A Tired Genre, But ‘Vampire Academy’ is All About the Girls 

A Tired Genre, But ‘Vampire Academy’ is All About the Girls

There have been so many vampire films and Hollywood keeps giving us more. Are we still that obsessed with vampires?

Another trend happening in Hollywood is adapting Young Adult books for the big screen. The first book in the

series was adapted for the screen. The film didn’t do so well, but the book got mostly good reviews.

So I check out this film, what seems like a tired genre. The opening of the film is two parents and three kids in a car driving and there’s a song on the radio that the girls like and ask for it to be turned up, the boy doesn’t like the song at all. Then all of a sudden a car swerves and hits them. We get a glimpse of the toppled over, mangled car and then both girls wake up in an apartment and it appear that they both had the same dream. Well this opening scene drew me in right away.

Rose (Zoey Deutch) and Lissa (Lucy Fry) ran away from their school, an academy for vampires and guardians, almost a year ago and they thought all was well, until the cat spots someone outside and it’s time to move on to the next place. Unfortunately, Rose can’t handle all of the guardians, or well one in particular, and they have to go back to the academy.

Lissa is a princess and Rose is her guardian, well a guardian in training. They ran away because they felt it wasn’t safe enough at the school anymore and almost as soon as they arrive back, it’s clear that it’s still not safe. But where are the threats coming from and why? Rose investigates while Lissa uses compulsion to gain back her popularity and get rid of the threat at the same time, because what else can it be, but stupid teenage pranks?

feel to it because they were going to this very prestigious and gorgeous old school learning their craft. The blood on the wall was also reminiscent of ‘Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets’. There’s also the fact that there are other books in the series so the ending leaves it pretty open to the rest of the story, whether there will be a ‘Vampire Academy 2′ film is unclear though.

I think my biggest disappointment of the film was when Lissa did something that seemed uncharacteristic of her character. It gave the film a weird tone at the end, which was an otherwise pretty good film.

I was even satisfied with the vampire lore they created. Until ‘The Vampire Diaries’ I wouldn’t accept any other vampire lore than what ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ created. I certainly wasn’t pleased with the ‘Twilight’ lore, but the ‘Vampire Academy’ seemed to make sense. Two types of vampires, the good and the murderers, and the guardians that were half vampire and half human. All vampires can’t possible be evil and the possibility of half vampires and half humans seems possible. Also I liked that these vampires are not immortal. There was just a sense of reality to the film’s lore, of course that is if vampires existed.

I absolutely loved Zoey in this role and she is very new to the acting world. She starred in TV shows, ‘Ringer’ and ‘The Suite Life on Deck’, guest starred on various other shows and appeared in ‘Beautiful Creatures’. She may be new to Hollywood, but acting is in her blood. Her mother is actress, Lea Thompson (‘Back to the Future’ trilogy, ‘Some Kind of Wonderful’), and her father is director, Howard Deutch (‘Pretty in Pink’, ‘Some Kind of Wonderful’).

There seem to be so few films that center around just females and this film definitely had that going for it. There were minor things that bothered me about the film, but two girls fighting there own battles is always good.

Tagged: Vampire Academy, Rose, Lissa, Lucy Fry, Zoey Deutch

A Tired Genre, But ‘Vampire Academy’ is All About the Girls

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