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 young couple spends the weekend with an excentric woman at her desert home who in reality is a vampire who's hundreds of years old.
Clarification: This is one of those movies that probably made more sense in the 1970's than it does in today's society but at the same time shows how stuffy we've become. Considering the film pretty much follows the repetitious formula of couple + vampire go on site seeing adventure, girl of couple decides to stay behind while vampire and guy walk off to attempt a quick roll in the hay but gets stopped when girl of couple gets attacked by random animal (then again this film wasn't very popular in the 70's either). The thing that separates it from something made today is the fact that a woman being cheated on pretty much has the same amount of importance to her as eating the last yogurt in the refrigerator (unless you really like yogurt). She's very well aware of whats going on and is upset by it but more because she's jealous of him more than hurt over her husband wanting another woman. In other words, this would never end up on Lifetime.
Female Vampire Factor: Your vamp in this film is Diane Lefanu played by the lovely Celeste Yarnall.
The problem with this film is she really isn't much of a vampire at all. She doesn't have fangs, not only can she come out in the daytime but lives in the desert and only functions during the day. In fact the only supernatural thing about her is that she doesn't age. Otherwise she's just a weird and very horny lady who the couple has sex dreams about and who the guy of the couple spends 70% of the movie trying to have sex with unsuccessfully due to his wife's inability to stay out of trouble. Since it barely qualifies as a vampire movie at all I give this film a Vampire Beauty Rating of 1 out of 5. At best it can be categorized as a VERY slow moving softcore porn complete with awful ending.
So here it is. I've been covering this film since the project was announced last October and now we have our first trailer.
The straight to DVD movie which has a tentative release date of October 1st in the United States has been subject to a lot of speculation as all reports of the plot left a major grey area as far as what the premise could be. Was it a direct remake of the 1988 sequal starring Julie Carmen? Was it a straight to DVD reboot of the franchise or was it a retelling of the original story with a twist? Well by what this trailer gives us the answer to all those questions is YES.
So seemingly we are pretending Collin Farrell never happened (which for many of us isn't hard to do). Gerri Dandridge is now a MILFY college professor who is a lesbian version of the killer playboy Chris Sarandon played in 1985 and like Carmen is going to use her sex appeal to pretty much get what she wants (and from reports that answer is still Charlies girlfriend "Amy"). If this is true then we can pretty much assume that Sacha Parkinson (Amy) will be dawning the fangs for a brief moment in this film as well (as this trailer hints that the film follows the layout of the 1985 film pretty accurately with Charlie, Ed and Amy running for their lives together the majority of it).
So this brings the question. Does this trailer give you enough that you're willing to give this franchise one more shot?
The Gist: A vampire living as a college professor gets buyers remorse when he turns a female coed into one of the undead once he realizes the evil he unleashed.
Clarification: So the preview (below) makes you believe that the film is about the girls but it in fact is more about the vampire professor who's name just so happens to be Wayne Gretsky. As the story goes he was completely hung up on his one true love but accidentally killed her in a fit of blood lust (or so he thought which we'll get into later). After that moment he could never get his fangs to work up until he set his sites for the first time on Chris who happens to be a dead ringer for his true love Mary. What complicates things much more than the fact that vampire Chris is SUPER evil is the fact that she is also the daughter of Wayne's true love who didn't die after all and has been "living" as a vampire the entire time he thought she was dead.
Trailer
Selling Point: Once the sorority girls become vampires they become VERY slutty
Female Vampire Factor: Taking into account what I've already mentioned regarding the film the whole "Slutty Vampire Sorority" girls portion takes awhile to get started but once it does, it's a pretty good payoff for fans of girls with fangs. For those who have seen the vampire episode of "Smallville" you've pretty much seen this film. The sole reason I can recommend this film is that indeed the female lead is evil...
Julie Gonzalo (Chris Keller/Mary Lipinsky)
Chris starts off as an innocent young college freshman. That all changes when she has an affair with her history professor who sprouts a pair of fangs and bites her in hopes of spending an undead eternity with her feeding off of animal blood (he doesn't feed off of humans). Instead she pretty much does what every female vampire on any episode of "True Blood" does as soon as she gets turned and goes on a long, bloody killing spree. Is it just blood lust that will eventually wear off like every female turn on "The Vampire Diaries?" The answer is NO. She becomes mad with power takes over her sorority turning those willing into vampires and killing the rest and apparently teaches them to use their hotness to bring in victims with the ultimate goal of becoming the leader of a large group of vampires. How evil do you have to be when the vamp that turns you, your vampire mother (Also played by Gonzalo) and your high school sweetheart all come together in hopes of killing you?
So in the end what you basically have is an American answer to the British film "Lesbian Vampire Killers" minus the nudity but with not as weird looking female vampires but just as obnoxious protagonists. My only complaint regarding this film is that it is promoted like it would fall into a similar category as films in the National Lampoon and American Pie franchises (smut filled comedy) but falls short of achieving either at that level. For that it gets a Vampire Beauty Rating of 4 out of 5.
