Vampiress Review: "Gravebit"

The Gist: After a vampire slayer saves a doctors daughter from a vampire who was feeding on her at night he along with the girls sister go hunting for the source of the vampires.

Female Vampire Factor: In Episode 3 titled "House Call" the slayer finally catches the night stalking vampire in the act. She is then run off and staked in Episode 4 "The Hunt".

In Episode 6 "Worse Than Worst" a group of amateur hunters corner a vampire and are quickly outmatched by her.

 In Episode 7 "Last Chance" The group after killing one vampire is met with a group of vampires to deal with.

In Episode 8 "A Fate Sealed" The vampire queen Carmella presents herself to the vampire hunter Dayton.  Meanwhile her brood goes to attack the rest of the crew.

In Episode 9 "Ghost Town" The vampires lour Abigails sister Laura to them and feeds on her in front of Abigail.

In Episode 10 "Carmella" the crew of vampire slayers track down the vampires layer in order to take them out while Dayton is presented and seduced by the real Carmella.

Final Opinion:  This is a 10 part web series where each episode only runs roughly 5 minutes in length followed by one of the characters giving a blog related to the episode afterword.  The only real complaint I have regarding it is that the last episodes attempt at drama felt real forced as the amateur vampire slayers characters weren't really built up enough for anything happening to them to really draw an emotional response not to mention you're literally told during the earlier episodes they're not good at what they do which pretty much foreshadows "don't get attached".  I give it a Vampire Beauty Rating of 3 out of 5.  Might have gotten a 4 if Abigail or her sister Laura would have turned.

Vampiress Review: "Ekimmu: The Dead Lust"

The Gist: A Couple is haunted by visions after helping a young woman stranded in the middle of nowhere who ends up being a murder victim returned from the dead as a vampire.

Female Vampire Factor: So a couple pick up a girl named Sarah who was reported missing and take her home after finding her bloody on the side of the rood.  They take her home where as soon as the female of the couple "Beth" leaves Sarah begins to seduce the guy "Steven".

Eventually Beth catches this they argue (in fact they argue a good majority of the film) Beth leaves.  Eventually Sarah calls to Beth giving very vague hints of a previous life.  Apparently she was a girl named Mary who was murdered by her boyfriend via strangulation.  If you forget don't worry, about 25% of this film is repeated showing of the same strangulation scene. Got to pad that run time.

 From here Beth is now missing (having been turned) and Steven is looking for her.

 He eventually gets the help of Sarah's father who gives a rather vague and cryptic explanation of what's going on but none of it matters because vampire ghost Beth lours him straight to them and they make short work of Steven and they all live happily ever after.

Final Opinion: This is very much a skippable film.  They had an idea but definitely wasn't clear on how to go about putting it on film resulting in a movie with A.D.D., conflict for the sake of conflict and subplots that are just thrown in just to have something happening that never get addressed or paid off at any point. I give it a Vampire Beauty Rating of 2 out of 5. Only reason it doesn't get one is due to fangs being in at the least the final segments of the film but otherwise the films is mostly people cussing at each other and the same strangeling scene over and over.

Vampiress Review: "Beautiful Vampire"

The Gist:  A vampire who works as a makeup artist has trouble controlling her bloodlust around her landlords son.

Female Vampire Factor:  Ran (Jung Yeon-Joo) is a 500 year old vampire who lives life as a makeup artist.  One day a young man comes to her shop in need of getting makeup done for an audition as he is an inspiring actor.

When Ran gets close to him the scent of his blood reminds her of someone from her past resulting in her losing control.  The first time they meet she almost bites him but her landlord comes in just in time though she believes (as does he) that her intentions were to make a move on him and not drink his blood.

The landlord doesn't like this and her and Ran make a deal that if she stays away from her son she'll get a discount on her rent.

 This is easier said than done as he develops feelings for her and won't leave her alone and it becomes harder and harder for her to resist his sent.

Final Opinion: The "well rounded female vampire obsessed with the human that she needs to avoid that leads to weird interactions" romcom is something that is pretty common place in Asian film and TV and this film doesn't add anything new to it.  This is definitely more romance comedy than it is horror which in all honesty this has zero horror elements.  Ran does not show fangs in the film and there is only one bite scene.   I give it a Vampire Beauty Rating of 1 out of 5. 

Beautiful Vampire - Korean Movie - Main Trailer from HanCinema on Vimeo.