The Gist: A Vampire from the Caribbean comes to Brooklyn, New York in search of a woman to continue his blood line.
Clarification: Eddie Murphy is "Maximilian". Apparently, vampires where he's from are an endangered species and he must find a woman in order to keep his bloodline going (I guess the old fashion "biting" doesn't work). Basically, this is "Coming to America" with a horror theme.
Female Vampire Factor:This movie gets a Vampire Beauty Rating of 3 out of 5. This is one of those films where the vampire spends the entire movie seducing one woman and by the end of the movie you're wishing she'd hurry up and turn already. Thankfully she does, Thanks Wes Craven!
Vampiress Cast
Angela Bassett(Rita Veder)
Rita is the NYPD detective that Maximilian spends his time trying to convince to join his "lifestyle". It is explained that she is half vampire as her father was one (which she didn't know) and her mother was human (I guess that makes her Damphyre like BloodRayne). Eventually her vampire side gets the best of her, and she finally vamps out while having a make out session with her partner in the department "Justice". Most of the end of the film is her fighting her vampire urges then giving into them while Justice tries to snap her out of it. She's not hot when she goes full on vampire but is great when it's just the fangs.
The Gist: After a robbery gone wrong, one man goes to prison for 8 years just to be released and find out his partner who escaped is now a vampire.
Clarification: This movie is so horrible it is actually entertainingly funny. The "low budget independent movie" community is trying really hard to bring back the "blacksploitation" film and this is just another attempt at it. To further elaborate on the story Kalil (the vampire) needs a magic ambulate to have unlimited power and uses the friend he let rot in jail (Jakeem) to do it. Hilarious (though I doubt on purpose) hijinks ensues after that.
Selling Point: If there is any (at least for this blog) It would be the multiple vampiresses (the official count is 3...see below)
Female Vampire Factor: This movie gets a vampire beauty rating of 3 out of 5. They are prevalent in the film but not enough to change how mind numbingly dumb this film is. The story has all kinds of potential but they just drop the ball in the presentation by just having the whole thing come off REALLY cheesy.
Vampiress cast
Kareema Bay
Bay plays a female vampire who is being hunted by a priest but with her super sensitive vampire hearing, knows he's coming and ambushes him. This scene has nothing to do with the rest of the movie other than to let you know that it's a vampire movie (because you wouldn't think that looking at the title I guess).
Krystal Hill
Hill plays "Vampiesha" (at least that's what the credits say). She's the vamp that turns Kalil. From there I guess she goes to work for him as she is one of the vamps who tries to stop Jakeem from escaping with the ambulate for Kalil.
Anju Mcyintire
Anju (aka A.J. Khan for you Cinemax after Dark/Seduction Cinema fans) plays "Vampyros" (again, that's what the credits say as NONE of the female vampires are actually referred to by name in this movie, nor do they speak). She is seen briefly in the scene where Jakeem steels the ambulate back from Kalil and she tries to stop him.
Blade is a comic book character created by Stan Lee and Marvel Comics. He is classified as a day walker as he is half human/half vampire. The back story on Blade was that his mother was raped by a vampire causing her to die in childbirth. Due to this he has vowed to destroy all vampires for what they did. Blade has spawned 3 successful movies starring Westley Snipes and a not so successful (but highly underrated) TV series starring Kirk "Sticky Fingaz" Jones that had one season on Spike TV in the United States. This will cover all of them.
Racquel
Played by former teen porn star Traci Lordsin a role that helped legitimize her career Racquel was the right hand of Decon Frost in the first Blade Film released in 1998. She is also the first vampire you see in action in the film as she lures a poor sap to a vampire owned night club that rains blood. Luckily for her once Blade comes in to clean house she makes it out safely.
Mercury
Arly Jover plays "Mercury". Not much of a main character with a personality to describe, most of her scenes consist of her either standing in the background or fighting. To her credit she does make it to the final fight scene in the movie. Jover also played the main vamp in the movie John Carpenter presents Vampires: Los Muertos.
Vanessa
Vanessa aka Blades mom was played by the perfect 10 Sanaa Lathan. If she doesn't go on anyones list of hottest female vampires of all time there is something completely wrong with you. The scene toward the end of the first Blade movie (stills below) when he is being bled but as he looks up sees her in that tight getup with her flowing long curly locks and fangs out is easily one of my top 5 female vamp scenes of all time. Unfortunately as what happens all too often in these films, the grand opening was also the grand closing as she gets staked by her own son.
Nyssa
Played by Leonor Vareka, Nyssa was a member of the blood pack, A group of military trained vampires who were originally formed to hunt Blade but instead joined forces with him in order to kill the group of mutated vampires that were accidentally created in Blade 2. Since the vamps in this movie were being hunted and not hunting, you don't get any fanging out from her but since she is a main character (the ONLY female main character) she gets a mention.
Danica Talos
My second favorite vamp of the franchise, Danica's appeal is completely on her VERY upfront personality. Played by Parker Posey, she has a very dominatrix like quality about her which makes everything she does or says seem very kinky in the movie Blade Trinity. Combine that with the naughty librarian look she holds onto for most of the movie and you have the perfect vampiress. The scene with her interrogating Hannibal King kind of makes you wish she'd strap you in a chair and torture you with her heels (if you're into that sort of thing).
Krista Starr
Played by Jill Wagner, Krista was a female with a military background who found herself becoming a vampire while tracking down the people who killed her brother in "Blade: The Series". From there Blade used her as a mole inside the inner workings of vampire kingpin Marcus Van Sciver's operation (as Marcus was who turned her and he seemed to have a thing for her). Problems was, vampire Krista was careless sometimes and you kind of questioned what side she was on every once in awhile.
Chase
Played by Aussie Actress Jessica Gower Chase was the super bi-sexual right hand of Marcus on Blade: The Series. She seemed to have a bit of a crush and was jealous of Krista at the same time. If you get the DVD of the series you get A LOT of naked ass shots of her and it's a pretty sweet ass. The thing I like the most about Chase that sets her apart from other female vamps is the fact that she is durable. Every time you think you've killed her, she comes back.
Lisa Starr
Played by P. Lynn Johnson, Lisa is the mother of Krista Starr. When she goes ill and is diagnosed with terminal cancer Krista decides to turn her to keep her alive. Unfortunately she never got a chance to let her mom know exactly what was going on and before Krista knew it, her mom was on a murdering spree, biting anyone and everyone she came in contact with and in the episode "Turn the Screw" (below) Krista finally has to put her super blood thirsty mom down.
Sabine
Sabin, played bySahar Biniaz was the assassin that Krista was fighting with when her vampire mother disappeared from her death bed. She was one of the right hands of the pure bloods who not only had issue with Blade but probably more so with Marcus. Unfortunately she came to her end at the beginning of the "Turn the Screw" episode at the hands of Krista with a well placed shard of glass from a mirror she went through.
Charlotte
Charlotte was the big wig of the vampire world on Blade: The Series. Played by Emily Hirst, she was one of the original pure blood vampires in existence so she was quite old and very powerful. Her biggest asset was that she looked like a child which came in handy when it was feeding time (who would accuse an innocent little girl of being a monster.) She also had a knack for making vampires as she turned an entire school in a short time period in the episode "Monsters" (Below).
