Huntress is a California based band which consists of lead singer Jill Janus who joined up with members of the band "professor". Their first album as a group was 2012's "Spell Eater".
The concept is simple yet beautifully done. The Band ends up in a spooky castle where they're met by a mysterious woman who ends up being a vampire who attack the band and turns the women who are with them. The band is easy pickings because they're too horny too realize they're in danger.
For more info on the band check out their website HERE and for a cast list on the video check out it's IMDB page.
The Gist: A vampire living as a college professor gets buyers remorse when he turns a female coed into one of the undead once he realizes the evil he unleashed.
Clarification: So the preview (below) makes you believe that the film is about the girls but it in fact is more about the vampire professor who's name just so happens to be Wayne Gretsky. As the story goes he was completely hung up on his one true love but accidentally killed her in a fit of blood lust (or so he thought which we'll get into later). After that moment he could never get his fangs to work up until he set his sites for the first time on Chris who happens to be a dead ringer for his true love Mary. What complicates things much more than the fact that vampire Chris is SUPER evil is the fact that she is also the daughter of Wayne's true love who didn't die after all and has been "living" as a vampire the entire time he thought she was dead.
Trailer
Selling Point: Once the sorority girls become vampires they become VERY slutty
Female Vampire Factor: Taking into account what I've already mentioned regarding the film the whole "Slutty Vampire Sorority" girls portion takes awhile to get started but once it does, it's a pretty good payoff for fans of girls with fangs. For those who have seen the vampire episode of "Smallville" you've pretty much seen this film. The sole reason I can recommend this film is that indeed the female lead is evil...
Julie Gonzalo (Chris Keller/Mary Lipinsky)
Chris starts off as an innocent young college freshman. That all changes when she has an affair with her history professor who sprouts a pair of fangs and bites her in hopes of spending an undead eternity with her feeding off of animal blood (he doesn't feed off of humans). Instead she pretty much does what every female vampire on any episode of "True Blood" does as soon as she gets turned and goes on a long, bloody killing spree. Is it just blood lust that will eventually wear off like every female turn on "The Vampire Diaries?" The answer is NO. She becomes mad with power takes over her sorority turning those willing into vampires and killing the rest and apparently teaches them to use their hotness to bring in victims with the ultimate goal of becoming the leader of a large group of vampires. How evil do you have to be when the vamp that turns you, your vampire mother (Also played by Gonzalo) and your high school sweetheart all come together in hopes of killing you?
So in the end what you basically have is an American answer to the British film "Lesbian Vampire Killers" minus the nudity but with not as weird looking female vampires but just as obnoxious protagonists. My only complaint regarding this film is that it is promoted like it would fall into a similar category as films in the National Lampoon and American Pie franchises (smut filled comedy) but falls short of achieving either at that level. For that it gets a Vampire Beauty Rating of 4 out of 5.
If you ask anyone around the world about the most famous characters in British film in the 1960's and 70's two names would always pop up. James Bond and Dracula. Seemingly the two chacaters have a lot in commons (outside of the fact that Christopher Lee himself starred as the main villain of the James Bond Film "The Man with the Golden Gun".
Once Hammer Studio's got a hold of the rights to do a color film adaptation of Dracula and put their own spin on it there was no going back. Sexy womanizer Dracula and his busty seductive vampire brides were a huge draw. In all, 9 Dracula films were made (not counting 1960's Brides of Dracula which I review HERE) and in all of them Dracula had new sexy females to leave his mark on. While there are several tributes to Bond girls, the Dracula girls rarely get love. That is until now. Here is a list of the sexy female vampires of Hammer Horror's Dracula.
Valerie Gaunt (Horror of Dracula, 1958)
You always remember your first and this is the first vampiress babe of the Hammer Horror era. That also makes her the first to pull the whole "I'm a damsel in distress" act to trick a guy (in this case Jonathon Harker) into getting close enough for her to get a bite in, which becomes a bit of of a running gag of sorts in the Dracula films as it happens quite a bit. I guess Dracula never taught his brides the "seduce them into a false sense of security" trick used by the Karnsteins.
Carol Marsh (Lucy Holmwood: "Horror of Dracula", 1958)
Lucy as those who know the original story are aware is unknowingly to those around her including her fiance being seduced and slowly drained by Dracula until she eventually dies and comes back in hopes of having a child snack. Since this film was based on the original story, that has not changed and just like in the story Lucy unfortunately does not survive long after she has turned.
Barbera Shelley (Helen Kent: "Dracula: Prince of Darkness", 1966)
In the first sequel to the franchise Helen is a member of a family who ends up staying at Castle Dracula despite warnings from the villagers in the era. Her husband is eventually murdered there and his blood is used to revive Dracula who then bites and turns Helen in order to keep her for himself. In another re-occurring theme in Dracula movies, once she is turned she becomes very ambitious and attempts to go after her sister in law Diana whom Dracula has already laid claim too. This is one of the few movies in which it doesn't lead to domestic violence since Diana's husband Charles butts in and Dracula attempts to use Helen to take out Charles.
Barbera Ewing (Zena "Dracula has Risen from the Grave" (1968))
In this film Dracula uses Zena to help him capture a hot blonde name "Maria". When she fails at her attempt, he drains her dry. Though she doesn't become a vampire per se, she does develop a set of fangs postmortem prior to her body being disposed of.
Isla Blair (Lucy Paxton: "Taste the Blood of Dracula" (1970))
In what I think was an ultra weird plot, Dracula takes revenge on a group of men who killed one of his minions that brought him back to life. His method of revenge was a confusing set of circumstances where he turned people close to those he was after and had them do the work. Lucy's part of the plan was to turn her boyfriend and with the help of a hot blonde named Alice (who is the daughter of one of the guys being hunted who she kills her self after being under Dracula's spell) kill one of the guys (which she does). While she wasn't bad looking at all the thing that blows my mind is that Dracula didn't turn Alice who I thought would have made an absolutely SEXY vampire (the problem being he waited to long as he does attempt to turn her in the end). Alice is played by Linda Hayden and lucky for us she does play a vampire briefly in the film Old Dracula.
Anouska Hempel (Tania: "Scars of Dracula" (1970))
The New Zealand born hotty was in a scene in this film which almost mirrored the scene done with Valerie Gaunt in the first film. During the beginning of the film a man named Paul who is falsely accused of rape escapes atop a carriage which drops him off near Dracula's castle where her character "Tania" lives with the count. She (much like Gaunt) pulls the "I'm a prisoner, please help me" routine just to sleep with Paul and then tries to bite him afterword. As usual Dracula catches her in the act but in this case he kills her for it (I guess he's tired of his brides trying to screw and bite every guy who comes by the castle).
The Brides ("Satanic Rites of Dracula" (1974))
The last of the Hammer Dracula films to star Christopher Lee takes place in modern day (as in 1974) England and follows the story of British authorities attempt to find the origin of a satanic cult that killed a secret service agent. In the basement of the cults supposed leader was four female vampires chained to their coffins and held inside by a light beam. Once Dr. Van Helsings granddaughter decides to explore the cellar instead of staying put she almost gets bitten herself as she was almost fooled into unchaining the secret service secretary who was also stored in the cellar who had already been turned.
Once Jane realizes whats going on she had already been ambushed by the other four female vampires (played by Maggie Fitzgerald, Fionnuala O'shannon, Mia Martin and Pauline Peart) and had to be rescued by the other investigators.
Historically Pearts role would make this the first time a black vampire of any kind would appear in a hammer film.
Barbera Yu Lin (Chin Yank, "Satanic Rites of Dracula" (1974))
Chin Yang is the one who was believed to be the mastermind of the satanic cult. Of course we all know it was really Dracula but it was nice of him to give the credit to someone else for a change. Not to mention she's a female and she is also the first Asian vampire to appear in a Hammer horror film. The scene in which she turns is pretty hot where she pulls the now stereotypical "I'm a damsel in distress and Dracula is holding me prisoner" line followed by her hypnotizing Inspector Murray before attempting to bite him (tho it doesn't turn out well for her of course but on the bright side foot fetishists will love her death scene either way).
Julie Ege (Vanessa Buren "Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires" (1974))
In the final film of Hammer Horrors Dracula Saga, Julie plays a wealthy widow that hires a group of martial artists to find and kill a group of vampires who attempted to kill her (the main of which has been possessed by the spirit of Count Dracula). In one of the final scenes of the film, one of the 7 deadly vampires does get their hands on her and bites her. Immediately she turns and bites one of the fighters she sent to kill the vampires who then impales both her and himself. Unlike the other movies in the series there is no Christopher Lee and it is categorized more as a martial arts action film than that of your average dark, cerebral Dracula film. I guess what I'm saying is this one is definitely an acquired taste.
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