Showing posts with label horror comedy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label horror comedy. Show all posts

Sunday, August 9, 2020

Vampiress Review: "The Boneyard Collection"

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0832284/

The Gist: Several comedic short horror films viewed by an elderly vampire doctor and his two young beautiful hostesses.

Female Vampire Factor: The first story of the film is called "Her Morbid Desire".  In it a woman tells her story about her first real big break in Hollywood when she gets the lead roll in a vampire movie.  Problem is actresses in the film end up murdered on set which ends up helping the popularity of the movie by generating buzz over the production.  The murders tend to be revealed during the filming of the scenes so there is A LOT of fanged women in this portion of the film.
 Also during the setup to the second story a vampiress named Nova comes to visit Dr. Acula
after that segment she has a catty moment with the Dr.'s lovelies leading to her fanging out.


Final Opinion: As far as the other stories you have..

Story 2: "Boogie With the Undead" which is about an all girl rock band who hunts zombies.

Story 3: "Cry of the Mummy" is about a mummy who is trying to find a way to break into show business.

Story 4: "The Devil's Due at Midnight" which is about ghouls and witches preparing to throw a party for the devil.

I will legitimately say this might be the standard for how these kinds of cheesy low budget compilation T&A films should be.  The shorts were actually kind of funny and the humor didn't feel forced at all not to mention the vampire section of the film was more vampiric then a lot of actual vampire films.  I give it a Vampire Beauty Rating of 4 out of 5.  Only thing keeping it from a five is that most of the film isn't vampire related but the parts that are do it very well.

Sunday, May 31, 2020

Vampiress Review: "Red Days"


The Gist:  After a Nuclear bomb hits Los Angeles a group of friends try to survive as gangs take over the city government and many of the survivors become zombie like cannibals.

Female Vampire Factor: In the most "matter of factly" way possible the main characters daughter just randomly appears toward the films end (after being missing the entire movie which spans about 5 years worth of time) and is revealed to be a zombie fighting vampire.
 She spends the end of the movie staying in her fathers garage bragging that she killed his friends before she eventually (after he tries to have her killed even though she should have said this from the beginning to avoid that) that she was sent by the monarchy running the city to save him


Final Opinion:  So this is an attempt to be a horror comedy in the same light as films like Shaun of the Dead.  They didn't exactly fail at it but my only real complaint is that they stepped on everything that was funny and enjoyable about the film by sticking with jokes too long to the point that they went from funny to me literally having to fast forward to get past segments where it became beating a dead horse.   A parody of bleeding heart liberals on cable news saying that zombies should have the right to vote is funny but then it went on forever.  Guy getting put on hold and sent to different departments while trying to call someone about getting rid of a vampire is funny but then again it went on forever to the point the joke had wore off it's effectiveness.
I give it a Vampire Beauty Rating of 3 out of 5.  As I mentioned it's one character at the end but she's an awesome character. I recommend the movie but just have your remote handy for the stuff that should have been left on the cutting room floor.