Vampiress TV Review: Night Gallery

"Death on a Barge" 

Season 3

Episode 12

Night Gallery is a short story anthology series produced by Rod Serling of The Twilight Zone fame.   Best described as a horror/supernatural version of the twilight zone it aired for three seasons from 1970 to 1973.  

Out of the three seasons of the show only the first didn't have at least one episode that dealt with the subject of vampires but only this season three episode dealt specifically with female vampires.  If I were to have any complaint about this episode it's the fact that this story is well below the standard of anything that would have aired on the twilight zone.  The saving grace is the visuals for the female vampire are wonderful. 


The female vampire in this particular episode is played by Leslie Anne Warren who is the character Hyasen.   Hyasen lives on a barge in a riverbank just outside a city and a guy named Ron notices her and develops a hardcore crush on her which makes sense considering every time we see him watching her she's basically seductively posing. 

Problem is Ron has a girlfriend.  Well not exactly a problem for him as he ignores her and treats her like dirt so telling her he doesn't want her around because he wants hot boat girl that he has had no contact without outside of talking to her on her boat from shore is nothing for him.  Ron's girlfriend Phillis instead of looking for someone who would treat her better she instead researches Hyason in hopes of finding dirt on her which she does learning that she is behind multiple disappearances in the area. Not only that but she sneaks on the barge where she learns that Hyason is indeed a vampire.  Hyason catches her spying and attacks her but Phylis escapes. 

Phylis gives Ron the info which he ignores and goes to meet Hyason who thanks to the water succeeding can get off the boat.  Ron tells Hyason he knows she's a vampire and is not exactly on board with the whole having his blood sucked game but she tries anway and he takes off and instead ends up killing his friend who followed him. 

The episode ends with Ron heading back to the barge with the intent to kill Hyason which she intends on letting him do as long as he tells her he loves her while he does it but when he see's her laying there he gets all gaga for her and can't do it.

He then decides to have makeout session with her instead but before she can bite him her father shows up, takes the stake that Ron brought and stakes his own daughter ending her. 

  

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Vampiress After Dark Review: Lesbian Vampire Hospital remake (RCTD-688)

The Gist:  After a hospitalized woman gets a blood transfusions with vampire blood, she wreaks havoc in the hospital sucking blood and spreading vampirism.

Clarification:  This is an almost shot for shot remake of the 2015 film of the same name.  The only real difference being a lot of the filler portions of the film explaining the plot are gone and there are zero men in the movie, so no vampire nurse gets revenge on sexual harassing doctor scene and no more female vampire hunter biting her male partner after him not realizing she had been turned scene.   The latter being a real loss to the film.

Female Vampire Factor: The Film stars Hikaru Miyanishi, Nozomi Arimura, Sakura Tsuji, and Suzu Monami. 

When I say it's a shot for shot remake I mean I'm just going to cut and paste from the original description with a screen shot from the original on the left and its remake counterpart on the right,  it's that close.   

Scene 1: After discovering she is now a vampire, the patient masturbates in bed. 

Scene 2: Vampire patient attacks and turns a nurse. 

Scene 3: The vampire patient learns it was the doctor who turned her. 

Scene 4: The hospital vampires attack a nun who is there to hunt them.

Scene 5:  Having fed on everyone in the hospital the vampires celebrate. 

Final Opinion: As you can see, the parts they decided to remake they did pretty well and decently accurate.  The issue is the parts they left out were things that without some of those scenes it makes the film seem lacking.  If you've never seen the first film, then you won't notice.  If you have then you'll want those scenes back, but it won't ruin the entertainment factor.  Since it is not as good as the first in my opinion but still not bad, I'll give it a Vampire Beauty Rating of 4 out of 5.  My advice.  Watch both instead of one or the other with this as a companion piece to the original and not a replacement. 

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