Main cast: Valentina Cardinalli (Camille), Marsha Moreau (Mildred), Robert Bockstael (Eugene), David Hemblen (Professor Sanguine), and John Kassir (The Crypt Keeper)
Director: Laura Shepherd
Each time I am hoping that the episode I’d just watched and reviewed would be the last one of the first season, but alas, it looks like there are a still a few more to go after Fare Tonight. While I am sure Tales from the Cryptkeeper may not be a bad idea, as it somehow managed to get three seasons, but I’m starting to feel that it is a bad idea for me to even review this show. This show treats its audience like they are all dumb 10-year olds, which is exactly what the audience is supposed to be, and sadly, I’m too old and cynical to enjoy such contrived nonsense.
Anyway, let’s get this out of the way, so that once the Chinese New Year grind is over this coming Tuesday, we can all go back to our normal schedule.
Camille and Mildred, when they are not scaring off boys that try to bully them with fake vampire fangs, are big fans of horror films, especially those with bloodsucking fiends. While Mildred believes that vampires exist only in movies, Camille believes that they are real. The latter decides to show the former proof that those things do exist—just meet her at a cafê at night.
You see, strange sightings had been seen in the last few days around the All Night Bite café so it makes perfect sense for two young ladies to go there during the night to ferret out a genuine bloodsucker. What can go wrong, right? Sure, Mildred is an idiot that can mistake a hulking man in a huge trench coat and shadowed face to be Camille, for example, but I’m sure these young ladies will be fine.
Fortunately, the two ladies can take care of themselves when things go to crap central, so phew, this episode turns out to be far more entertaining than I initially expected. Sure, Camille and Mildred start out like train wrecks waiting to happen, but considering how much they turn out to be anything but that, I’m tempted to stand up and applaud.
Is this amazing good? Well, it’s easily one of the less annoying episodes in so far, so that makes it pretty good for what it is.
Sure, I’d recommend kids watching this show to graduate to the original Fright Night for a more spicy and scary affair that has a comparable premise, but hey, there are many reasons to recommend other shows over this one. The fact that this one is alright is a blessing, considering how wretched some of the other episodes had been!
