Vampiress Review: "Black as Night"

The Gist: A teenage girl in New Orleans finds herself at war with a vampire leader who plans on turning the cities destitute population into a vampire army after they turn her mother. 

Female Vampire Factor:  Not much to speak of.  Only one that gets any screen time is in the scene where the films protagonist Shawna visits her mother after being attacked herself and her mother turns and attacks her. 

Final Opinion:  Obviously with the above statement I can't give it a Vampire Beauty Rating above 1 out of 5.  With that being said for overall enjoyment this is a great film that I can't say enough great things about.  Genuinely decent vampire horror movies where vampires are a thing to be feared and not the stereotypical "people who live normal but just happened to have a taste for blood who are potential love interests" are hard to find.  

While the head vamps do still follow the "vampires are divided into mob like factions" thing films like to do the film is not told from the vampires point of view but from the victims so it doesn't matter. Vamps in this film are a threat to be feared and if they're on screen (with one exception) they're trying to kill someone so if you're looking for a straight forward horror film I can definitely recommend this. 

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Vampiress Review: "Teeth and Blood"

The Gist: When an actress ends up dead on a movie set a pair of cops are sent to go undercover to the film in hopes of ID'ing the killer.

Clarification: So what it comes down to is that this is a vampire film so her death wasn't your standard murder.  In fact her death becomes more of a side story being that she immediately turns and the rest of the film deals with her biting and turning everyone else on the movie set who isn't already a vampire.

Selling Point:  A movie that is almost 100% hot women with fangs.  What else?

Female Vampire Factor:  The actress who is murdered/turned "Elizabeth Thornrich" is played by Steffinnie Phrommany

 As you can see a great deal of the film is her attacking people resulting in them turning creating a bit of a sexy vampire army.

(SPOILER ALERT) Despite it being revealed very early in the film that the director of the film is a vampire it ends up being the shy mousy unassuming script supervisor played by former American Idol contestant Danielle Vega.

Who ends up not only being a vampire but being the main one who started all the trouble.

And who on top of that was not shy and mousy but in fact was a sexy vixen just playing herself down so she wouldn't be noticed.

Also to answer the million dollar question.  Yes the hot female lead (played by Michelle Van Der Water)does get turned in the film (though no fangs are ever shown on her).

The film throws you off several times at the start making you believe it's going to be worse than it is (whatever film they're making was going to be pretty bad but it's not revealed right away that you're watching a film within a film) but once the real film gets started you have plenty of eye candy.  In fact probably the best use of it you'll find in the urban vampire horror genre.  Vampire Beauty Rating of 5 out of 5. 

Vampiress Review: Cryptz

The Gist: Three guys are invited to a new strip club by a sexy girl on the street unsuspecting that it is run by a vampire priestess looking for victims.

 Clarification:  Director Danny Draven said of this film that he was inspired by the Grace Jones movie "Vamp" which is very obvious when you see this film.  Unlike Vamp it is much more logical in that the premise is a lot more believable.  Also like Vamp (which is a takeaway for me) it's just as gory which I think as far as vampire films go is pointless. A vampire spraying blood and guts everywhere is like someone going to McDonalds and rubbing a Big Mac all over their mouth but only getting some of it actually in there.  You just aren't going to get much nourishment with that and that's the whole reason vampires have fangs in the first place.

Selling Point: Surprisingly more entertaining than many other movies in the "low budget urban horror" category thanks to some charismatic characters that overshadow some strange and sometimes confusing plot points.

Female Vampire Factor: As in many low budget vampire strip club films the rule of 3 applies here.  You have your tongueless vampire priestess Kulada (played by Ty Badger).

You then have your vampire waitress who seems to not be on the list to get a promotion anytime soon for one reason or another but gets enough scenes to make her worth mentioning played by Olympia Fernandez.

 And finally you have your really hot familiar who is rewarded in the film with immortality for bringing in the three victims which makes her seem not as bad considering as a vampire she has an excuse for being as twisted as she is where she didn't before when she was just killing people for fun named Stesha (played by Lunden De'Leon).

If you're a fan of low budget films in the urban genre this is one of the better ones but as I said that's only compared to others in the genre (which isn't saying much in some cases).  As far as a Vampire Beauty Rating goes, it gets a 3 out of 5.  If you take away the gore it probably would go up to a 4 but even then the film "Vampz" is still the standard for what an enjoyable urban vampire film about strippers or prostitutes is meant to be like.