Thursday, May 28, 2020

Bad Girl Dracula – review


Director: Andrew N. Shearer

Release date: 2019

Contains spoilers


From the people who brought us Space Boobs in Space comes a completely vampire focused film and calling this a review is a bit of a cheat because, like the earlier film, I’m no going to score this.

The stars/writers are burlesque artists and form the Gonzoriffic Artists Collective and this is, like the other film we’ve looked at, a Z Grade piece of entertainment that is generated with the aim of creating Z grade schlock. What I did like, however, was the little nods to the wider genre.

Dee Flowered as Bad Girl Dracula
So, after opening with a sepia piece, supposedly in Transylwania (their spelling), where Van Helsing (Kirin Thurman) talks about the evil Bad Girl Dracula (Dee Flowered, Space Boobs in Space), we get the first sketch proper. In it we get a woman, who identifies herself as Laura Williams (Thio Rose), arriving at a building, being pushed into a room by a woman (Tittiana Sprinkles, also Space Boobs in Space) and meeting Bad Girl Dracula (referred to hereafter as BGD). It is revealed that Laura is actually reporter Miranda Soledad – which, of course, is a reversal of the name of the actress famous for Jess Franco’s movies and star of Vampyros Lesbos. They play strip interview (to underwear – this is burlesque after all).

Blacula purse
At the start of the interview Miranda retrieves her recorder from a bag with a picture of Blacula on it. The Master vampire is revealed to be the woman from the start of the sketch and we eventually find out she is called Brinke Stevens named after the Scream Queen. In the second sketch the Master and BGD travel in time so BGD can get a magical item from Sexferatu (Izzie Popp, also Space Boobs in Space) we discover it is a ring said to be capable of luring virgins from their village – absolutely the ring from the Devil’s Wedding Night.

a crap bat moment
Like the earlier film, this does what it set out to – and whether you like it boils down to whether you can stand 80 minutes of z grade sketches with a touch of burlesque. I have to say that Tittiana Sprinkles stole the show as the nonchalant, foul-mouthed Master vampire and we got some crap bat thrown in. It isn’t great viewing but it does what it set out to do and thus has a sense of fun to it.

The imdb page is here.

On Demand @ Amazon US

On Demand @ Amazon UK

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