- Patrick Wai31 mai 2026Beautifully shot and full of grit, this feels like a mash-up of every post-apocalyptic survival movie you’ve ever seen, except instead of zombies you get feral vampires, and instead of just human scavengers you also get a crazy cult making the whole world even worse. The basic setup really is a coming-of-age story about a boy trying to survive under the mentorship of an older warrior, and that part works better than the vampire gimmick itself. What I liked most is that the movie is really more of a drama than an action film. It takes its time showing you a bleak, convincingly broken version of the end of the world, and that atmosphere is probably its strongest asset. Critics said similar things at the time, praising its characterization and eerie mood more than the monster action, which feels exactly right. It is not some masterpiece, and it definitely sits somewhere in the middle of the pack when compared with other survival movies in this lane. The story is familiar, the structure borrows from better apocalypse films, and the vampires sometimes feel like zombies wearing different makeup. Even so, it is engaging, well made, and has enough heart and grime to make it worth revisiting. That is probably why even people who were less enthusiastic still tended to admit it was at least watchable, while stronger reviews saw it as a solid, atmospheric genre hybrid rather than something revolutionary. So in the end, I liked it. It is bleak, well shot, reasonably smart, and easy to rewatch if you are in the mood for a dusty end-of-the-world movie with vampires instead of zombies. Not top tier, but definitely worthwhile.
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Stake Land a été publié sur 30 septembre 2010.
Stake Land a été réalisé par Jim Mickle.
Stake Land sa durée est de 1h 38min.
Stake Land a été réalisé par Adam Folk, Peter Phok, Larry Fessenden, Brent Kunkle, Derek Curl.
L’Amérique n'est plus qu'un chaos politique et économique depuis qu’une terrible épidémie s’y est propagée. Et pas des moindre, puisqu'il s'agit de vampirisme. C'est dans cet enfer sur terre que Martin, un adolescent, rencontre un chasseur de ces monstres aux dents pointues. Aidé de celui-ci et des rencontres qui jalonnent son périple, il se dirige vers le Canada, encore épargnée par l'épidémie. Encore faudra-t-il pouvoir échapper aux buveurs de sang et aux fanatiques religieux...
Les personnages principaux de * Stake Land * sont Martin (Connor Paolo), Mister (Nick Damici), Belle (Danielle Harris).
Stake Land est classé « 16 ».
Stake Land est un film de l{genres}.
Stake Land a obtenu une note de 6.2 /10 de la part du public.
Stake Land disposait d'un budget de 650 k $US.
Stake Land a rapporté 33 245 $US au box-office.