Director: Les Sekely
Release date: 1997
Contains spoilers
I’ve used the title for this film above although, in terms of content, it is fairly meaningless. Indeed the alternate title of Vampire Time Travellers, Part One: Bite her in the Butt is much more descriptive – though luckily there was never a part two - there is an apparent prequel and we'll cover that.
This is a straight to video 90s flick that is comedic in design (if not in outcome consistently or often) and relies on strangeness to underpin its very thin plot. That said I have seen worse.
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| Jillien Weisz as Lorelei |
We start with an intertitle that states that “Some years ago, the Alpha Omega Sorority was being terrorized by a vampire named Natalia. She was eventually destroyed.” The next intertitle says, “But, Natalia had a sister…” That sister was called Lorelei (Jillien Weisz) and we see her having killed a woman (Alexandra Raines Lewinson) and then turning her attention to her roommate (Adriene Nichols). Suddenly the killed one sits up, possessed by something. She speaks magic words and the living roommate vanishes (thrown forward a short way through time) and has called locals who put Lorelei in a coffin and seal it with a cross.
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| cross on coffin |
Five years on and Sue Ann Marie (J.J. Rodgers, Sorority House Vampires from Hell), known as Sam, is going to pledge for Alpha Omega. Her sister was a member; indeed, she is the Sorority Sister mentioned in the intertitles, called Buffy. Just to note therefore that Sorority House Vampires from Hell would appear top be the prequel to this. Rodgers is uncredited in the role of Sue Ann in the later film, and the main characters are Buffy and Natalia. It is also worth noting that this film came out the same year as the Buffy the Vampire Slayer series. At the same time someone encourages two young lads, who are reading mucky magazines, to go to the old Crenshaw Place to get more magazines. They remove the cross from Lorelei’s coffin.
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| stalking Sam |
And so, Natalia (we only see a fanged mouth, as she is on the other side, and she is not credited) wants Lorelei to get revenge – by killing Sam. She goes to the pledge night and goes after Sam but can’t bite her as she is related to someone who vanquished a vampire and, therefore, Lorelei needs to feed more to be powerful enough to attack her. So, she attacks the other pledges starting with musician Zoe (Kat Facchino, Vampire Night) who she attacks in the shower. This is an excuse for some T&A, of course, but it is the only such in the film so it wasn’t overly gratuitous with the use of such scenes. She can’t bite Zoe either, as the five years have considerably weakened her and is informed that the only spot a weak vampire can bite a victim is on the butt.
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| in sunlight |
Eventually all the pledges have been turned and Sam has to take them all on – this is with the help of a vampire hunter disguised as a Light Man (Jimmy Jerman, also Sorority House Vampires from Hell & Vampire Night) an electrician and also something else… However, things are a little bit sketch show (as we move between characters and their dreams/fantasies/memories) and pretty surreal (though not necessarily artistically so). It isn’t great but there are a lot worse films out there. There isn’t particularly any sfx to write home about and the acting is all at a strictly straight to video level.
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| destroyed |
As for vampire lore, again there isn’t much – sunlight kills as does a stake through the heart and Buffy’s hammer and stake are with a grimoire that has the time travel spell – useful for moving vampires forward in time into daylight. The burnt makeup was poor but the charred vampire effect looked quite good. However, a twist where a character is actually a vampire is undermined by us seeing her sat in daylight at the start of the film. Crosses ward vampires off and Lorelei can turn into a bat 25% of the time – but also accidentally turns into a range of objects/creatures that rhyme with bat. 2.5 out of 10.
The imdb page is here.
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