You may think I’ve gone mad giving this 2010 New Zealand flick, directed by Karl Burnett, an honourable mention rather than a review, especially given the title but, whilst we do get the vampires in this, we actually only get fleeting visitations of them and mostly this green screen driven film apes such serials as the early Flash Gordin series whilst concentrating on Captain Amazingly Incredible (Roy Snow).
It starts, however, with Detective Jack Spartan (Karl Burnett, My Grandpa is a Vampire) who is in the city looking to get smokes and a newspaper. Unfortunately, the news seller (Tarun Mohanbhai) doesn’t seem to understand him, Spartan notes that he is speaking in an Indian accent also. Suddenly he hears a scream and finds Tallulah Diamond (Katherine Hubbard) who says she has something in her eye.
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| Captain, Spartan and Tallulah |
They fish out a tennis ball (yes, it is that surreal) when the news seller appears, and he has fangs. Spartan’s garlic breath causes him to vanish and, realising that there may be thousands of vampires, the pair run to Spartan’s HQ. Spartan wonders what could be turning folk into Punjabi vampires and calls in Captain Amazingly Incredible. He realises that the evil doctor called The Evil Doctor (Nicko Vella), from The Evil Planet is behind this dastardly plot and they head into space to stop him.
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| Nicko Vella as The Evil Doctor |
Later we discover that The Evil Doctor created a virus from alien vampire bats to turn people but his son Brogor (Grant Roa) is somewhat clumsy and spilt a curry into the virus vat hence the victims turned becoming Punjabi vampires. It is all surreal and we only see another couple of vampires briefly. The method of filming gives the film a graphic novel feel and the delivery is deliberately camp but we do get a fleeting vampire visitation.
The imdb page is here.
On DVD @ Amazon US
On DVD @ Amazon UK
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