Sunday, August 2, 2020

Vampiress Review: "Legend of the Unknown 1: Awakening Abilities"


The Gist: A loser accidentally ingests a fluid which gives him the powers of a vampire/werewolf hybrid and he must use his newly found powers to save the girl of his dreams from her drug dealing boyfriends gang mates.

Female Vampire Factor: Only one.  The protagonist of the film after being fired from his job goes to a park to sulk and ends up accidentally coming in between a fight between a female vampire and a werewolf that was happening there.  The blood concoction he ingests was around the fem vamps neck.

Final Opinion: So this is pretty much a Chinese superhero origin story as the film ends with the films protagonist who is obsessed with superhero's figuring out his powers during the rescue of the girl of his dreams Fang Fang and using them to fight crime once she leaves town after the incident.  Personally everything up to that point is pretty hard to watch as all the stuff before the end rescue comes off as an annoying comedy as the guy is pretty much worthless before that and often putting himself in cringe worthy situations due to his social awkwardness.  Anyway that one quick fight scene above is the only appearance of a female vampire so I give it a Vampire Beauty Rating of 1 out of 5.

Vampiress Review: "Monster Mash"

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113105/

The Gist: Two teens after their car breaks down in a storm end up in a mansion inhabited by a mad scientists and a bunch of very lonely monsters.

Female Vampire Factor: There are four in the film.  The main vampires are Dracula and his wife Natasha.  Natasha is played by former soap star Sarah Douglas.
Dracula and Natasha are having marital trouble as Natasha is convinced (rightfully so) that Dracula has eyes for other women.  This thought of course being confirmed since he always has three scantily clad brides with him that act as backup singers (one of which being In Living Color Fly Girl Carrie Ann (far left).
As far as the vampirism goes the "Draculettes" are the only women to actually fang out in the film which happens during Dracula's dance number "Old Eternity Blues".

Final Opinion: So this is a movie version of a stage play based on the 1967 hit song Monster Mash by Bobby "Boris" Picket who himself stars as Dr. Victor Frankenstein in the film.  The script was updated for present day (in this case 1995) and consists of a lot of dated jokes based on pop culture references of the time. I give the film a Vampire Beauty Rating of 2 out of 5.  The damsel in distress of the film played by Full house star Candace Cameron does get bit by Dracula but she does not turn leaving the Draculettes being the films only real vampire T&A.

Vampiress Review: "My Best Friend is a Vampire"

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095684/

The Gist: A young man after a one night stand with a vampiress struggles with being a teenager while turning to a vampire himself and avoiding a pare of vampire slayers.

Female Vampire Factor: The vampire that turns poor Jeremy is the very attractive Nora (Cecilia Peck)
She ends up seducing Jeremy in some very sexy lingerie
 Eventually she gets him in the bed and before he knows it she's biting him.
Shortly after this two slayers burst in and go after her while Jeremy escapes.
While it's hinted at that they destroyed her Nora makes an appearance at the end of the movie along with several other female vampires who capture and turn the vampire slaying doctor in order to save Jeremy.

Final Opinion: Nora the Vampire is hot, Unfortunately she only make 4 appearance.  Once in the opening dream sequence, once where Jeremy delivers groceries to her, the eventual bite scene and then the films finale.  Even more disappointing she does not fang out at all in the film (Jeremy is the only vampire in the film to fang out).  I give it a Vampire Beauty Rating of 2 out of 5.  There is no danger of this taking the "must see awkward teen boy is seduced and turned into a vampire by a hot older woman film" award from Once Bitten but on it's own it's an enjoyable comedy.