Critic Reviews

• G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle

  There's no camp in this vamp; the lady, and the film, is a tramp.

• Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times

  That the acting is stilted and that the filmmakers and especially Pla take themselves so seriously serves to make Eternal deliriously silly camp fare.

• James Berardinelli, ReelViews

  I wouldn't recommend this for theatrical viewing, but as late night cable fare, it's an acceptable way for an insomniac to pass two hours.

• David Edelstein, Slate

  Perfect for watching on video on a cool Cape Cod night, but maybe not so arousing in an arthouse for 10 bucks and change.

• Lou Lumenick, New York Post

  Quite silly and not especially scary.

• Jack Mathews, New York Daily News

  It's impossible to overstate the silliness of all this, but it would still be a decent Halloween trick -- if it were Halloween.

• David Noh, Film Journal International

  You watch this brain-dead film in a similar state yourself, until its culmination at--where else?--the cheesiest of masked balls.

• Laura Kelly, South Florida Sun-Sentinel

  But for all its exposed skin, the film's pulse is hard to find.

• Luke Y. Thompson, New Times

  Neron and Pla look like porn stars and have about the same level of acting ability.

• Rory L. Aronsky, Film Threat

  ...this whole production might as well just be a music video featuring everything Elizabeth from lusting for blood to bathing in it and the process involved.

• Mark R. Leeper, rec.arts.movies.reviews

  ETERNAL is a sexy and stylish horror thriller from Canada that unfortunately seems to be re-treading all-too-familiar territory. It gets points for its lavish production design, but very little for originality or real horror.

• Andy Klein, Los Angeles CityBeat

  Eternal is only occasionally completely stupid...but it's never very bright either.

• Frank Swietek, One Guy's Opinion

  This oddball mixture of bloodsucking horror and soft-core porn is both objectively terrible and perversely fascinating.

• John A. Nesbit, Old School Reviews

  the photography only creates a sense of suspense that something worth seeing may eventually appear

• , E! Online

  It was cooler when it was called Basic Instinct.

• Mark Olsen, L.A. Weekly

  Conrad Pla turns in a performance of such staggering ineptitude that it almost (key word: almost) reaches a so-bad-it's-good, Plan 9 From Outer Space brilliance.

• Ron Wilkinson, Monsters and Critics

  A desperate cop is in over his head under the spell of a reincarnated lesbian vampire with great hair.

• Karina Montgomery, Cinerina

  Just by being true to the legend, as if Erszebet had truly lived, Eternal is an interesting work, an erotic thriller with a supernatural bent.

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