Tuesday, June 16, 2026

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. 


(SPOILER ALERT)

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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