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Enter a world filled with gothic castles, nubile beauties in various
stages of undress, and predatory vampires, with haunting music and
images bound to linger in your nightmares. Bet you can't take just
one bite! These adult fairy tales of the monstrous and mysterious
represent three of Rollin's finest achievements. Includes his controversial
first "banned" film, "Rape of the Vampire,"
the outrageously colorful "Shiver of the Vampires," and
his biggest box office hit, "Requiem for a Vampire," also
known as "Caged Virgins" and "Virgins and Vampires."
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Vampire's Kiss Oscar® winner Nicolas Cage is “amazing”
(The New Yorker) in this outrageous, erotically charged thriller
about a womanizing New York executive who becomes convinced that
he’s a vampire when one of his conquests bites his neck in
the throes of passion. Jennifer Beals (Devil in a Blue Dress) sizzles
as the femme fatale who sets Cage on his batty course in this darkly
funny, “lively, imaginative fantasy” (Los Angeles Times)! |
Vampires: Los Muertos Color, Closed Captioned, Widescreen Edition,
English Soundtrack, English Subtitles, French Subtitles, Dir/Cast
Commentary, Dolby Digital 5.1, Runtime 93 minutes, Rated R, item
#DDCO07823 |
Tsui Hark's Vampire Hunters Color, Closed Captioned, Widescreen
Edition, English Soundtrack, French Soundtrack, English Subtitles,
French Subtitles, Dolby Digital 5.1, Runtime 90 minutes, Rated R,
item #DDCO09545 |
Vampire Happening
Sexy American movie star Betty Williams (Pia Degermark from Elvira
Madigan) flies to Transylvania to get a gander at her ancestral castle.
While touring the torture chamber (which inspires kinky fantasies)
and the family vault, she inadvertently unleashes her randy grandmother,
Clairamonda, an ancient vampire and a brunette double to blonde Betty.
A clumsy wig-swapping, door-slamming farce ensues, with Betty seducing
a local schoolteacher, Clairamonda feasting on local lascivious monks,
and a climactic vampire orgy at a bloodsuckers' ball where Betty finds
herself the only fresh plasma in the building. Less a hippie vampire
tale than a sexploitation knockoff of Roman Polanski's The Fearless
Vampire Killers, this West German comedy features a spoofing performance
from Ferdie Mayne, the vampire king from Polanski's film, as a groovy
Dracula with an eye for female flesh. Former Hammer director and master
cinematographer Freddie Francis shows little facility for comedy and
exhibits none of his cinematographic skills in this crude but fitfully
amusing farce. The leering performances make Benny Hill look subtle,
the slapstick gags are undercut by indifferent execution, and the
entire production lumbers under bad makeup and atrocious dubbing.
Degermark, however, proves to be a good sport, giving a spirited performance
while disrobing at almost every turn, and Mayne has a blast in an
over-the-top turn as a deliciously decadent bloodsucker. |
Vampire in Brooklyn
Eddie Murphy teamed up with shockmeister Wes Craven to make this stale
attempt at a horror-comedy. Murphy had the right idea, because the
concept is intriguing: He plays a vampire from the Caribbean fulfilling
a prophecy to rejoin his vampire queen, who turns out to be a Brooklyn
cop (Angela Bassett) who is half-bloodsucker but doesn't understand
the impulses being awakened in her. Bassett is a seductive presence
and Murphy looks the part: sleek, inviting, and spooky. But Craven,
perhaps the most overrated horror director working, can't handle comedy--at
least not intentionally--and his idea of horror here is extravagant
(and not particularly convincing) makeup |
Vampirella
Review: Alright, so Vlad only wants to destroy one planet. We've still
got a good action/adventure story where the female is more than just
a doll. The quality is much superiour to what one might expect, although
the acting is a little uneven in places, the suspense does not build
up as much as the concept would promise, and the special effects are
a little on the economical side (better than BBC but nowhere near
Babylon 5 standards.) The storyline is great, the dialog is well-written,
and the actors are convincing most of the time. |
Vampires
Talk about an opening. The first few minutes of John Carpenter's Vampires--in
which James Woods's vampire killer leads a dawn raid on a New Mexico
"goon nest" of bloodsuckers--not only suggests a horror movie that
will not pull any punches, it even evokes some of the more disturbing
dream-memories of American Westerns. Muscular and uncompromised, the
sequence suggests a new Carpenter classic unraveling before one's
eyes. Well, dream on. Things don't quite work out that way, but this
is still a film to reckon with. There are a few serious (and surprising)
misjudgments on the director's part, particularly a mishandling of
Sheryl Lee's role as a prostitute poisoned by the bite of a "master
vampire" (who pretty much wiped out Woods's team of goon terminators).
But aside from some weaknesses, the action is jolting, the suggested
complicity of the Catholic Church in destroying monsters is provocative,
and the traces of Howard Hawks's continuing influence on Carpenter's
storytelling are in evidence |
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