- Patrick Wai31 mei 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 was released on 30 september 2010.
Stake Land was directed by Jim Mickle.
Stake Land has a runtime of 1 u, 38 m.
Stake Land was produced by Larry Fessenden, Adam Folk, Brent Kunkle, Peter Phok, Derek Curl.
Martin was een normale puber tot het moment waarop het land ineenstortte door economische en politieke rampen. Uit de as van dat slagveld rees een vampierenbewind dat door de verlaten dorpen en steden raasde. Martins familie werd afgeslacht en nu is hij aangewezen op Mister, een ruige vampierenjager, die hem naar een veilig gebied zal brengen. Hij leert hem te jagen en te overleven. Samen ontdekken ze dat de overgebleven bevolking net zo bloeddorstig kan zijn als de vampieren. Gewapend met een kofferbak vol staken en de wil om te leven banen ze zich een weg door de steden en rekruteren waar het kan, nieuwe vampierjagers.
The key characters in Stake Land are Martin (Connor Paolo), Mister (Nick Damici), Belle (Danielle Harris).
Stake Land is rated 16.
Stake Land is a Horror, Drama, Sciencefiction film.
Stake Land has an audience rating of 6.2 out of 10.
Stake Land had a budget of US$ 650K.
Stake Land has made US$ 33.245 at the box office.