John Carpenter's "Vampires"

This German cinema card shows the lobby poster for John Carpenter's Vampires (known as Vampire in Germany), released in 1998 and starring James Woods as vampire hunter Jack Crow. Film critic Roger Ebert gave the film two-and-a-half stars out of four, and noted that it “has a certain mordant humor and charm,” but was ultimately “not scary, and the plot is just one gory showdown after another.”

But Gene Siskel awarded the film with four out of four stars, calling the film “a high-action homage to westerns and classic horror that actually has a unique story and masterful cinematography” and “a film that should put John Carpenter back on the map as a horror director and a film director in general.” Siskel also expressed his fondness in the fact that the film starred an all-adult cast without any teenagers and portrayed both vampires and vampire hunters in an original way.