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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