Release date: 2014*
Director: Jeff Leroy
Contains spoilers
From the director who brought us Dracula in a Women’s Prison this is a throwback to those heady 80s and 90s and perhaps mentioning it owing a little something to the likes of Fred Olen Ray will give an idea of what we are getting. However, first a note about the date.
*The IMDb page said still in production when I wrote this, with no date. I stumbled over it on Fawesome, watched and screenshotted it for review, but when I went back later to check a detail it was no longer available. Whether it will return to the platform I couldn’t say. But whilst posting I noticed it is now on Amazon with a 2014 date, unusually Amazon seems to have it right on this occasion. It also needs to be said that, despite the title, there is no Dracula in this film.
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| getting home |
It starts in Black and White (in the 50s) and Ward (Robert Rhine, Dracula in a Women’s Prison) is getting home from work. A woman (Kelly Erin Decker, Also Dracula in a Women’s Prison & Bloodsucka Jones vs. The Creeping Death) stands in the street, looking oddly at him, but he shrugs any bad feeling away and goes in the house. He is met by his wife, Eva (Nicole Laino), and reveals he picked up a home shot film reel on the way home. Eva sees the woman staring through a window and there is a knock at the door.
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| attack |
Opening it they see the woman, she seems injured and says she hurt herself and then repeating that she can’t find her way home. The phone is out (and the phone seemed anachronistic, but not as much as the keypad by the door) and Ward goes to call an ambulance from a neighbour’s house. Alone with Eva, the woman vamps out and attacks and then attacks Ward when he gets home. Eva manages to take her out with a shotgun but, when their daughter gets home, she has turned, is feeding off Ward’s corpse and tells her daughter to run.
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| playing with the spark |
Cut to the modern day and Murdock (Michael Beardsley) has been daydrinking and been picked up by sorority members Annabel (Missy Martinez) and Scarlet (Jacqueline Fae, Erotic Vampires of Beverley Hills & Haunted Hotties). They get him back to the house, strip, tease and then start sucking the life out of him, which causes a physical decline and eventually they pull something glowing out of him - I assume an essential spark – and take turns running it over their bodies. Once it burns out, Eva comes in – she runs the sorority from her old home, and the energy vampirism is described as cleaner than the traditional way.
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| Alejandra Morin as Holly |
Eva wants to get new pledges and Holly (Alejandra Morin) has tried the other sororities and found them to be too “trust-fund”. Her friend, Lilith (Antoinette Mia Pettis), is not as interested but is going along with her. When Eva meets her she realises that there is something special about Holly's blood – Eva’s blood was special and she evolved as a vampire, for instance she can stand sunlight. Holly’s blood could propel them to the next evolution. There is still the hazing though, plus Annabel is wanting to set up her own sorority and concentrate on hot boys. Plus, Holly’s boyfriend happens to be friends with Murdock and another friend, Felix (Michael Dougherty), has had a run in with Annabel and Scarlet before…
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| through a camera |
Other interesting lore, beyond Eva's daywalking, includes seeing Annabel bite a wound and then sniff blood from a distance, and looking at the vampires through a phone camera makes them show as skeletons (and silicon breasts show up too). This does things as the title would indicate; there is plenty of topless nudity, the plot is secondary to this in many respects and the practical effects show their budget – including the CGI blood spatter, which looks bad as per normal. And yet, there was something about this that kept my attention. Perhaps it was the 80s throwback and like Leroy’s previous vampire flick it doesn’t have pretension to be anything else. 5 out of 10.
The imdb page is here.
On Demand @ Amazon US
On Demand @ Amazon UK
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