The Insatiable

The Insatiable (2006): This is not a great movie but it is one of those independent films that give you much more than you expect. The initial write up made it sound like a standard vampire gore fest, but I found instead, an unusual, interesting and somewhat witty film in this over done genre. It seems that a nerdly guy working at a non-descript flange company sees a woman biting and then ripping the head off a homeless person, and leaping two stories though a glass window to escape the crime scene. The police think he is bonkers even though the area has had a number of murders by a serial killer who takes heady souvenirs after each crime. Doing research on the internet turns up a site that tells him how to kill vampires, but our hero is somewhat of a pacifist and doesn’t want to do her in. He eventually meets the guy who runs the website (Michael Biehn –of Terminator fame) who warns him his life is in danger now that the vampire knows he has seen her and he must find and kill her since she will soon come after him.
His solution to this problem is somewhat unique and provides for a lot of comic situations as well as the need for some serious moral decisions to be made. In the end, our hero’s life, which was not too excellent to begin with, starts to deteriorate rapidly but winds up with a somewhat unexpected conclusion. The movie was shot in and around Austin, TX and appears to be of relatively low budget but the writing and acting are very good and the flick comes with an excellent score. The movie is highly recommended for horror buffs and may even interest the more normal of you out there. The movie is not rated but would probably suck up an R for: ultra hot vampire chick, ultra nerdly hero, ultra strong jail cell, ultra jammed garbage disposals, ultra jammed toilets, paraplegic vampire hunter, multiple dead bunny rabbits, multiple dead headless bodies, and for the totally unexpected undead poetry recital.