Things that I like about the movie:
- I'll be completely honest here; I only watched this movie because of Fluke. Everyone by now should know how much of an OhmFluke stan I am, so I was excited to see one of Fluke's earlier roles. That being said...DAMN, FLUKE!!!! Okay, this is a role I'd never expected from Fluke Natouch, especially since my first time seeing him was when he played "Pharm" in UWMA. His role as "Wine" in this movie is the complete opposite of Pharm. Where Pharm was the quiet, shy little virgin, Wine is a eager, sex-crazed, love-struck psychopath. I don't think I will ever look at Pharm the same way again, and the fact that Fluke was only 19 YEARS OLD when he did this movie is mindblowing. But that's not a bad thing. The fact that he was able to play such a role in his earlier years, and manage to play a softer role in his current years, speaks high volumes for his acting chops. Fluke is such a strong diverse actor able to pull off any role he's given.
- I've talked about the actor himself, now let's talk about his character in the movie. Wine is a psychopath, there's no two ways around it. That being said, you also see in the beginning that he was trying to find other ways to help quench Night's unique diet, and he was running out of options fast. In Wine's eyes, he not only found a magical, tortured creature of the night, but he also FINALLY found someone who seemed to truly love him for HIM. Not just loving him in private, and not just to dominate him. Even in public, he sees that Night proudly claims Wine as his, and that only deepens how much Wine doesn't want to let him go. Wine is the perfect example of the great lengths even the most sanest of people will go to for love, and how love can be blind. Even though he slowly loses himself to madness, I can't help but feel sympathy for him because I believe if there was any other way to feed Night's appetite for human blood, he would, but using his own blood isn't a permanent solution, no animal blood can be a substitution, and giving Night up or letting him die wasn't an option. Even though we see Wine going mad, we still see that he compassion for others when he agrees to let Tee go rather than let him die.
- I gave credits to our leading star, so let me go over the other casts. All in all, the main cast of this movie were all excellent. Wine has 3 main love interest, each with their own unique perception of love, and each actor were able to perfectly capture those perceptions.
- Of the 3 love interest, my top favorite has to go to Steven Fuhrer, who plays the vampire "Night" in the movie. Night was honestly the least destructive out of the three, which is surprising given that he was the one drinking human's blood. Having amnesia and having Wine be the first person he sees at his weakest, naturally he clings to Wine. He sees the length Wine will go to make sure Night is taken care of which includes slicing his finger or wrists, and it honestly pains him. He has the most compassion for Wine and hates to see him hurt himself for Night's sake, which says a lot about his character. Even towards the end when he sees how evil Wine was becoming on his behalf, he still couldn't find it in him to berate Wine. He instead puts the blame on himself and takes himself out of the equation, which honestly broke my heart to see.
- Nontapat, who plays Wine's closeted ex-boyfriend "Tee" was also one I sympathized to an extent. You have the typical closeted guy with a secret boyfriend, who tries to cut ties when people start asking questions. You can see the mental war Tee was having with himself in the beginning when it came to Wine. When he feels himself slowly dying, that's when he lets his true feelings show. It saddened me that he picked the that moment to come clean about how much he loves Wine, because at that point Wine was so far gone to really believe or care. But the writers perfectly captured the ongoing struggle of someone in the closet along with the unique situations of the plot.
- I don't really care about this part, but I know a lot of BL fans look for this kind of stuff, so I'll bring it up. Yes, there is plenty of steamy bed scenes, and yes, it's hot ?

Things that I didn't like about the movie:
- Let's talk about the writing for a moment. While I do give credit for the uniqueness of this storyline, I have to admit that it was still messy, especially towards the second half. It started to feel rushed and disjointed. So much was happening all at once with no room to breathe.
- I think the most unsatisfying thing about this movie was its ending. It wasn't necessarily a sad ending, nor was it a happy ending. It actually kindof felt...incomplete? I think the idea of creating an open ending that leaves it to the viewers imagination can sometimes work, and other times it doesn't. While we do have a satisfying result for Wine's actions, and we can understandably see what Wine is doing, it still leaves the viewers confused as to what happens to them.
- Of all the characters, I think Boy is the least developed of the main characters. I felt he wasn't fleshed out as much as the others, and from what we do see of him, you could say he was the most dangerous of Wine's love interest. He comes off as creepy and possessive. He even admits that he's always wanted to rape Wine. Excuse me, what? Honestly if Wine had told Night about that, he might have been more understanding, but Boy was nearly naked and tied up soooo...maybe not.

Overall Thoughts:
This is my first reaction to a BL movie, rather than a show, so I wasn't sure how I wanted to go about this. Shows on TV have limits to what can be shown and what they can represent, but when you have a movie meant to be on the big screen, you have more freedom on what you want to create. Here we have a Dark Erotic BL Thriller about the dangers of love.
I'll be completely honest, I was ready to say how much this movie sucked and how it plays like a bad porn but with better acting. What changed my tune was reading up on other people's reviews, and they pointed out a lot of things that I haven't really thought about in my first initial thoughts of the movie.
There's no question that the writing was messy, but I can also arguably say that it was very creative and thought provoking. Like I said earlier, you have 3 completely different interpretations of love with Wine's 3 love interest. The closeted kind of love, the compassionate kind of love, and the dominant kind of love. And I love how the most destructive depiction of love DIDN'T come from the vampire, but as a normal human man.
Fluke as I said delivered a spectacular performance as Wine, but so did the rest of the cast. The acting, plus the originality of the story, was what made this an enjoyable movie to watch. However, there is still the matter of the the disjointed second half of the movie and the unsatisfying ending. Is it a masterpiece? No? But it does have it's charm, and also delivers a lot of steamy bed scenes for those who loves watching hot guys get it on. Yes, you will have plenty of those!
In closing, I appreciate this movie more than I originally thought, and I feel like this movie has a bad rep simply because it's one of those movies where you really have to THINK about what all is going on. It's one of those movies where you have to watch more than once to really grasp it. I don't hate it as much as I thought I would, and I honestly found myself watching it more than once, so a big plus for that.

Rank: 7.5/10