The Lair - The Complete First Season

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It did keep you on the edge. I didn't intend to watch it so quickly but was very curious where things were headed and couldn't resist watching the next installment right after watching the last. Seemed a bit low budget but was entertaining.

Loved this series in spite of its shortcomings. Each season of this title gets better and better. There were so many twists and turns that kept me in suspense throughout. Peter Sickles and David Moretti are good in their respective roles but Dylan Vox as the conniving vampire steals the show, especially in Season III. All the actors are good looking, especially the two leads. A great soundtrack that enhances the thrills but which never overpowers the actors. Of course, nothing is really believable but that doesn’t detract from the thrills. Vampires have come a long way since Bela Lugosi. Extremely entertaining!

Watching "The Lair", you feel almost like you're diving into a porno movie that never quite gets you there. There's ample male nudity and a lot of simulated sex among the vampires--how do they manage all that business with those fangs always in the way, anyhow?--but it seems a little silly the way it's presented. Sure, the vampire action takes place in a sex club but really, these guys are at it all over the place, all the time. They can barely be bothered to take a disco nap and when they do, they're still in a naked pile, rather than the standard coffin used by their leader and most other in-the-know vampires. Well, it beats waiting tables, that's for sure. The disc, itself, arrived in excellent condition and in a timely manner. Though obviously produced on a very limited budget, the picture is clear and crisp, and the sound isn't bad, although a few times the boom mikes seemed to be almost out of reach of the actors saying their lines. The sets look like they're refurbished from the old "Superman" TV series of the 50's but that's the least of "The Lair"s problems. The plot of the series involves the brutal attacks on a growing number of young men in some island town off the American coast (it's season one so I don't know if it's the east or west coast). Newspaper reporter Thom, played by David Moretti, meets with an informant who works at the local sex club (Brian Nolan) in order to try and link the club to the recent string of murders. The reporter's jealous boyfriend (Jesse Cutlip) spies the pair talking and ends up going to the sex club to warn the guy off. Of course, he gets more than he bargained for and the race is on to find out who or what is responsible and put a stop to it before there are more victims. During the course of the 6 episode run of Season One, we meet Head Vampire, Damian (Peter Stickles), his sass-mouth second-in-command Colin (Dylan Vox), Sheriff Trout (Colton Ford), Thom's friend and co-worker, Laura (Beverly Lynne), and a whole slew of comely, mostly naked vampires and potential victims. The series is pretty much a vampire soap opera as each episode ends with a cliffhanger, but the story is never so demanding that plot and character development override the necessity of getting the characters out of their duds as quickly and as often as possible. Which is, I think, the whole point, and I certainly won't take issue with that. The acting in "The Lair" ranges from okay to unimpressive to downright god-awful. Peter Stickles, in the role of the Dorian Grey-like head vampire doesn't really do it for me. As an actor, he doesn't much convey the sinister charm or charisma the role calls for; he seems a little too lightweight to play such an imposing figure. Dylan Vox isn't a great actor, either, but at least he brings a certain amount of dark humor to his plottings and machinations as he tries to upgrade his position in the vampire coven. David Moretti, as newsman Thom, gives one of the better performances in the series, but his character is so dumb that it's finally hard to care much about him. And whose idea was it to stick that wig on him in the flashback scene with Stickles? That scene with the wig was the one truly scary moment in this entire first season. Beverly Lynne, as another reporter, and the abused girlfriend of a hunky lowlife, gives a perfectly acceptable performance, yet I found this disturbing, real-world sideplot to be a distraction that threw off the semi-campy rhythm of the series. By far, my favorite character is Sheriff Trout, and Colton Ford imbues him with a grumpy, craggy, can-do charm that reminded me a little of Sheriff Harry S. Truman in "Twin Peaks". Whenever Ford is onscreen the series really comes alive, and even if he's not likely to win any acting awards, he has a genuine appeal that should have translated into a more substantial mainstream career (which, one assumes, was largely stymied by Ford's former career in hardcore porn). "The Lair" was written and directed by Fred Olen Ray, and, if for nothing else, I have to give him credit for being able to get this produced and aired for three seasons on Here! TV. As far as TV series go, it's fairly insubstantial, but there have been much worse (and there will be again) plus it has enough entertainment value to have prompted me to order the second season from amazon.

Trying to be a soft porn soap opera I guess, save your money

The acting was not so bad as to be distracting and reasonable story.

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