Vampiress Review: Electra (1996)

The Gist:  A woman who secretly has a sexual obsession with her stepson is manipulated by a super villain to use those feelings to get a secret formula from him that would give him superpowers. 

 

Clarification:  This film starring Shannon Tweed is about a woman who falls in love with her late husband's son who just happens to be inheriting all his father's research (basically he created a formula that gives people superpowers).  The film is fun to watch in a old school Cinemax guilty pleasure sort of away as the plot and everything about the film is wall to wall fan service. Especially since the supervillain's main henchman amount to two really hot woman who wear revealing costumes throughout. 

Female Vampire Factor: As mentioned, the main plot revolves around a woman who has a thing for her stepson which is adult film stereotype 101.  

Problem for her though outside of the son having the logic of a 10-year-old who is very confused about the idea that his stepmom might be hot is that he has an equally hot girlfriend.  It becomes clear that the mom becomes jealous of her and by the films end both end up taking the serum to get superpowers and fighting it out. It is here when the mother gets superpowers, is renamed Electra and gets her own sexy outfit. 

Oh, and did I forget to mention she got the superpowers by molesting her stepson as apparently, they can be spread sexually?

Well, when Stepmom and her stepson's girlfriend fight it out there is a point where they stop as stepmom somehow transforms into the girlfriends missing mother. When the girlfriend then let's her guard down Mom turns back, sprouts fang and stabs her with her nails before licking the blood off her fingers. 

Final Opinion: So is this really a vampire film?  Not really but does include a fanged woman who drinks blood which makes it good enough.  Otherwise the target audience here is people into low budget superhero style films with a small bit of Cinemax style nudity thrown in.  I give it a Vampire Beauty Rating of 3 out of 5.  Because it's unintentionally funny it's actually a pretty easy and sometimes enjoyable watch if you're into cheesy films. 

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Vampiress After Dark Review: Lesbian Vampire Hospital remake (RCTD-688)

The Gist:  After a hospitalized woman gets a blood transfusions with vampire blood, she wreaks havoc in the hospital sucking blood and spreading vampirism.

Clarification:  This is an almost shot for shot remake of the 2015 film of the same name.  The only real difference being a lot of the filler portions of the film explaining the plot are gone and there are zero men in the movie, so no vampire nurse gets revenge on sexual harassing doctor scene and no more female vampire hunter biting her male partner after him not realizing she had been turned scene.   The latter being a real loss to the film.

Female Vampire Factor: The Film stars Hikaru Miyanishi, Nozomi Arimura, Sakura Tsuji, and Suzu Monami. 

When I say it's a shot for shot remake I mean I'm just going to cut and paste from the original description with a screen shot from the original on the left and its remake counterpart on the right,  it's that close.   

Scene 1: After discovering she is now a vampire, the patient masturbates in bed. 

Scene 2: Vampire patient attacks and turns a nurse. 

Scene 3: The vampire patient learns it was the doctor who turned her. 

Scene 4: The hospital vampires attack a nun who is there to hunt them.

Scene 5:  Having fed on everyone in the hospital the vampires celebrate. 

Final Opinion: As you can see, the parts they decided to remake they did pretty well and decently accurate.  The issue is the parts they left out were things that without some of those scenes it makes the film seem lacking.  If you've never seen the first film, then you won't notice.  If you have then you'll want those scenes back, but it won't ruin the entertainment factor.  Since it is not as good as the first in my opinion but still not bad, I'll give it a Vampire Beauty Rating of 4 out of 5.  My advice.  Watch both instead of one or the other with this as a companion piece to the original and not a replacement. 

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Vampiress Review: "Dracula Prisoner of Frankenstein"

The Gist: Dr. Frankenstein moves into Dracula's castle and resurrects his dead body in order to use the vampire to do his bidding.

Clarification: I don't know much about the background of the making of this movie but by watching it it's very obvious that this film as well as Dracula's Daughter was made at the same time as they have pretty much the same cast and same setting though this film would be a lot tamer than Dracula's Daughter which was released two months after this one.  

It's not a very strong film story wise and can be summed up pretty effortlessly.  Basically Dr, Frankenstein resurrects Dracula,  Dracula attacks a few people, The Dr. regrets resurrecting Dracula and destroys him, the end.  Unlike many of Jess Franco's films this one can't be described what so ever as erotic horror though.  There is no nudity or eroticism whatsoever in this one.  Obviously if you saw my review for Dracula's Daughter he more then made up for it with that one. 

Selling Point: Another opportunity to see Britt Nichols with fangs.

Female Vampire Factor: As mentioned above it's pretty much the same cast as Dracula's Daughter so this would be the first of two films were Nichols would be playing a sexy vampiress but this film is not even in the same league as the other one in the "Sexy" category.  Here she just kind of appears randomly to take victims or just hiss at the screen where as the other one she's a full blown lesbian vampire sex pot.

Also in the film Dracula takes a crazy woman named Maria (Paca Gabaldón) and turns her.  She really only gets one scene as a vampire before she's destroyed in the films finale.  Her role for most of the film before that is to make random orgasm like noises in a room whenever she's on screen.

This is definitely a skipable film all around.   At the end of the day all this film does is make me want to watch Dracula's Daughter again which is a great erotic horror film as this makes me appreciate it so much more (plus you get to see the women in this film naked in that one).  I give it a Vampire Beauty Rating of 3 out of 5. 

Vampiress After Dark Review: "An Erotic Tale of Ms. Dracula"

The Gist:  A husband and wife team attempt to sneak into a vampires lair in order to save a girl being held captive.

Clarification: There really isn't much to clarify as the storyline to this movie is just an excuse to give the actors something to talk about for roughly a minute between sex scenes.  It is not a plot driven movie whatsoever just a couple of minutes of sexual innuendo between characters followed by softcore sex. 

Selling Point: Great movie if you like simulated lesbian orgy's

Female Vampire Factor:  None whatsoever to the point that it gets a Vampire Beauty Rating of 1 out of 5.  This movie threatens to have a vampire storyline but doesn't and only utilizes names from the Dracula novel for the characters.  Long story short a guy named Van Helsing hires Mina and Jonathon Harker and offers them one million dollars to save a girl named Ashley who's being held captive at the countess Dracula's castle.  Apparently the Countess plans on turning Ashley (who's importance is never explained) into a vampire.  The couple get into the mansion under the guise of being misuses and any attempt at a storyline goes to hell from that point on as they pretty much have sex with everyone there with nothing else of interest happening.  In fact the only vampiric thing to happen in the movie is in the films opening credits and just after it's first sex scene when Ms. Dracula played by Alexis Texas fangs out.  This is the ONLY time that happens.

The only vampire moment of the film

Seemingly every year Showtime around October gives us one of these softcore porn vamp films for Halloween.  While I wasn't a huge fan of last years film it was way more vampire related than this one.

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