Ham (Arifin Putra) and Jody (Eloise Lovell Anderson) are deeply in love and one would be pleasantly surprised to see the two of them together. When Ham is let go from his employment, the couple flees to a trailer park nicknamed ‘Bogieville’ and are told they can stay with certain restrictions. One of the restrictions is that the couple is not allowed to go outside especially at night. There are other restrictions including the basement. The occupants paid no heed to these restrictions and met the family of Vampires who went further to tell them that their clan had been embroiled in internal violence, which was the reason for their involvement. A member of the division in question is being pursued through a sequence of victims by a police detective who has not lost track of the suspect. Now, all of the characters are on the same plane and it is just a war declaration waiting to happen.
One would expect that Bogieville would end up being one of those silly movies that contain vampires and are filled with some trashy cliches, yet it is anything but. “First impression matters,” and in this case one cannot help but be overcome by anger at how Bogieville is presented with so much camp and kitsch. It is strange to witness the Southern accents on a handful of English performers.
To make things worse, the menstruating woman’s blood scent attracting vampires was nicely soaked in just the right level of camp to give it the same amusing quality as The Lost Boys, raising the camp factor higher than the story would ever care to indulge in. It is a disorientating feeling when one switches to community politics after seeing that. As for Bogieville its overall vibe hastens to somewhere in between Stakeland and Near Dark, but sadly appears to never reach either because of too many neglects.
That said, an even bigger negative is that it does not have to exceed 110 minutes. This creates the effect wherein Bogieville becomes bloated with wasted scenes and causes the audience to wish the story would progress to the last showdown faster. The cop subplot does introduce some interesting new perspectives onto the vampire movie, but does cause the tempo to falter as well. If Bogieville let its sights set on either Ham and Jody , or the cops looking into the murders, the pace would be tighter structure and easier to follow. As it is, there’s at least an attempt to integrate them both components competing to be the final product resulting in a not very fluid mess.
People are so captivated that there is even an entire podcast called Vampire Videos where people try to figure out the many interpretations of the entities. There is a classic fear of the sun and in addition, vampires in Bogieville have an enhanced sense of smell which is similar to that of a shark to detect blood. They mostly look rather vein-like which is a style variation we have seen before but is done well in this case.
Hollywood actress Julie Estelle was great and there are certainly a few great parts to be found in this half-baked movie but the movie Bogieville suffers from too much disorder and disorientation hence unfortunately, the great moments do not shine as they would otherwise.
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