Director: Charles Band
Release date: 2025
Contains spoilers
It really seems like the guys at Full Moon Features have given up trying. That’s somewhat unfair, there is some original material coming out, but the mash up of other films continues. This time, a little like Haunted Hotties, it takes from a variety of films and splices them together in a Frankensteinian nightmare (and by that I mean a mess, not a thing of terror). For the record I spotted footage from The Dead Want Women, Trophy heads, Killer Eye: Halloween Haunt, Evil Bong 666 and Decadent Evil 2 - of course, there might have been others.
The IMDb blurb says: “Hollywood realtors Danni and Reese close the biggest deal of their lives and throw a party. But the previous owners still occupy a tunnel system beneath the house and are having a party of their own. The bad news? The hosts are vampires.” This is mostly inaccurate to the lumbering monster they have created and mostly lifts from the footage carved from The Dead Want Women (which hasn’t got vampires in it). Danni (Ariana Madix) and Reese (Jessica Morris) are realtors and have just sold a mansion that no-one has been able to sell. They are cleaning it up as they wait for the buyer and then…
Then we start flipping through scenes from the different films. Some of them feature recurrences of Madix and Morris as a variety of characters. However, the stories don’t gel generally and the scenes from any one film might be moved out of sequence to the source narrative. It is a big old mess. Now, I do like a good non-linear narrative – emphasis on good. To achieve this, in a way that holds your viewer, requires excellent writing, direction and editing. This film is edited in a butcher’s shop. It makes so little sense that it genuinely might give a viewer a headache. Still, there are vampires, thanks to the Decadent Evil 2 footage used, which comes towards the end of the film. I cannot recommend this and suggest that you would be better seeking out the original films. 0 out of 10.
The imdb page is here.
On Demand @ Amazon US
On Demand @ Full Moon via Amazon UK
It really seems like the guys at Full Moon Features have given up trying. That’s somewhat unfair, there is some original material coming out, but the mash up of other films continues. This time, a little like Haunted Hotties, it takes from a variety of films and splices them together in a Frankensteinian nightmare (and by that I mean a mess, not a thing of terror). For the record I spotted footage from The Dead Want Women, Trophy heads, Killer Eye: Halloween Haunt, Evil Bong 666 and Decadent Evil 2 - of course, there might have been others.
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| red vampire eyes |
The IMDb blurb says: “Hollywood realtors Danni and Reese close the biggest deal of their lives and throw a party. But the previous owners still occupy a tunnel system beneath the house and are having a party of their own. The bad news? The hosts are vampires.” This is mostly inaccurate to the lumbering monster they have created and mostly lifts from the footage carved from The Dead Want Women (which hasn’t got vampires in it). Danni (Ariana Madix) and Reese (Jessica Morris) are realtors and have just sold a mansion that no-one has been able to sell. They are cleaning it up as they wait for the buyer and then…
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| bite |
Then we start flipping through scenes from the different films. Some of them feature recurrences of Madix and Morris as a variety of characters. However, the stories don’t gel generally and the scenes from any one film might be moved out of sequence to the source narrative. It is a big old mess. Now, I do like a good non-linear narrative – emphasis on good. To achieve this, in a way that holds your viewer, requires excellent writing, direction and editing. This film is edited in a butcher’s shop. It makes so little sense that it genuinely might give a viewer a headache. Still, there are vampires, thanks to the Decadent Evil 2 footage used, which comes towards the end of the film. I cannot recommend this and suggest that you would be better seeking out the original films. 0 out of 10.
The imdb page is here.
On Demand @ Amazon US
On Demand @ Full Moon via Amazon UK
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