Vampiress Review: "Bloodrunners"

The Gist: Crooked small town cops in the prohibition era 1930's bite off more than they can chew when the speakeasy they try to shake down for bribes ends up being run by vampires.

Female Vampire Factor:  One of the vampires pays a visit to a cat house one evening and takes a bite out of one of the whores Violet (Tammy Jean).

Later in the film as the cops go to the cathouse for comfort she finally turns and drains a cop.  She doesn't last much longer after that as she's staked the next time you see her as the main human characters raid the speakeasy (the vampires come and retrieve her after she turns and takes her back).

The master vampire Chesterfield played by Ice T has a female vampire that he is regularly attached to who's a lounge singer at the speakeasy named Alexandra (Julie Ek).  In most scenes he's training her in how to enjoy blood drinking basically

She doesn't do anything really vampiric and much like the other female vampire is staked shortly after the first time you see her fang out in the last ten minutes. 

Final Opinion: This in reality is about 10 to 15 minutes of actual vampire movie that takes place at the end of a somewhat hard to follow period movie.  I put it in the category of a film that tries to do way too much when the main premise was more than enough to fill an hour and a half.  Instead of telling one story well it tells a bunch of them poorly to where you're introduced to a ton of characters that you have no attachment to whatsoever to really care what happens to them.  I give this a Vampire Beauty Rating of 2 out of 5.  The scene of Violet turning is what you're looking for if you do decide to check it out but the overall enjoyment factor of the film isn't that great.  Everytime it feels like the momentum of the movie is about to go up it shuts itself down with unneeded backstory and side tracking.

The Vampiress Episode: "American Horror Story"

Season 5

"Hotel"

American Horror Story is a television series which has aired on the FX Network in the US since 2011.  The show acts as a mini series with every season acting as one story with a start and end with every new season acting as a new story with new characters (though usually played by the same actors). 

Season 5 has a slight relation to the first season as it is the first to have a recurring character from another season appear  ( the murder house Realtor Marcy).  The season revolves around a haunted hotel called "The Cortez".  The Hotel is owned by the Countess played by singer and Vampire Enthusiast Lady GaGa.

The Countess is an immortal vampire who lives in the hotel along with her vampire boy toy.  Problem is she gets tired of her men (and women) quickly and seems to turn any attractive young person who steps foot in it which becomes a lot once the hotel is bought by a famous fashion designer.  Unfortunately she is also broke so her plan as of this writing is to marry the fashion designer then have him killed for his money. 

There are several side plots on the series one of which revolves around the countess kidnapping and turning children for her to filter blood through.  The kids drink the blood of dirty people, she then has the children bled and drinks their blood. This will later cause a problem for the countess as one of the children is the kidnapped and believe murdered son of a police detective who's staying at the hotel while trying to solve a murder investigation revolving  a cheating couple who died there (a murder which is separate from the vampirism and each killing being a representative of the 7 deadly sins).

Another Vampire subplot has to do with a 1970's B movie actress named Ramona Royale played by Angela Bassett.  Bassett who also played in Vampire in Brooklyn  plays a former love interest of the Countess who was turned by her in the 1970's.  At the point of this writing she's seeking revenge for the Countess killing her lover.  The countess did it out of spite as she doesn't approve of others creating vampires.  

Despite the Entertainment Weekly article about this season showing small fangs on GaGa the vampires in this series are fang-less with vampirism being explained as just a disease where your immune system is super powered through drinking blood (which is awkward as they are confirmed to be the living dead). The show is more about shock value than anything really horror movie like though there have been a hand full of jump scares from odd demon like creatures showing up in the hotel along with the murder sub-plot.  American Horror Story can be seen every Wednesday on the FX Network.

UPDATE:  On Episode 4 of the season entitled "Devils Night" the countess was confronted by the mother of the above mentioned child and estranged wife of the police officer living in the Hotel "Dr. Alex Lowe" (Chloe Sevigny).  Lowe found her child and took him home just to witness him drink their dogs blood and demanded to know what was wrong with him.  The Countess' response was the truth and informed her the only way she could be with her son again was to become like him.

As the above picture indicated you can see she chose her son over her life and after a bit of lesbian kissing and GaGa boob blood drinking Dr. Lowe is now a vampire.  This brings the shows female vampire count to 4 including the front desk clerk played by Kathy Bates who was turned in the previous episode but not counting the female children who barely exist on the show.