Female vampires once ruled the world. Now they are overlooked for glittering guys with big hair. It's time to point out why the female of the species should be the center of attention.
The Gist: A rich egotistical womanizing business man is attacked by a werewolf and finds himself in the middle of a wore between supernatural creatures he didn't know existed.
Clarification: Russell Bayne is a businessman who is trying to buy up a bunch of land to develop it into some type of project. Problem is a small shop that sells occult things owned by a young lady named Alex Layton is in the way because she won't sell.
One night Russell is driving down a backwoods road at night when a lady stops him for help as she wrecks her car swerving as she saw something in the road. That something ends up being a werewolf who destroys the woman and mauls Russell. He wakes up a few days later in the hospital and after Russell realizes he's turning into a monster he goes back to the shop and accuses Alex of putting a curse on him.
Once she realizes that he's a werewolf she reveals that she's one as well and volunteers to help him control it. While all this is going down a group of vampires are after Russell who want him for their plot to no longer live in the shadows and in fear of humans and take over with the help of their resurrected queen Lilith.
Selling Point: This is one of those movies where the werewolves are hot too. They don't necessarily turn all the way in some cases so just hairy hot girls with fangs at times.
Female Vampire Factor: The vampire queen Lilith is played by Yancy Butler
Lilith is a lot like Queen Akasha in Queen of the Damned. Many of the vampires prefer their life of solitude meanwhile she just wants to take over and will kill anyone including other vampires who get in the way of that.
The main vampire of film "Von Griem" is where the female vampire factor in this film truly comes from. Basically he has a stable of sexy female vampires that do all his dirty work.
It's a pretty decent film even if the ending is ridiculously cheesy. This is a bigger deal once you realize that this is a SyFy Channel film considering the reputation those have. I give it a Vampire Beauty Rating of 3 out of 5. The film does have an open ending hinting there could be a sequel but obviously after 10 years it's not happening.
Van Helsing is a television series produced in Canada which has aired since 2016 on the SyFy channel and is based on a graphic novel of the same name.
It falls into the same premise as the other more famous graphic novel turned TV show the Walking Dead in which it takes place in a post Apocalyptic United States where vampires (instead of zombies) have taken over and a small group of survivors try not to get captured or turned.
The main character of the series is a female named Vanessa (Kelly Overton)
She's pretty much Sarah Conner from Terminator 2. Bad ass woman who goes around beating up and shooting things while leading a resistance and wanting to protect her kid. In the beginning we don't know much about her other than she woke up from a coma with both the military and the vampires looking to retrieve her and she has a daughter that's missing but when she wakes up she discovers that she's basically a reverse vampire. That means she has all the powers of a vampire but none of the weaknesses. She doesn't need human blood to live like a tradition vampire but drinking blood boosts all her powers similar to Popeye eating spinach. Also if she bites a vampire they become human again.
As for vampires in this series they fall into two categories, ferals and non ferels. It's explained that once a vampire is turned if they feed on animal blood they pretty much lose all humanity basically attacking anything that moves (basically this series version of the Walking Dead zombies). If they feed on human blood within a certain time of turning they just become a more evil and aggressive version of themselves with blood lust. The non feral vampires barely get any screen time as the series mostly revolves around Vanessa and the survivors she is with. As season 1 progresses we are introduced to a few that includes a very attractive vamp named Rebecca.
We eventually learn that it is Rebecca who has Vanessa's daughter Dylan who has been turned and she's been raising her as her own.
Dylan being a young girl via the unwritten rule of all vampire film and TV is way more powerful and dangerous than any other vampire as she's been enhanced by the vampires scientists to be immune to sunlight and she's barely controllable with the temperament of a feral but the intelligence of a non feral.
The vampires of the series minus the special cases above have all the regular storybook weaknesses. They've gotten around the sunlight problem through polluting the air to where sunlight doesn't get through and the vampires in the series do not have fangs with them basically just looking like walking corpses.
The first season of the series honestly is pretty hard to watch as the series starts out extremely slow with the characters backstories being explained throughout the series very vaguely. In fact I would say that the first half of the season is pretty much skipable and you won't be worse for wear. The end of season 1 and beyond on the other hand is a very enjoyable action series that I would recommend.
The Gist: After his wife is killed by a vampire and the human cultists that worship her a young vampire hunter seeks out his mentor to help aid him in tracking the vampire down to kill her.
Clarification: So this is a direct sequel to the 2011 film that I very much enjoyed. It is no more than just The Walking Dead but with vampires but if the formula works go with it and the way they do it does actually make for an intriguing story. More so than the SyFy series "Van Helsing" which has a similar premise.
With that being said, much like The Walking Dead, vampires are all background characters and are treated exactly like zombies so you aren't going to get any eye candy out of this. I'll get that out the way now that Vampire Beauty Rating for this is 1 out of 5.
Selling Point: These two movies together would make decent seasons of a TV show and do have pretty good entertainment factor.
Female Vampire Factor: Only two worth mentioning. The first is the main antagonist vampire who is a blonde with one eye. She is responsible for killing the main protagonists family, ironically with an arrow that he shot meant for her.
The other (SPOILER ALERT) is the only female main character of the film. A feral human named "lady" played by Laura Abramson.
They find her and take her in and thanks to the fact that she was not raised by humans is very much like a puppy with her behavior. When she ends up getting bit, the man who took care of her "Mister" hesitates to end her. His hesitation pays off as even though she is a vampire she does not go after him instead attacking the members of the vampire worshiping cult hunting him and dying in the process.
So if you liked the original you will like this one. If you haven't seen either I do recommend them but be prepared as there is absolutely no sexy vampirism in this film as opposed to the first which has one slightly enjoyable female vamp.
The Fall television season is quickly approaching which means new shows. Along with shows like the Vampire Diaries, The Originals and the Strain, the newest vampire series will be premiering on SyFy titled Van Helsing.
The series stars Kelly Overton as Vanessa Van Helsing. The daughter of literary vampire hunter Abraham Helsing. In the series she leads a group of vampire slayers in a world where vampires have taken over.
Below is a trailer for the series. It doesn't give much but does seem to show that the vampires do not have fangs though there has been some discussion that the vampires have different clans similar to Kindred: The Embraced
After four seasons SyFy this past week has announced that they have pulled the plug on the North American version of the series Being Human. This almost a year to the day of the final airing of the British series. While the show has had it's ups and downs this marks another blow as far as vamp media on TV and this year also marks the end of True Blood this upcoming summer. For more about the female vamps who've appeared on the series check my review HERE.
Below is a video of the stars of the series thanking their fans.
Being Human is a cable television series which has aired on the SyFy channel since 2011. It is loosely based on a British series of the same title which has aired on BBC Three since 2008.
The story follows the lives of three beings of supernatural origin who through coincidental circumstances end up aligned with one another. You have Sally (Meaghan Rath who is no stranger to playing a vampire as you can see HERE) who is a ghost stuck in the house she was murdered in which is now inhabited by two guys who both have the ability to see and communicate with her because of the fact that they are supernatural as well. Then you have Josh a guy who was turned into a werewolf after a camping trip gone wrong who has attempted to run from his former life which ended up bringing him to Boston; and finally Aiden. A tortured vampire who is attempting to change his ways and get away from the vampiric lifestyle which is how he met Josh (he saved him from being beat to death by his fellow vampires).
Though the story never strays too far from the main 3, as the series goes on it tends to have more and more issues that deal with their specific supernatural brethren. For us that means that Aiden gets to meat up with more vampires from his past and then some (though not too often).
Sarah Allen (Rebecca Flynt)
Rebecca is a one night stand Aiden had. Unbeknownst to him his maker took the liberty of turning her after Aiden got done draining her and in return Aiden got a stalker who believed the two could be together for all eternity and even turned a kid so they could have a family. Being that she was a head case vampire life didn't turn out well for her emotionally and an end was put to her misery in the shows first season.
Nancy Ann Michaud (Jenny, Season 1: Episode 12)
Jenny was a hospital worker where Josh and Aiden work who was turned and recruited to kill Aiden in Season 2. As what happens with most fledgling vampires in her situation they make short work of her.
Deena Aziz (Mother)
Mother his the head of all vampires and is basically all business. So much so that when her daughter exposes her fangs in front of humans in a jealous rage at a party sometime in the beginning of the 20th century she has her grounded (buried alive). She eventually revives her in order to make her next in line to succeed her but ends up killing her when she in turn wouldn't kill Aiden. Definitely not Carol Brady. I'm thinking she got her mothering skills from alien queen Anna from the series "V".
Dichen Lachman (Suren, Season 2)
As described above Suren is the sexy yet unfortunate daughter of "Mother". She had been underground for decades after feeding in public on the woman her boyfriend had been cheating on her with out of rage in the middle of a dinner party but was released in order to take over the vampires of Boston and eventually succeed Mother in leading all vampires with Aiden being selected as her #2 in command. Eventually the two became lovers as well as business partners and things seemed to be going perfect until Mother banished Aiden and she was eventually forced to kill him. Of course she didn't and she got a stake to her heart instead.
Cecilia is a police officer that Saren turned in order to have someone on the inside of the police force. She originally wanted Aiden to do it but he refused (maybe he's just not into black girls as she was coming on to him kind of hard). Unfortunately like many fledgling vampires on shows like this she got cocky and was eventually captured and mauled to death by a pack of werewolves.
Janine Theriault (Blake, Season 3)
Blake is a vampire that Aiden meets at the hospital who is feeding on one of his patients regularly. She tells them that the two have a deal in which she gets to feed on him regularly and in return she will turn him when he turns 18. Problem is that she is taking too much and Aiden being the moralistic vamp he is steps in to save the kids life.
Jessica Malka (Sadie)
In Season 3: Episode 11: Sadie is a stripper who gives Josh a lapdance as Aiden and the boys throw him a bachelor party. She also happens to be a vampire and attempts to take a bite out of Josh after smelling that he's a werewolf. Luckily Aiden is there for him with a stake to save the day.
Katharine Isabelle (Suzanna Waite)
In a bit of brilliant casting in my honest opinion of the sexiest movie werewolves of all time Katharine Isabelle made her debut during the shows fourth and final season of the series as Aiden's long believed dead wife Suzanna. As the story when she was believed to have been murdered by the townspeople for harboring a demon (aka Aiden) she was actually saved and turned by the same vampire who turned him. She became a self hating vampire after she ended up feeding on her own son as her first victim and spent the rest of her life hunting and killing other vampires. She shows up in Boston finally able to face Aiden and wanting to change him to be more human like.
