Vampiress Review: "I Like Bats"

 

The Gist: A female vampire struggling with what she is makes matters worse by falling in love with the psychologist that she goes to for help who believes she's insane and not really a vampire. 

Clarification: Isabella is a single woman who gets nagged by her family over the fact that she continues to be single.  On top of that she has a nasty habit of going out at night and killing people as she's also a vampire. 

She sees a commercial for a psychologist at a mental hospital, so she goes there and gets committed once she tries to explain to him that she's a vampire.  

From there you get an odd dynamic between the two as she is admitting what she is and everything she actual does to him, but he brushes it off as paranoid psychotic delusions she's having. That is until members of the hospital staff go missing and an inmate catches her in the act.  

Female Vampire Factor:  Despite you finding out eventually that her whole family are vampires, Isabella is who the film revolves around and is the only one shown doing anything vampiric.  When it comes to her fangs you only actually see them once in the film and that's during a very odd scene where she starts hysterically laughing after a guy tries to scare her with a vampire mask. I guess she laughs so hard she loses control of them and they come out resulting in the guy dying of a heart attack upon seeing them. 

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Also in the films end it's revealed that her and the psychologist end up getting married and having a daughter who is born a vampire. 

 

Final Opinion: The concept is good; the execution is somewhat lacking.  By that I'd say that this film would be a great candidate for a remake.  As is it really doesn't know whether it wants to be a comedy or a horror and doesn't do either all too well and sadly the vampiric scenes are probably the most disappointing part of it when it should be the selling point as like I said the one weird scene is the only time you see Isabella's fangs.  With that I give it a Vampire Beauty Rating of 2 out of 5.  It's pretty hard to come by a decent telling of the "Female Vampire who falls in love with a human and wants to be normal" story but the film Lady Dracula is still the standard and this is far from that.  

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Vampiress Review: Dangerous Seductress

 

The Gist: After getting possessed with the spirit of the Queen of Darkness a victim of abuse becomes a predator who goes out at night looking for men to murder. 

Clarification: Suzie is a hot woman who has an abusive boyfriend who goes to live with her hot model sister when she gets tired of him getting drunk and beating her.  Once she gets there she finds an old weird book which she then reads causing a demon woman to offer her powers in exchange for murdering men.   From there it's up to her sister to try to release her from the spell of the Queen of Darkness which is easier said than done since Suzie likes her newfound powers which prevents her from being a victim. 

 

Female Vampire Factor: You have two.  First is the Queen of Darkness who is mainly just seen in the films beginning as she's being resurrected. 

Then you have Suzie once the Queen takes over her body. 

Final Opinion: This is a B-movie from Indonesia where the only real vampiric thing about the vampires in the film is that they do have fangs.  Otherwise, the main vampire Suzie's method of killing is stabbing people with sharp objects. Also, she doesn't actually drink the blood of her victims as it is then sucked in by the spirit of the Queen of Darkness via a mirror that she is trapped in. 

The film itself gives some "Weird Science" vibes in that the bulk of it is really about showing off how hot Suzie is.  A ton of screen time goes to just checking out her sexy outfits she would seduce men with, pretty much just making her Lisa from Weird Science if she was less helpful and super homicidal. 

I give the film a Vampire Beauty Rating of 2 out of 5.  You definitely aren't watching this film for the plot with much of it coming off more unintentionally comedic that horrific.  In fact, it feels more like it would have been better as one of those mature FMV video games that came out in that era than a standalone movie since it's that kind of production.  

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