Vampiress XXX Review: "Girlsway's Vampires"

The Gist:  A girl and her blind sister move to a new town where she gets turned into a vampire after meeting up with a girl on an online dating site.

Clarification: Girlsway is a site dedicated to very high quality lesbian based porn and this is an ongoing 5 part mini series.  There's honestly nothing original about it as it pretty much has the same storyline as the first two Lost Boys films but with lesbians. 

Selling Point: Very high quality movie as opposed to your sex scenes with a slight hint of a storyline that has become commonplace.  Also membership in this site gives you access to their other films including my personal favorite horror porn they've done, the lesbian sex zombie mini series The Turning which is very vampire like in itself.

Female Vampire Factor: The one takeaway I have with this is that they're energy vampires (basically a succubus) so no fangs or blood drinking.  Basically they have sex with their victims and as their victims orgasm they absorb the persons life force via mouth transfer that looks like purple smoke. Though they do have nice contacts when they get hungry and Melissa Moore in her sex scenes does get very animalistic as she gets hungrier. The mini series is split into five parts.

Episode one is the longest of the episodes.  Lucy (Abigail Mac) and her blind sister Ella (Shyla Jennings) move into their dads vacation home in California where Ella is excited to touch pine trees and smell the air.  After moving in Lucy heads to a dating ap where she matches with Willow (Melissa Moore).  After exchanging naughty pics Lucy heads to Willows house.  After Lucy tells Willow about her blind sister she seems very nervous about waking up her family while Lucy just wants sex.  We eventually find out unbeknownst to Lucy that Willow and her family are a brood of vampires and her sisters (Carter Cruise & Georgia Jones) insist on feeding on her.  Willow instead convinces her mother (Jelena Jensen) to turn her in exchange for her own freedom (as only so many vampires can be free at one time).

In Episode 2 Lucy wakes up and heads back home where she gets very ill much to the concern of her sister.  When Ella insists on Lucy letting her in to help, Lucy gets very hungry.  This results in Lucy seducing and having sex with Ella and attempting to feed on her.  Luckily she is stopped by the cross Ella was wearing and they have a heart to heart where Ella vows to help Lucy with her issue.

Ella gets a phone call warning her that the brood who turned Lucy is looking for her and are on their way.  They turn to a vampire hunter named Vanessa (Serena Blair) for help but have to convince her that Lucy isn't a threat once she learns the truth about her.  Once she's convinced the hunter explains that her issue can be reversed if they kill the head vampire. Before they can do this Lucy will need to feed and Serena volunteers. 

Lucy and Ella along with vampire hunter Vanessa go to the vampires home to burn it to the ground.  Eventually Lucy gets separated from the other two and captured by Anya along with her recently awoken vampire daughter Angelica (Angela White) who have their way with Lucy and it's up to Serena and Ella to rescue her.

In the final chapter of the mini series Anya goes after the sisters in revenge of what they have just done to her home and Angelica.  Anya's plan is to separate the sisters and go after the more vulnerable of the two - the blind and human Ella.  With no one to rescue her it's up to Ella to resist the vampires powers and not become her newest daughter.

It is very well done from a story telling perspective and most of the acting isn't actually bad (other than Shyla Jennings who comes of very stereotypical as far as porn acting goes.)  I give it a vampire beauty rating of 3 out of 5.  The scene in part 1 between Jelena Jenson and Melissa Moore is easily the highlight of the series.

In fact after part 1 the rest is somewhat disappointing.

Vampiress Review: "Underworld: Blood Wars"

The Gist: After years of hunting her the vampires are desperate and want her to come back to the fold to help train the next generation of death dealers but a pair of rogue vampires sabotage the reunion.

Clarification: At this point in the series the idea of continuity is pretty much thrown out the window. The beginning of these films are not only used as a form of recap but to explain exactly why nothing that happened in the previous films will really be addressed in the one you're about to watch other than having flashbacks as time filler since the actors from those films aren't in it.

Basically this continues the vampire snow white story that they keep recycling for the franchise.  Selene is the greatest thing since sliced bread and someone is jealous so they frame her so that the vampire higher ups believe she's turned on her own kind and she has to clear her name.

Selling Point: Recycled storyline or not it's a pretty good action/adventure franchise.

Female Vampire factor: Of course we know of Selene played by Kate Beckinsale.

The main antagonist of the film who plays the "wicked queen" role is Semira played by Lara Pulver

 Also with her is a vampiress named Alexia played by Daisy Head who is herself a double agent as she is conspiring against both sides with her lover who is a Lycan which as seen below doesn't get her too far.

Finally Selene has a vampiress on her side as well in the form of the healer and teleporter Lena played by Clemintine Nicholson

This film is easily the best use of female vampires in the entire franchise so I'll give it a Vampire Beauty Rating of 4 out of 5.  Still more of a Lord of the Rings style fantasy adventure than anything horror related and it still doesn't make sense to me that werewolves and vampires depend on firearms and weapons but it could be much worse.  While the film does end with a hint that a spinoff franchise is coming it seems that it will more likely be on the small screen and the Selene story may be over.

Vampiress XXX Review: "Cathula 2: Vampires of Sex"

The Gist: Various ghouls, demons and the devil bring female victims to the Vampiress Cathula

Clarification: This film has less plot than the last one and that's saying something considering how little plot the last one had.  In fact there is very little carry over from that film whatsoever.   Basically it's almost two and a half hours of non stop sex and orgies with dark horror backgrounds involving actors with altered voices with an attempt at a movie in the first 10 and last 20 minutes.  You honestly could go the entire film without knowing it's a vampire movie which is how little that aspect is even acknowledged after the first 20 minutes or so of attempted plot involving the resurrection of Cathula.

Selling Point: The lesbian scenes are the only really watchable parts of the movie which pretty much make up half of it.

Female Vampire Factor: On top of the above point about the quality of the lesbian scenes, the one around the 40 minute mark of the film is literally the only one in which the women show any fang at all despite the fact that this film is supposed to be about women being turned into vampires as both women have fangs out the entire scene.

Other than that the only other time you see a woman with fangs in this vampire movie is the very last scene in which Cathula (Cathy Berry) fangs out into the camera.

Lack of a linear story pretty much kills the enjoyment factor of this franchise for me.  I get it's a porn and you're only supposed to watch it for sex but when you attempt a plot, just kind of tossing it around and throwing in effects and edits for the sake of doing it, that hurts it more than helps it.  It's almost as if watching the first and the second hours are almost two different movies (and had the whole movie been similar to the last part of it the film would have been much more enjoyable).  In fact, edit this movie down to an hour centering it around the Cathula scenes and adding a scene set up or two would make this movie pretty good.  I give it a Vampire Beauty rating of 2 out of 5.