Vampiress Review: "Midnight Workout"

The Gist: A guy having a late night workout is being stalked by a vampire.

Clarification: Nope, that's all it is.  Literally this is about 6 minutes of a guy working out before the vampiress is even shown and the entire run time of the film is about 9 minutes. 

Biggest Complaint: The payoff is non existent. 

Female Vampire Factor: Eventually you're shown the vampire to be an an attractive blonde (Kelley Anne)

She confronts the guy working out asking him if he needs a spot, fangs exposed (but barely visible).

That's the entire movie.  You see blood and then learn he was a vampire slayer who kills her, taking her fangs as a trophy, the end.  I give it a Vampire Beauty Rating of 1 out of 5.  Definitely skippable but if you have to check it out you can view it HERE.

Vampiress Review: "Living Among Us"

The Gist:  A film crew is sent to document the lives of a family who claims to be vampires.

Clarification: This is one of those films with the first person style story telling from the point of view of a camera person.  Unfortunately the film isn't really done in a manor in which the camera being always on really even makes sense.  In fact most of the films ending is situations in which the last thing you'd do is have a camera in your hand.

As mentioned above the camera crew document the lives of real vampires.  The vampires do some really messed up stuff around the crew basically exposing that they go around gruesomely killing people and eventually the crew realize they're showing them all this damaging info because they don't plan on letting them live.  The climax of the movies is the crew trying to fight their way out of the home

Biggest complaint:  The only fangs are on the cover art.

Female Vampire Factor:  As mentioned above these vampires don't have fangs otherwise they have every other supernatural ability and weakness that you'd expect.  The only female vamp that gets any real screen time is the matriarc of the family Eleanor (Esme Bianco).

  The crew also has an attractive female in it named Carrie (Jordan Hinson) who the younger vampire men take a liking too.  She eventually turns as well but again, no fangs so not that big a deal.

 You aren't going to get much out of this film as none of the protagonists are that likable and the vampires and pretty annoying themselves and come off more as obnoxious 1980's movie bullies than horror monsters.  I give the film a Vampire Beauty Rating of 2 out of 5. A better attempt at the first person horror genre with vampires is "The Monster Project".

Vampiress Review: "Vampira" (1994 Philipino film)

The Gist:  A woman who comes from a family who is cursed to become vampires must find a way to cure her curse after she falls in love.

Clarification:  Philipino movies that's basically just called vampire.  It's very long with an over 2 hour run time and takes forever to get to the good part.  Then when it does it doesn't really last very long and goes back to the not good parts.  Basically woman's family is cursed.  Older member of family who's dying let's younger family members know of curse.  Guy loves the idea of being an undead killer vampire but his sister does not.  Girl falls for a guy and I guess forgets about the whole curse thing until wedding night where she gets caught (by a few people) feeding on animals after losing control just before sex.  This is especially bad because her brother is killing people so they automatically assume it's her.  

Selling Point:  When the girl Paz fangs out it's very very..... OK

Female Vampire Factor:  The main character in the film Cara aka Paz (Marical Soriano) is a vegetarian vampire in that she only feeds on animals.   The thing is she can't really control her urges as vampires in this film tend to fang out at night and transform similar to the stereotypical werewolf turning.

While I absolutely love that and wish more vampire films would be like that they don't actually show her feeding and turning all that often in the film which wastes it (she's usually just seen after she feeds with blood all over herself). I give it a Vampire Beauty Rating of 3 out of 5.  You'd be better watching the film Ang Darling Kong Aswang as far as supernatural fanged women losing control.