoned building, somewhere with cheap effects and really bad second rate acting. Bomb.