The Gist: A group of nursing students find themselves the target of a vampire after helping out a wounded young women who was her mortal enemy.
Clarification: So you have a film with an all female cast about a female vampire who is creating other female vampires. All the women in the cast are hot so you can't go wrong right? WRONG. Sadly this movie is a miss big time which is a shame because I love what the plot was at least supposed to be. Problem #1 is they spend WAY too much time on sub plots that have no bearing on the story whatsoever. One of the girls has an addiction to pills and another is an alcoholic and the alcoholic doesn't like the pill popper. Not only does neither of these issue ever come into play or effect them when its "run for their life" time but the pill addict who spends a good half hour in the beginning of the movie down and out and supposedly going through withdrawal symptoms seems to be instantly heeled with no repercussions when all the scary stuff happens. Basically this was a half an hour of character building that wasn't needed and came down to being downright annoying (mostly due to the combination of bad scripting and horrible acting).
The second issue is the lead vampire was just downright lazy. Had the girls had even some common sense they would have been safe because actually using her vampire abilities seemed to be the last thing on her "things to do list". The idea that only a hand full of people made this film means it does deserve some credit as presentation wise at least it doesn't look majorly low budget despite it being that but its entertainment value is that of a really long "evilwomenmovies" short film.
Selling Point: All female cast (aside from one of the producers relatives playing a drug dealer for 2 seconds of a scene)
Female Vampire Factor: (SPOILER ALERT) Technically all the females in the film get turned but the film is so horribly lit that you can't see much. Combine that with the fact that the girls who do get turned have very cheap looking piranha style fangs.
The only exception to this is the lead vampire Rachel played by the super hot Erika Smith (The Sexy Adventures of Van Helsing). She gets the standard fangs but you only can see them clearly toward the end of the film.
So you have a plot that could work that is pretty much killed by bad acting and the films awkward need to concentrate on sub plots that have no bearing on the story than the actual premise of the movie. This film gets a Vampire Beauty Rating of 3 out of 5.
After four seasons SyFy this past week has announced that they have pulled the plug on the North American version of the series Being Human. This almost a year to the day of the final airing of the British series. While the show has had it's ups and downs this marks another blow as far as vamp media on TV and this year also marks the end of True Blood this upcoming summer. For more about the female vamps who've appeared on the series check my review HERE.
Below is a video of the stars of the series thanking their fans.
The Gist: A small town sheriff tells the story of how his town was over run by vampires.
Clarification: Ok first let me say I laughed as I typed "The gist". Second I have a pretty sick sense of humor so let me explain how this works. This blog has been used for the over 3 years I've been doing it to review every vampire movie, TV show etc I can get my hands on which sometimes means watching complete crap for the sake of coming on here and telling you, the reader, that it is complete crap or best case scenario that it's complete crap but there's a hot vampire doing something sexy with examples so you can decide if it's something you want to see in spite of being complete crap(which has resulted in me getting on a few movie producers "don't send a Christmas card" list BTW while others have actually gone as far as quoting me in ads and helping sponsor this site after I reviewed their work hence the ads on the side). In that time I've developed a bit of a system where there's two kinds of awful movies. Those types are...
Painfully Awful: A movie so terrible that watching it actually hurts. These films are usually watched over the course of a week as to not drive me to a Joker level of insanity. Best example of that would be "Shower of Blood".
Hilariously Awful: A movie so terrible that if the producer of the film actual understood how terrible the film was and decided to promote it as a film parody they'd be considered a genius (If you've ever seen Tommy Wisaeu's "The Room" it's that kind of terrible).
Selling Point: This film had literally everything great about a good comedy parody but the thing was they did it with the intent of this being a legit ACTION/HORROR FILM. This includes but is not limited to
- An extended scene of cops discussing why they're wearing jeans with their uniforms
You guys didn't own any black dress pants to wear for this film either eh?
- Scenes of people having conversations that we could probably hear for ourselves if they didn't have some guy narrating over them talking TELLING US WHAT THEY'RE SAYING!
In this scene Santa is concerned while Mrs Clause is angry with him.
- Non existent film framing letting us know they might not really be where they say they are.
When we're done killing vampires everyone come back to the "police station" for ICE CREAM!
"Sir, don't you think we'd be more efficient if 911 calls weren't being forwarded to my CELL PHONE!"
- Hot lady I'm pretty sure just walked by the park the movie was being shot in and in order to get her phone number they gave her a part in the movie where she basically mimed doing stuff which had absolutely no connection to the story whatsoever which I guess is ok because she completely disappears from the film after her scene.
She was a cop, she was blond and she probably died I guess...yeah we'll say her character died, that works.
- Not as hot but still kinda cute lady who probably did the same thing who's character seemed to know she was important to the plot of the film though the watching audience had never seen her before who tragically died during her first scene which would be a surprise and really sad had we known who she was.
Dedicated to the memory of "Brown haired girl with stick" you left us too soon
- Perve logic
I just got in a fight with a vampire and there's hundreds more. Let me find the nearest creek to randomly pose in my undewear.
- And horribly random editing including fighting scenes LOOPING to make them longer as well as objects being spliced in the scenes (I guess to prove it is what they say it is.)
Ha vampire you thought this was contact solution but it's really HOLY WATER...SEE, IT SAYS RIGHT HERE!
Female Vampire Factor: I don't even know why you've made it this far. That should have sold you the movie right there but if you're still looking for chicks with fangs then yes, they're here in abundance, chicks with fangs, $13 scarecrow subtle glow fangs.
Oh and you can tell the "important to the plot" vampires from the "peon" vampires because the peon ones wear really bad makeup
and the "important ones" (IE will get their face on camera) don't
As far as the main characters go producer Carl Merritt pretty much gives you all their good fangy scenes for free on Youtube.
This clip set includes the head vampire not so ironically named "Vampra" (Amanda Fire) and her minions
This clip set includes (SPOILER ALERT) officer "Layla" (Manda Webster) with her regulation EMT half shirt, underwear and knee high boots that she wears on duty.
The only one they don't give away is SPOILER ALERT officer Marcia Lewis (Sherri Foxx) who also gets turned.
It gets a Vampire Beauty Rating of 4 out of 5 with only the cruddy film quality keeping it from a solid 5. If you get the DVD you also get some decent pictures of Nikki Irene (who plays a random vampire in the film but her one scene gets a lot of screen time) with fangs posing as well so there's a bonus. If I haven't sold you on this film either you don't have a sense of humor like mine or you like really good movies.
