Vampiress TV Review: Hercules: the Legendary Journey

 Season 6, Episode 4 "Darkness Visible"

Hercules The Legendary journeys was a television series which aired in American Syndication from 1995 to 1999.  The show would go on to have two spinoffs, the much more popular Xena: Warrior Princess and the slightly less popular Young Hercules which started a not yet famous Ryan Gosling.  All three series would have an episode dedicated to vampires with the Young Hercules and Xena episodes connecting to one another.  The episode of this show would go a different route.  

In this show they associate Hercules with the real life Vlad the Impaler. 

It is Hercules who goes to Vlad's castle after being summoned that it was being attacked by Dampier but by the time he gets there it's too late and Vlad has already been turned into a vampire.  Hercules then has to fight his old friend who wants to bleed him dry for power. 

Female Vampire Factor

In the episode Vlad has taken a village girl who went there for refuge named Nadia and turned her.  You see her attack a guy in the opening shot of the episode. 

She ends up doing most of the vampire stuff on the show as she eventually turns her brother.

and only moments later turns Hercules' partner Iolaus. 

While not a bad episode it is definitely the weakest vampire episode of the three shows with Bacchus being a much better main villain than Vlad on the other two programs with a much more impressive harem of vampiress henchwomen then just one woman and the two people she turned in the episode.  I give it a Vampire Beauty Rating of 2 out of 5. 

Vampiress TV Review : Shewolf of London Love & Curses

Habeaus Corpses
Season 1
Episode 16

Love and Curses was a series which aired in the early 1990's which followed the story of Dr. Ian Matheson and his assistant Randi Wallace.  Ian is a talk show host that specializes in the accult and Randi is not only his assistant but his love interest who happens to also be a werewolf. 

In this episode the two take on the case of a man who comes to the couple claiming to be the victim of his ex wife and her lawyer who are vampires. The man ends up dying in their doorway and they investigate just to find that his allegations were true and there is a law firm specializing in divorces completely run by vampires who want Randi as their newest member. 

Female Vampire Factor: There were two femme vamps in this episode...

Karen Colfax (Sandra Kerns)

Karen is the soon to be ex wife of the victim of this episode, a wealthy man named Marty.  She hires the vampire lawfirm to handle her divorce and as an added bonus it seems she was turned to one herself. 

Nancy Chambers (Marta DuBois)

In order to get more information about the firm Randi and Ian fake a divorce themself and Nancy is hired to be Ians divorce lawyer.  She is eventually called to a private meeting with Randi's vampire lawyer where she is turned and eventually returns to Ian to feed on him. 

Final Opinion: Pretty decent episode even if it's relatively corny even by early 90's standards. I'll give it a Vampire Beauty Rating of 4 out of 5.  Only thing keeping it from a five is the fact that neither of the women were very seductive.