Vampiress Review: Apostle of Dracula

The Gist: A woman wakes up on a boat with amnesia and as she explores her surroundings starts to piece together that she is a vampire caught between the vampire who turned for wanting her back and hunters wanting to save her. 

Female Vampire Factor:  The main character of the film is Lucy (Nathalie Legosles)

The film starts with her wandering around a city after leaving a boat with no memory of who she is and why she's there, she notices people following her and she gets a strange call from a guy wanting to know where she is. 

From there we get a flashback that the woman we're watching is Lucy, presumably the inspiration for Bram Strokers novel.  The people following her are Dr. Van Helsing and his assistant Seward and the guy on the phone with her is Dracula himself.  

 

From there the film is basically the story of Lucy's relationship with Dracula revealing finally that she is actually a vampire and Van Helsing is trying to save her soul with their last meeting being Lucy trying to seduce and feed on him. 

Back in present time we find that Lucy takes medication to be able to hold her vampire side back but without it she struggles.  Dracula takes her away and lure Van Helsing to them.  Once there Lucy is full on vampire and feeds on Seward as Van Helsing goes after Dracula.

 In the end Dr Van Helsing realizes that Dracula's portrait is his weakness.  He tears the portrait up which weakens Dracula enough for him to stake him through the heart.  This results in Lucy becoming Human again.  

Final Opinion: My main complaint with this film is how long it takes to get to the point.  It's not a very long film but a good portion of the film nothing really happens.  Lots of fancy camera angles and cinematography just to watch people walk or talk basically.  It isn't until about the fifty minute mark where stuff actually happens and that last 20 minutes includes some of the worst fighting scenes you'll ever see.  Despite that I give it a Vampire Beauty rating of 4 out of 5.  Lucy's fang scenes are pretty above average, all 2 of them. If the film was more about her turning and the struggles and not about her amnesia this would be quite memorable. 

Vampiress XXX Review: Night With a Vampire

 

The Gist: A guy and his "friend" end up at a mansion when their car breaks down and soon realize the mistress is a vampire with a taste for her guests. 

Female Vampire Factor:  The main vampire in this film is played by KC Williams

This is a pretty straight forward film.  She has invited a number of people into her home to stay

Then one by one she seduces each one then bites them

Final Opinion:  This is a comedic adult feature which to say the least is just weird.  When your main protagonist is a guy doing an exaggerated Jerry Lewis like high pitched voice with a costar who's a ventriloquists dummy it's hard to take serious.

Williams as a vampiress is pretty much the high point of the film but not enough to make this more than a joke even by early 90's standards 

I give it a Vampire Beauty Rating of 3 out of 5.  If you watch it like most people watch adult films (with the fast forward button handy) it's tolerable. 

  

Vampiress Review: "Teenage Vampire (2021)"

The Gist: When an awkward teenage girl all of a sudden makes the cheerleading squad, her life dramatically changes when the other girls on the squad reveal they are vampires and now she must become one.  

Female Vampire Factor: Chase  (right) and her best friend Pam (left) are the main protagonists of the film. They decide during the beginning of the school year to not turn down any opportunities that year to prevent from being labled prudes and hopefully become popular.  The first invitation comes from the new cheerleading coach who invites them to try out. 

After the tryout Chase makes the team and Pam doesn't. Pam ends up getting offered a team manager position so she can be involved. The new mean girls in the school who also made the squad invite them both to a party at their place to celebrate.  

At the party the popular/mean girls isolate Chase.  The head cheerleader Sin then lets her know there is an initiation she has to go through.  That's when she informs Chase that they're all vampires and she needs to drink blood from a chalice to be one of them, which she does (even though she doesn't believe the vampire story but she wants to fit in).  The remainder of the movie has Chase becoming increasingly popular (as she's magically hot with her glasses off and makeup) while struggling to hold her vampire side back. 

Meanwhile the head cheerleader Sin spends the rest of the film trying to get Chase to leave her human friends behind to be loyal to the vampire cheerleader clique..

Which consists of Sin and her two background minions who follow her everywhere.

After Chase and her friends defeat the vampire cheerleaders they are concerned when Chase doesn't revert to being human again.  That's when the cheerleading coach reveals that she is the head vampire.

At the end of the film Chase and Page go back to their old life of being on the bowling team.  When some guys at the alley taunt them they reveal that they're both vampires (with Page being turned by Sin earlier in the film in an effort to get her to turn on Chase) hissing at the guys scaring at the point that they urinate themselves.

Final Opinion:  I can best describe this as a cross between the really good Halloween vampire episode of Smallville and the film Vamp U but with high schoolers or just an English language version of the Brazilian teen comedy "Chica Vampiro". Especially since it pretty much shares that shows main story of the girl turned vampire who is interested in a boy but deals with blood lust every time she gets close to him.  

I've always been a fan of the "Vampire fangs are an analogy for an erection" angle and this goes all in on that with Chase even having to basically hide and having to be taught to think about old people bowling to get them to retract.  I highly recommend this one.  It's cheesy but in a good way.  This is an easy Vampire Beauty Rating of 5 out of 5. 

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