Vampiress Review: "Dracula's Fiancee"

The Gist: Two hunters searching for Dracula encounter other monsters and a convent of nuns guarding them as the vampire count is collecting women to be his bride.

Female Vampire Factor:  There is only one female vampire in this film.  A red head woman who pretty much looks like every vampiress in a Jean Rollins film.

 Her role is basically to randomly exist and for T&A purposes as she's not very important to the plot.  Basically as the film gets uninteresting a scene will randomly pop up with her doing something kind of lesbianish. For example you have a scene where she bites an injured ogress.

Then one where she sucks the blood of a nun with her bare butt exposed.

and finally one where she has a blood drinking makout session with a werewolf.

Final Opinion:  If you've seen a Jean Rollins film before then you pretty much know what to expect as his vampire films are pretty much the same.  If I were going to suggest one to watch this would probably not be it though so I'll give it a Vampire Beauty Rating of 3 out of 5. Gratuitous sexy vampire stuff is in the film but nowhere near the level as many of his past films.

Vampiress XXX Review: "Suce Moi Vampire"

The Gist: A man snooping around an old castle accidentally releases a brood of female vampires.

Clarification:  This film actually needs one badly so I went ahead and did the leg work.  This is a Jean Rollins film but done so under the alias "Michel Gentil".  As the story goes the film "Lips of Blood" (which I gave a Vampire Beauty Rating of 5 out of 5 BTW) flopped in the french box offices which left Rollins in debt.  In order to make up for it this film was made using scenes from Lips combined with some hardcore sex scenes shot independently starring some of the actors from that movie.  That means what you're getting is basically "Lips of Blood: The Hardcore porn".  The story itself has only been altered slightly as the "guy looking for a woman from his childhood storyline" has been dropped in favor of just "guy gets haunted by vampires after letting them free".   Sadly there is no clear version of this film as Rollins is not particularly proud of it and for decades even refused to admit he made it.

Selling Point: Same as Lips (a bunch of half naked female vampires)but this time the vampires do a lot more than just pose half naked (not that that was a bad thing)

Also the edition of lots of sex

Female Vampire Factor: All the good biting scenes from Lips are still there in tact including the twins scene dressed as nurses.

 There are two additional scenes specifically shot for the film.  One includes the blonde vampire (the non twin who is naked throughout Lips IE top left in the "selling point" photo) showing up in the films protagonists bedroom, having sex with him and then biting him.

and then the films finale in which the protagonist/narrator is explaining what happened to the vampires all while getting a blow job from one.  This is where the film gets it's title "Suce-Moi Vampire" or in English "Suck Me Vampire".

So basically the twist is the film is being narrated by a guy who is being given a blow job the entire time he's talking from a vampire.  Despite the fact that this is a frankenstein made movie basically just put together in an editing room the movie that it's being made from is full of sexy female vampires and this film pretty much puts the spotlight on them so I give this film a Vampire Beauty Rating of 5 out of 5.

Vampiress Review: Two Orphan Vampires

The Gist: Two blind girls who reside in an orphanage become blood thirsty vampires after dark.

Clarification:  If you're familiar with Rollins work then you know that his idea of what a vampire is tends to be different than what legend describes them as.   In this case you've got two vampire girls living in an orphanage which is run by nuns (there goes the whole "fear of the cross" gimmick) who can walk into the sun with the only ill effects being that they just can't see in it.  Also they can be killed like any other person could, they just somehow come back (which is never really explained but since the film is partly first person storytelling from the girls point of view the holes in logic are usually described by film experts as Rollins showcasing the girls lack of memory of the details of their previous lives.

Selling Point: In the DVD extra features the main actresses state they'd never do another nude scene again after this film so I guess that kind of makes it a collectors item.  Plus it's vampire school girls.

Female Vampire Factor:  As you might have guessed via the "clarification" this movie isn't your usual Jean Rollins "Show me boobs and fangs" fest that he pumped out in the 60's and 70's.  In fact this movie is often described as a "fairy tale" with the two orphan girls spending a good portion of it meeting different supernatural creatures and learning about them such as the bat lady (below)

Yes, she does look like a solid gold dancer but she is actually a much more advance version of a vampire who attacks like a hawk would instead of seduction like your run of the mill vampire (ala the brides from the film "Van Helsing" without the expensive CGI).

As far as the girls themselves, via their stories they seem to be quite old as far as years existing but their looks (as well as their maturity level) are that of a teenager and they treat the sun going down the same way a party girl waits for the weekend to go clubbing.  Often their careless acts get them in trouble as they really aren't intelligent vampires and often are seen playing with their victims instead of just attacking.  In one instance in the film this ends up costing them a meal and they end up having to feed on each other just to survive the day

Another sign of their immaturity is they tend to tell anyone who'll listen that they are vampires like Bruce Wayne talking to a blonde.  They have a slight ego so fanging out to prove a point isn't beneath them including having a heart to heart about it with two other girls at the orphanage prior to sucking them dry.

 
Basically this film is about the struggles of being a teenage vampire (every time they got adopted in the past they just ended up killing their foster parents).  There is probably some hidden moral about being an outcast and no matter how alone you are their is someone else that can relate but I will just leave the moral at "Hot teenage vampire girls are really irresponsible". This film gets a Vampire Beauty Rating of 3 out of 5. 

Vampiress Review: "Lips of Blood"

The Gist: After seeing a picture of a familiar castle a guy goes in search of the place.  On his journey he believes to have seen a woman who helped him as a child.  Problem is she seems to not have aged at all. 

Clarification: Being that this is a Jean Rollins film it's best described as a really slow paced softcore porn.  Not all out sex like a Jess Franco film would be but instead just a lot of gratuitous female nudity (but since it's in french you can just tell your girlfriend it's an art film).  There really isn't much to the plot so you can pretty much ignore the subtitles if you don't speak french and have no problem knowing what's going on.  Basically you've got a guy snooping around different parts of a small town getting into trouble for nearly two hours with hot female vampires coming to his rescue every time (after he accidentally releases them from their crypt fumbling around of course).

Selling Point: The hot female vampires wardrobe mostly consist of a see through coverups.

Female Vampire Factor:  This film gets a Vampire Beauty Rating of 5 out of 5.  Rollins was a perve who had a major thing for female vampires when it came to his films so stuff like plot was completely secondary to getting chicks with fangs on screen as much as possible.  A good 15 minutes of the film is nothing but the above women walking or standing around with fangs (among other things) showing.  

Out of the group the ones with the most screen time where Rollins favorites, twin sisters Catherine and Marie Pierre Castel who get a scene on their own where they save Frederic (the main character) from electro shock therapy at an asylum he was forced in by disguising themselves as nurses and biting the doctor.  Basically the vamps are the protagonists of the film acting as a guardian angel of sorts for Frederic.

The main vamp Jennifer (Annie Briand. left) gets the least fang time in the film which is explained through the surprise twist ending which I won't spoil.    Definitely a movie a fang lover can get into and relate to.