In short, "Kindred: The Embraced" SHOULD have been called "Kindred: The Embarrassment" as any fan of the White Wolf game it was based on, "Vampire: The Masquerade" will know.
The Clans were all wrong. The Brujah were more like the Giovanni Clan from the game. In the game Brujah were idealists and street rabble, toughened fighters and anarchists, not sleek Mafia-clones. Ironically that is closer to what he Ventrue were, instead of this spineless Prince they gave us in the movie (no matter HOW suave and debonair he looked).
I don't even want to THINK about how they ruined the Nosferatu. In the game, these creatures were SO deformed and hideous that to look upon the worst of them could drive one insane... or as legends had it, even kill !
The gothic-punk world was all wrong (instead Spelling gave us some wannabe Godfatheresque joke). Clan Gangrel was represented by one confusing little character in leather ? The Gangrel were BEASTS ! Literal monsters with claws and animal features ! They were proud and independent and above all SAVAGE !
I could go on, but I'm too nauseated by this travesty of art to do so. In short, Spelling took one of the best vampire stories ever written, which had everything, and watered it down literally to "90210 Pseudo-Goth". Were there even any fangs ? Did you see fangs ? Claws ?
*sigh*
Mark Rein (dot) Hagen, the creator of "Vampire: The Masquerade" either sold out, or worse, lost artistic control of his creation when he signed it over to Spelling.
This show is the very definition of travesty.

Just a quick word, not about a film but about a TV series, which I hope qualifies. As far as I'm concerned, most vampire movies show how in the end, the vampire always looses. He's perpetually the nasty.
In the series "KINDRED" this infallible law does not apply, simply because the vampires live among themselves. One person, a police officer, knows the truth and finding it out is enough of a shock so he prefers to rely on the "PRINCE" of the "CLANS" to keep the law amongst the undead.
What is fascinating about this series is that the glamour and aesthetic aspects really come out in such a way that almost any normal person seeing this would immediately want to become a vampire. No strange faces like in Buffy, no quick executions turning the nasty into dust. When a vampire steps out of line, he is eliminated by his own kind, generally by beheading.
They often need to drink blood to keep alive but they do it in such a discrete way that no-one actually gets hurt. The real story is about clans "Mafia style" and no-one outside their own kind interferes.
The series only ran for eight episodes for unfortunately the main star (MARK FRANKEL) died in a road accident and plus the fact that it didn't do too well in the ratings,(AARON SPELLING) decide to terminate the series in order to start "CHARMED". Another good show though not quite up to the Kindred standards. But that's another story.
To end this little piece, I just want to add that Kindred could almost be true, as one of the characters really existed. She is "LILLIE LANGTRY" a famous 19th century socialite who's closest friends were Oscar Wild and Edward VII.
I highly recommend this mini series if you can get hold of it somewhere, do so it's well worth it.

This was by far the best series ever put on TV in the Vampire genre. I have always been a huge fan of Vampire the Masquerade and this put the story in motion. It's too bad that Mark Frankel died, he was wonderful as Julian Luna. I am also sad that the series didn't stay "on air". I would love to see someone keep going with it, they had a great cast. With a little more time I think more of the FOX viewers would have got hooked.