Vampirism was the only one classic theme of the Horror gender that John Carpenter had not treated yet in his almost thirty years of career, though certain tappings of the essence of the myth can be glimpsed in some of his movies. With Vampires Carpenter, finally, finds a particular history on which to offer his peculiar vision of the vampirism in a film that the own directer qualifies as a western, something which considerably influence the musical style as its soundtrack. As opposed to his previous work as director and musician, Escape from L.A. (we recall that Carpenter is a case almost unique within the film world, being the composer of most of the scores of his own films), and as consequence of the border tone of the plot, the musical collaboration of the composer/director is established with blues and rock musicians, offering a sound in tone with the spirit of the film but what, as usual with his music, results little creative outside the movie. When all is said and done Carpenter continues to being a genial gender director, but a mediocre composer; what is curious is that the result joint of all his creative activities results perfect: The same force that contains his repetitious and scarcely inspirate music help to increase the tension of his films, but prevents that its hearing separately result little less than a curiosity. M.A.F.

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