Female vampires once ruled the world. Now they are overlooked for glittering guys with big hair. It's time to point out why the female of the species should be the center of attention.
The Gist: A girl who thought she was just babysitting ends up being kidnapped by a mother for her vampire daughter to feed on.
Clarification: This is a short film. Most of it revolves around a young girl named Teagan who is trying to escape a house while an attractive blonde looks for her.
Female Vampire Factor: First you have the daughter Racheal.
Once Teagan kills her mother Racheal goes crazy and feeds on her. From there you see another female vampire who calls someone and exclaims that they have a problem.
It's a great short, but gets a Vampire Beauty Rating of 2 out of 5. The mom in the main antagonist so not much of a vampire film.
The Gist: A rich egotistical womanizing business man is attacked by a werewolf and finds himself in the middle of a wore between supernatural creatures he didn't know existed.
Clarification: Russell Bayne is a businessman who is trying to buy up a bunch of land to develop it into some type of project. Problem is a small shop that sells occult things owned by a young lady named Alex Layton is in the way because she won't sell.
One night Russell is driving down a backwoods road at night when a lady stops him for help as she wrecks her car swerving as she saw something in the road. That something ends up being a werewolf who destroys the woman and mauls Russell. He wakes up a few days later in the hospital and after Russell realizes he's turning into a monster he goes back to the shop and accuses Alex of putting a curse on him.
Once she realizes that he's a werewolf she reveals that she's one as well and volunteers to help him control it. While all this is going down a group of vampires are after Russell who want him for their plot to no longer live in the shadows and in fear of humans and take over with the help of their resurrected queen Lilith.
Selling Point: This is one of those movies where the werewolves are hot too. They don't necessarily turn all the way in some cases so just hairy hot girls with fangs at times.
Female Vampire Factor: The vampire queen Lilith is played by Yancy Butler
Lilith is a lot like Queen Akasha in Queen of the Damned. Many of the vampires prefer their life of solitude meanwhile she just wants to take over and will kill anyone including other vampires who get in the way of that.
The main vampire of film "Von Griem" is where the female vampire factor in this film truly comes from. Basically he has a stable of sexy female vampires that do all his dirty work.
It's a pretty decent film even if the ending is ridiculously cheesy. This is a bigger deal once you realize that this is a SyFy Channel film considering the reputation those have. I give it a Vampire Beauty Rating of 3 out of 5. The film does have an open ending hinting there could be a sequel but obviously after 10 years it's not happening.
In the series a secret government lab is experimenting with death row inmates in trying to make humans disease proof. Unfortunately one of the side effects of the experiments is the test subjects get superhuman abilities and develop a taste for blood. In other words they become vampires.
The lab decides that age is a factor in why people are turning into monsters in the experiment so they decide to find a younger subject. A child.
Federal Agents are sent to find a young orphan girl whose mother had recently died of a drug overdose. When one of the agents Brad Wolgast (Mark Paul Gosselaar) gets suspicious of the labs motives he decides to take her himself instead of delivering her to the lab. This result in him becoming a fugitive as he tries to protect the young girl from the government. It's later revealed that he had a daughter who passed away and almost sees her as a replacement.
Female Vampire Factor: We're introduced at the beginning of episode 1 to the previously experimented on convicts. While most of the early experimented on subjects lose their humanity and look like walking corpses the last one did not. A young woman by the name of Shauna Babcock who was on death row for murdering her parents (Brianne Howey).
Like all the others Shauna is completely non verbal. All the experiment subjects have certain quirks once they've turned and hers is to just stare at certain people and she seems to have taken a liking to one of the agents named Clark Richards.
It's eventually revealed that the way they communicate is telepathically through peoples dreams as many of the people who work in the lab report to have nightmares involving the experiment subjects either attacking them or talking to them. After the above face to face Shauna decides to visit Clark in his dreams kissing him before letting him know that later he's going to make up for lying to her before vamping out resulting in him waking up.
The show is narrated from the point of view of the little girl with the idea of the episodes being memories of the past that will lead up to a present where the vampires (or disease) have probably taken over. It reminds me very much of The Strain but obviously with traditional vampires instead of the Strains leech people versions.
If you're a fan of vampires as nightmarish creatures worth being afraid of I can definitely recommend this.
The Gist: A girl enrolls in an exclusive private university in order to investigate the death of her brother who was last seen alive as a student there.
Clarification: Originating as a series of shorts on MTV Valemont follows a girl named Sophie. Her brother was found dead and she questions what happened to him so she enrolled in Valemont, a private school for well off kids.
Eventually after doing a ridiculously bad job of even seemingly hiding her intentions at the school to keep people from being suspicious to an annoying degree she finds out that Valemont is a school for vampires who are coming of age. She then learns that vampires aren't made they're born, vampirism comes out once one hits a certain age and most importantly that her brother is alive, is a vampire and is very evil.
Female Vampire Factor: Obviously if her brother is a vampire and vampirism is hereditary surprise, surprise that means good old Sophie (Kristen Hager) finds out she too is a vampire.
The red eyes are the best that you're going to get as far as the vampire look goes with Sophie. Her brother Eric does try to temp her to drink from her best friend but it doesn't happen.
While most of the people in the film are vampires only two actually show fangs. One is Sophie's brother Eric and the other is their mother who Sophie thought had died but was alive and who they get their vampirism from. Their reunion includes mom who has no control trying to feed on her daughter.
The reason that is explained for the lack of fangs in the film is that only vampires who have an addiction to human blood develop them and the kids of Valemont are not allowed to feed on humans. Those who lose it to their blood lust are locked in a sanitarium on campus.
I give the film a Vampire Beauty Rating of 2 out of 5. The crazy vampires you never see outside of the above female seem like they would make a much better film. As is this is pretty much just a young adult style drama with little horror elements to hang on.
The Gist: A group of people heading to a concert get stuck in a backwoods town and become the targets of a vampire and her supernatural daughter.
Clarification: As described, this film is an attempt at being the "people take a wrong turn and end up in the middle of nowhere and victims of backwoods town people" type film. Unfortunately while the premise is fine the execution is where the problem lies.
The biggest issue I felt was that it takes the film way too long to get started. The movie itself doesn't really get started till about an hour in with the first hour being character development that has no baring on the films plot at all. On top of that the stuff that does need explained pretty much gets "yadda, yadda" past. Basically the people most important to the end of the movie are the people that get the least time and explanation throughout the movie. Basically it's the equivalent to Dracula but with most of the film being Jonathon Harkers ride to Transylvania and the rest of the story being the last few minutes.
Selling Point: If you're into cougar nudity there's at least something to look forward to.
Female Vampire Factor: Very little. The film establishes in the very confusing first hour through randomly placed flashbacks that Annabella was a decoy for her mother and another female vampire.
She has supernatural powers allowing her to make people do what she says allowing her to bring victims for the vampires to feed on.
We're eventually shown that the vampires human servant got tired of working for evil and decided to turn on her vampire masters by tainting their blood (that was served to them in beer mugs) with Holy Water.
One dies, Annabella's mother survives but is charred and Annabella survives. Assuming they were dormant for decades Annabella in present day is now looking for victims for her mother to bring her back to normal and the concert goers happen to be at the wrong place at the wrong time.
Not all the stranded people get killed by Annabella and her mom in the film as a few get turned but they got the cheap fang treatment and don't last past the scene in which they're revealed to have turned.
The odd thing about this film is the best vampire shots are the still production shots during the closing credits.
I give this film a Vampire Beauty Rating of 2 out of 5. Definitely a wasted opportunity as this story would make a great horror flick with a bit more direction. Basically the film "Vanished" which I reviewed here does the premise of "small town with vampire residents feeding on people" much better.
The Gist: A vampire falls for a blind call girl but his wife as well as her best friend/bodyguard disapprove of the relationship.
Clarification: The film goes to every extreme to the point your can't really type it as one thing. It has horror elements, romance and comedy. The comedy revolves around a call girl named Rainbow. The company she works out is straight up slap stick complete with women faking orgasms during phone sex calls and others giving men quickies in elevators.
Rainbow is blind and her body guard is in love with her but he's been friend zoned and is trying his best to claw his way out. Unfortunately this becomes impossible once she meets a vampire who she falls for. Whille his feelings for her are geunuine controlling his blood lust around her eventually becomes an issue.
Selling Point: You do get some softcore level sex scenes but I wouldn't exactly count this as an adult film.
Female Vampire Factor: There is only one in the film and that is the main vampires wife Moon.
The movie starts with Moon getting flirted with by one of the men helping her with arrangements for her "dead" husband (obviously he doesn't stay that way since he's a vampire). They meet up at a bar and eventually she lours him for sex and a quick bite.
Moon has a few feeding scenes throughout the film. After her husband is resurrected though her part is mainly that of the jealous wife trying to take out the woman who has her husbands love.
We do learn in one of them that her breasts are sensitive so touching them will stop her from pursuing biting. At least briefly.
Not a terrible film. If you've seen the films Embrace the Darkness or Sex with a Vampire you've seen this story before with the only difference between the comedic elements. I give it a Vampire Beauty Rating of 3 out of 5.
