Vampiress TV review: First Kill

First Kill is a Netflix original series which debuted in 2022.  The story revolves around two teenage girls.  One a vampire named Julliette and one a monster slayer named Calliope.  Both are going through a kind of puberty for their kind in which getting their first kill will launch them into adulthood.  

By chance they end up targeting each other for that but botched it during a round of spin the bottle. 

In the throws of passion Julliette bites Calliope leaving herself open for Calliope to stake her but neither get the kill as Calliope runs away before confirming the kill. 

To make matters worse they fall for each other when Calliope begins questioning her clans blind hatred of vampires when Julliette goes out of her way to save her from the rest of the vampires.  This leads to a rift between the two girls and their families launching a supernatural Romeo & Juliette story. 

Julliette is one of those "vampires that really doesn't want to be one and just wants to be a normal girl" vamps.  She comes from a line of first generation vampires which is why she can walk in the daylight and wasn't killed when staked through the heart. She tries to hold back her vampire urges through taking blood pills but much like regular puberty she has issues keeping her fangs in in emotional situations. 

Thow everyone in her family are vampires with the family being described as a matriarch (vampire leadership being passed from mother to daughter)

 there is only one in the family that falls into vampire in the traditional sense (meaning she openly stalks and feeds during the series) and that's Juliettes older sister Elinor.

Elinor is the prototypical upper class debutont Barbie.  While she does come off very cold overall everything she does is in an effort to protect her little sister including seducing, biting then hypnotizing townspeople to cover up a murder she believedJulliette did. 

Then when she found out Juliette hadn't had her first kill doing everything in her power to help her sister kill while covering it up to the family that it hadn't happened. 
  

Though at the end of the day her motivations are all selfish as she's only truly thinking about how her sister being shunned would affect her standing in the family. 

Final Opinion:  I don't have too many complaints about season 1.  When I first heard the premise I thought it would be a bit corny and overwhelmingly teenage girl angsty ala Twilight or the web series Carmella but was pleasantly surprised to find a well balanced horror drama. I definitely recommend it. Unfortunately in August of 2022 even with a very loyal fanbase Netflix announced the show would be cancelled after only 1 season.

 

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. 

Vampiress Episode: "Creepshow"

"Sibling Rivalry"
Season 2
Episode 3

 

 

Creepshow is an anthology type series based on the movie of the same name from 1982.  In this episode a young girl named Lola (Maddie Nichols) tells her school counselor that she's afraid that her brother is trying to kill her. 

She recaps her prior week and his weird behavior.  When the counselor doesn't believe her she goes home just for her brother to once again try to kill her with an ax.  When she says how she'll tell their parents he explains that their parents are dead and she killed them. She then remembers that she fed on her mother after a hug.

Then attacked her father when he was offering her breakfast.

Then she eventually remembers that her friend bit her while she was sleeping during a sleepover the week before which is when she must have been turned. 

The siblings decide to call a truce and that Lola's friend Grace who turned her should be the one to die. Lola ends up turning her brother Andrew then after they kill Grace the episode ends with them going after the school counselor.