Stake Land
After a plague turns America into a realm of vampires, a vampire hunter known only as 'Mister' takes an orphaned young man under his wing to battle for survival in their quest for a safe haven.
11 August 1983, Brooklyn, New York, USA
December 29, 2011
Stake Land has strong characters, a lucid script, plenty of action, and something more substantial to make it better-than-average.
June 16, 2011
Other undead movies needlessly foreground the action. "Stake Land'' has its fight scenes, but here they're secondary.
April 28, 2011
Mickle has talent, and the end credits include a character known as "French Canadian Cannibal," which is worth a half-star right there.
December 15, 2011
May be the best blunt-force-trauma, tear-your-throat-out vicious vampire film since Near Dark.
February 12, 2016
This is no gallows comedy, it's a survival drama in the mode of The Walking Dead. It has more in common with The Road or George Romero's late Dead films than most vampire films...
September 12, 2011
Mickle's observation of a devastated working-class America is so sharp that the horror elements, though effectively handled, come to feel like an afterthought.
June 15, 2011
Jeff Grace's melancholy music underscores the atmosphere of bleak dystopian despair, leavened by flashes of humour and hope.
April 21, 2013
Stake Land is intelligently rendered horror. It's a cut above more recent efforts, being an accomplished and thoughtful piece of work and an overall, enjoyable watch.
August 16, 2011
More admirable than fulfilling, expelling more effort with atmosphere than story, wasting time with stares when legitimate tension is desperately needed.
April 28, 2011
"Stake Land" bursts with action, ideas and interesting characters.
September 16, 2011
it's as dark as Harry Potter 19 might have been, and keener on exploring deeper themes than having an all-slaying, all-spurting, all-squirting orgy of fangbanging fun.
April 28, 2011
Shows that a savvy mixture of characterization, atmosphere and gore-eographed suspense can make even the most familiar fright tropes feel vaguely organic again.
