If you have been wondering when the run of vampire movies aimed at Twilight fans would end, here's a compelling reason why it should be now.
Vampire Academy begins well enough mixing a sassy, fun blend of genres as teen high school movies like Easy A and Mean Girls, also directed by Waters, meet the vampire genre.
But it's not long before the promising mix of horror, action and humour, slips into the ridiculous, as the tone shifts from serious to mocking, sassy to saccharine, and back again. Basically, this teen flick set in a Potter-esque academy for vampires is all over the place and it's hard to know what's intentionally funny and what isn't. It's one of those films that is so bad, it's actually fun to watch.
Lucy Fry stars as Lissa Dragomir, a young vampire princess from the peaceful and mortal vampire race the Moroi. She's protected from the bloodthirsty and immortal Strigoi vampires by her guardian, Rose (Deutch), a Dhampire vampire who is half human, half vampire.
It's cheesy, derivative and filled with simply drawn characters, although tellingly Rose is still used heavily as the narrator, and without this device we'd have little idea what's going on. It also allows for some of the better moments, as she introduces us to the obligatory cafeteria scene and the fang gangs around school.
