Red Wine in the Dark Night (2015)

Obsession, Betrayal, and doing the unthinkable for love.

Okay. This movie was AWESOME! I absolutely LOVED it!! I love Fluke, (especially in UWMA) and his character in this move was superb! A stark contrast from his previous innocent, baby angel personalities from his other series. Like, for real. You’ll barely recognize him as the same person. He looks the same (adorable!), but his actions in this series will give you a WHOLE NEW outlook on him! Wine (Fluke) meets Nam (Later named Night by Wine due to the fact Nam has amnesia) in an abandoned building after Wine is sent there as a prank by his (asshole) “boyfriend”. Night needs blood to survive. How will Wine obtain this blood for the boy he has been waiting for his entire life? This is a story about a boy (Wine) who is tormented and taken advantage of by the people who claim to love him, and the vampire he meets who falls in love with him, and the lengths Wine will go to to ensure the survival of not only the life of his true love, but the survival of their relationship, as well. It’s dark. Not a light and fluffy story! Oh. And the majority of the cast spends a LOT of the movie in their tighty-whities... So there’s that too! Because I have no shame in saying, I love my BL’s with sex, too! I would DEFINITELY recommend this movie!

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Most people rate this badly because they don't understand it

I'm writing this review purely because I feel its been given the same injustice that The Blue Hour has, and ironically enough, for the exact same plot twist.
Night was never real. He was a figment of Wine's imagination created for him to deal with not being loved the way he wanted to be. He created the perfect boyfriend in his mind and, huzzah, can also use him as an excuse to torture his ex-boyfriend and get P'Boy out of the picture.
Night only comes into existence the night that Wine is left alone in the abandoned building with the realization that Tee, the boy he was in love with, had tricked him and was probably off making fun of him with his mates.
When he slit his wrists to feed Night, and Night found him on the floor passed out, this was actually a suicide attempt.
The final scene is a perfect wrap up of the movie if you view Night as an imaginary character. It makes no sense for him to be real and to magically appear in a jail cell with him.
Most people assume that he's just imagining Night in the final scene, but that he's real in all the others. Which is fair; each to their own.
The movie. however, makes much more sense and is a better watch if you treat Night as a catalyst for symbolism and a reflection of Wine's emotional turmoil.

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I really liked this movie and it's definitely one of my favourites. The acting was on point, the scenes were shot well and the love scenes were real and intense. There is a fair amount of violence and it does get pretty dark, so if that isn't your thing, I wouldn't recommend the watch. It seems a lot of people get uncomfortable with the lack of "closure" at the end. To me, the movie's ending made sense and I don't think a movie is ruined because you're made to think a how the story would continue instead of only thinking about how good what you already saw was. Think Twilight, but gay and darker.

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Interesting~

So at first I wasn't going to watch it because it seems that almost everyone didn't like it. But I still wanted to give it a try, and wow... I don't get the negative comments about it..?

Some people said it contained too much sex scenes and well, it's rated 18+ so you should've known it before starting, I guess. Also, some said the storyline is not clear or illogical. I think it was so clear and I understood everything, except the last part, which they left it like that on purpose. But isn't it easy to think that Night was just in Wine's imagination, and Wine probably committed suicide in the prison?

The acting was so good, especially Wine (Fluke). He portrayed the character so well. Some people are saying his character wasn't good and he didn't actually like Night, but I think it's obvious that he is mentally not ok. Also, he wanted to get blood for Night, and that's why he acted like he still loved the other two guys.

I don't think it deserves the hate it gets, people are just too critical and see what they want to see...

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FLUKE!!! WHY!!!

Things that I like about the movie:
- I'll be completely honest here; I only watched this movie because of Fluke. Everyone by now should know how much of an OhmFluke stan I am, so I was excited to see one of Fluke's earlier roles. That being said...DAMN, FLUKE!!!! Okay, this is a role I'd never expected from Fluke Natouch, especially since my first time seeing him was when he played "Pharm" in UWMA. His role as "Wine" in this movie is the complete opposite of Pharm. Where Pharm was the quiet, shy little virgin, Wine is a eager, sex-crazed, love-struck psychopath. I don't think I will ever look at Pharm the same way again, and the fact that Fluke was only 19 YEARS OLD when he did this movie is mindblowing. But that's not a bad thing. The fact that he was able to play such a role in his earlier years, and manage to play a softer role in his current years, speaks high volumes for his acting chops. Fluke is such a strong diverse actor able to pull off any role he's given.
- I've talked about the actor himself, now let's talk about his character in the movie. Wine is a psychopath, there's no two ways around it. That being said, you also see in the beginning that he was trying to find other ways to help quench Night's unique diet, and he was running out of options fast. In Wine's eyes, he not only found a magical, tortured creature of the night, but he also FINALLY found someone who seemed to truly love him for HIM. Not just loving him in private, and not just to dominate him. Even in public, he sees that Night proudly claims Wine as his, and that only deepens how much Wine doesn't want to let him go. Wine is the perfect example of the great lengths even the most sanest of people will go to for love, and how love can be blind. Even though he slowly loses himself to madness, I can't help but feel sympathy for him because I believe if there was any other way to feed Night's appetite for human blood, he would, but using his own blood isn't a permanent solution, no animal blood can be a substitution, and giving Night up or letting him die wasn't an option. Even though we see Wine going mad, we still see that he compassion for others when he agrees to let Tee go rather than let him die.
- I gave credits to our leading star, so let me go over the other casts. All in all, the main cast of this movie were all excellent. Wine has 3 main love interest, each with their own unique perception of love, and each actor were able to perfectly capture those perceptions.
- Of the 3 love interest, my top favorite has to go to Steven Fuhrer, who plays the vampire "Night" in the movie. Night was honestly the least destructive out of the three, which is surprising given that he was the one drinking human's blood. Having amnesia and having Wine be the first person he sees at his weakest, naturally he clings to Wine. He sees the length Wine will go to make sure Night is taken care of which includes slicing his finger or wrists, and it honestly pains him. He has the most compassion for Wine and hates to see him hurt himself for Night's sake, which says a lot about his character. Even towards the end when he sees how evil Wine was becoming on his behalf, he still couldn't find it in him to berate Wine. He instead puts the blame on himself and takes himself out of the equation, which honestly broke my heart to see.
- Nontapat, who plays Wine's closeted ex-boyfriend "Tee" was also one I sympathized to an extent. You have the typical closeted guy with a secret boyfriend, who tries to cut ties when people start asking questions. You can see the mental war Tee was having with himself in the beginning when it came to Wine. When he feels himself slowly dying, that's when he lets his true feelings show. It saddened me that he picked the that moment to come clean about how much he loves Wine, because at that point Wine was so far gone to really believe or care. But the writers perfectly captured the ongoing struggle of someone in the closet along with the unique situations of the plot.
- I don't really care about this part, but I know a lot of BL fans look for this kind of stuff, so I'll bring it up. Yes, there is plenty of steamy bed scenes, and yes, it's hot ?

Things that I didn't like about the movie:
- Let's talk about the writing for a moment. While I do give credit for the uniqueness of this storyline, I have to admit that it was still messy, especially towards the second half. It started to feel rushed and disjointed. So much was happening all at once with no room to breathe.
- I think the most unsatisfying thing about this movie was its ending. It wasn't necessarily a sad ending, nor was it a happy ending. It actually kindof felt...incomplete? I think the idea of creating an open ending that leaves it to the viewers imagination can sometimes work, and other times it doesn't. While we do have a satisfying result for Wine's actions, and we can understandably see what Wine is doing, it still leaves the viewers confused as to what happens to them.
- Of all the characters, I think Boy is the least developed of the main characters. I felt he wasn't fleshed out as much as the others, and from what we do see of him, you could say he was the most dangerous of Wine's love interest. He comes off as creepy and possessive. He even admits that he's always wanted to rape Wine. Excuse me, what? Honestly if Wine had told Night about that, he might have been more understanding, but Boy was nearly naked and tied up soooo...maybe not.

Overall Thoughts:
This is my first reaction to a BL movie, rather than a show, so I wasn't sure how I wanted to go about this. Shows on TV have limits to what can be shown and what they can represent, but when you have a movie meant to be on the big screen, you have more freedom on what you want to create. Here we have a Dark Erotic BL Thriller about the dangers of love.
I'll be completely honest, I was ready to say how much this movie sucked and how it plays like a bad porn but with better acting. What changed my tune was reading up on other people's reviews, and they pointed out a lot of things that I haven't really thought about in my first initial thoughts of the movie.
There's no question that the writing was messy, but I can also arguably say that it was very creative and thought provoking. Like I said earlier, you have 3 completely different interpretations of love with Wine's 3 love interest. The closeted kind of love, the compassionate kind of love, and the dominant kind of love. And I love how the most destructive depiction of love DIDN'T come from the vampire, but as a normal human man.
Fluke as I said delivered a spectacular performance as Wine, but so did the rest of the cast. The acting, plus the originality of the story, was what made this an enjoyable movie to watch. However, there is still the matter of the the disjointed second half of the movie and the unsatisfying ending. Is it a masterpiece? No? But it does have it's charm, and also delivers a lot of steamy bed scenes for those who loves watching hot guys get it on. Yes, you will have plenty of those!
In closing, I appreciate this movie more than I originally thought, and I feel like this movie has a bad rep simply because it's one of those movies where you really have to THINK about what all is going on. It's one of those movies where you have to watch more than once to really grasp it. I don't hate it as much as I thought I would, and I honestly found myself watching it more than once, so a big plus for that.

Rank: 7.5/10

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Deserves a FAR Better Rating. Flips the cliches.

This movie is a perfect example why I can't trust the ratings on MDL. I've been extremely disappointed by numerous highly rated shows. But here's a super low rated movie that was better than all of them put together, if you like occasional dark stories. (TW: there is some very dark material, but probably not what you're expecting.)

I can see people getting put off by the awkward gratuitous sex scene at the beginning. But it isn't graphic and doesn't last that long. Honestly, if you took all the sex scenes out I would give this a 9.5. Normally I like a few but these kind of felt out of place and threw off the film's pacing.

This isn't your cliche vampire story. I've never seen a setup and portrayal like this. The aspects of this vampire feel grounded in reality, unfolding how you might without anything outlandishly supernatural. The vampire is very much innocent and almost childlike. He's easily the most moral character. Meanwhile the humans are rife with immorality. I wouldn't call this a Romance, it's way more Psychological. There's definitely some yandere tones in here, and I'm here for it because it's fascinating. (another reminder, it gets dark)

It's rare for me to like media where I can't empathize with the main character. But I understand his motivations, and I just don't see stories like this with a flipped script, especially in the vampire genre, and it's LGBTQ to boot.

The production value is high, the acting is convincing, the story is captivating, the characters are compelling but dark. There's not that many sex scenes and they're less than 30 seconds. The movie is worth it.

you can watch it on myreadingmanga.info. slightly higher quality than youtube.

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WHAT DID I JUST WATCH? lolol

What in the low budget porn Twilight is this?? It was a never ending cringe fest filled with horrible acting, god awful writing, and some abysmal plot lolol

The worst BL...and series in general.....I've ever seen. It's SO bad that it's kinda funny.

PLOT: The movie starts with Wine's creepy ass smile (you'll see it every 10min or so lolol) as he look obsessively over his "straight" boyfriend Tee. They have sex immediately...and 10 seconds later Tee starts the "it was just sex, I'm not gay" speech. Wine gets into a deep but short-lasting depression. Tee's best friends are a bunch of jocks who decide to humiliate Wine even further by pulling a prank on him. They said Tee regretted his decision to break up and was waiting for him in this creepy abandoned building (oooh come on!!!).

Of course the poor soul waited the entire day and Tee never showed up. He was too busy "having fun" with his friends....ignoring the fact that he is indeed gay. But, when Wine finally decides to give up on waiting after hours, he hears an eerie cry for help. Basically everything in this movie is an obvious DON'T DO IT type of situation......but guess what? They all fucking do it lololol

Wine finds this weird looking dude that is a mix of a Wish version of Edward with a splash of 20s Dracula with the widow's peak. Yeah.....you read it right. And of course the second thing Wine does is let this stranger suck his blood and they fall in love. Like, who wouldn't? lolol And it all goes downhill from there. All the way down....

CHACARTER / ACTING:

- Wine (Fluke) is a basically an obsessed psychotic twink throughout the whole movie. That's his gig. And serving a creepy smile for no good reason. His character is based on his relationship with 3 guys and how far is he willing to go for the sake of "love" (which only lasts a few moments with him lol)

- Night: Our weird vamp that, in the end proves himself to be very ungrateful lol

All the actors were pretty bad in this, not gonna lie. Not even one redeemable thing about this whole movie. If you wanna watch just for the weirdness...have at it. But it is pretty bad lol

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A bit confusing but not bad

I really took a shot in the dark watching this simply because of the fact that it's a vampire movie and I can't say I'm all that disappointed.

I think this movie gave Fluke the chance to act as something other than the sweet, innocent boy we know in UWMA and I think that really made the movie for me. I liked this take on the vampire trope especially the direction it went in for said vampire's lover. I'm not usually a fan of thrillers but the thriller aspects were palatable for me even as someone who generally finds that kind of thing boring. The ending was not unforeseeable and I kind of wish they had done something different but it didn't really change how much I enjoyed Wine's story and character arc.

Over all I can't really see myself rewatching this movie despite my positive feelings towards it. I'd recommend it to any vampire enthusiast but be warned that (like with many vampire shows/movies and thrillers) there may be some things triggering for some viewers so proceed with caution.

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difficult to watch but Fluke delivers the performance of his lifetime!

I think we can all agree that this film is unsettling (to watch) and messed up in so many ways.
Whether you will like it or not, depends on your taste.

It is a vampire story that avoids all the clichees and has an interesting ending.

What I really would like to highlight is Fluke's performance. In many ways, he reminded me of Anthony Perkins in Psycho. Both have seemingly an innocent aura to them, but are deranged and killers underneath. It's just that Wine in this film is looking for love and will do anything - and I mean ANYTHING - to keep this love.

Fluke, who mainly played cute, sweet and innocent characters so far, takes his image, plays with it and in the end completely destroys it. His acting is FANTASTIC to the point that it makes you uncomfortable, in the best way. And to imagine how young he was in this one, he is a really talented actor!

Because of this and some interesting ideas, I give this film a 6/10. I had to switch it off at some point because I really would like to keep Fluke in my imagination as sweet and innocent. Also, it is not really well filmed and by that, I mean the lighting and some really awkward and uncomfortable sex scenes (but I guess, that was intended).

(I posted this review on IMDb, too, so no, it is not copied.)

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WARNING: This may destroy Pharm/Bank's image but this will prove Fluke's acting range

I had put off watching this movie for a long time because of the odd premise and the reviews I read. But I really missed Fluke's acting and this one was conveniently on Netflix, so I went for me.

Oh boy.

While watching it, I found it intriguing (and disturbing), but as the ending credits roll, I looked back and found it hard to pinpoint the key message of the film.

What did I just watch?

What was the movie trying to convey? It left me scratching my head.

Fluke's acting was impeccable. As the OST song (sorta) went, "Even if it's wrong, I'll still watch it for you".

A a character, Wine was a bag of contradictions. The opening scene set a trap for viewers by painting Wine as a victim - being told by his loved one, right after s*x, that he had never loved Wine and that he was just using Wine for his ass. And that coloured my vision of Wine's actions. Even though what Wine subsequently did was clearly wrong, I couldn't put it against him. To my horror, I was screaming for Wine not to release Tee because his trust will surely be betrayed again.

But Wine is not a victim. Even in the case of Boy, Wine was the one who approached Boy. They were willing buyer and seller (gosh, this film!!) of s*x and benefits.

What about Night? Did he really love Wine? Or was it also a for-benefits type of relationship?

Towards the end of the movie, I had the idea that perhaps Night isn't real. Perhaps he was just a fragment of Wine's imagination. Because he sorely wanted to find someone who loves him and will never leave him, crushed by the prank Tee pulled on him in the deserted building, Wine just imagined a person who's survival relied entirely on him. The stakes are high - perfect to exhibit mutual love and commitment. Also perfect for revenge against those who did him wrong. We also see Night wearing the same clothes as Wine. Is he an alter-ego, the hidden, ruthless side of Wine? Is that why he has to be hidden in the dark and cannot go under the sun? This would also explain the illogical final scene - the guitar and Night appearing in the cell out of the blue.

But then I recall that even outside of Wine's memories, there was someone who saw Night (the student at the phone booth). So perhaps that split personality theory doesn't stand either.

I'm really confused, but not motivated to think deeper into the movie.

The highlight of the film is definitely Fluke's acting. Although this was made several years back in the early years of Fluke's acting career, he did a very good job in his portrayal of this multi-layered character. Gentle and passionate towards Night, guilty yet cruel towards Tee, sly and manipulative towards Boy - he was all of that, and more. A psychopath? I shudder.

(Bonus is the kissing scenes. One could really feel the heat of their desire from through the screen. Very professional!)

The last Fluke work I watched was My Bromance, and I was shocked by what I saw in this film. What versatility!

Perhaps the theme of the film is best summarised in the lyric of the OST:
"Please know that someone can do everything just for you. Because I love you with all my heart, nothing can stop me. Even if it's wrong, I'll still do it for you."

It's a romantic idea to think that one can do anything and everything for their loved ones. But what if that "everything" is wrong? And what defines what is wrong?

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