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 group of vacationers find a guy at a cemetery who ends up being a vampire who shifted into the body of a man who turns out to be the corpse of one of the vacationers dead brother.
Female Vampire Factor: The main vampire in the film Ramos/Ryan is in a highlander like battle with another vampire named Kronin who was trained with him. Kronin killed their master and wants to kill him out of jealousy. The group Ramos/Ryan stays with decides they want to help by being turned after that vampire kills several members. This includes the ex girlfriend of the host body Michelle
and his host bodies sister Carry.
Unfortunately this pretty much gets wasted on a quick fight scene so you don't get much vampirism out of them once they're turned.
On top of that the transformation itself gets used more for light comedy.
Final Opinion: This film suffers from the same general plot point issues as most straight to DVD films but unlike most the characters are actually entertainingly likeable when they go through their forced tension. Otherwise the film is just basically T&A where most scenes are just an excuse to show guys abs and girls in their bra and panties. In other words if National Lampoon or American Pie decided to make an action horror film this would be it. I give it a Vampire Beauty Rating of 2 out of 5.
The Gist: A young girl is transferred to a school for witches though there is one problem. Her powers have not developed yet. This results in her being shunned by the other students. To make matters worse students at the school are being attacked by vampires and disappearing.
Female Vampire Factor: The Vampire who is leading the attacks on the school is the sister of the only teacher in the school. Queen Fiona
The witch school itself is broken into cliques that the girls hang in with each clique having their own distinct look. You have the Goth Girls and your cheerleaders (below) as well as several other groups including Kung Fu Fighters, School Girls, glamour girls, girls obsessed with social media and so on. Each group also has their own specialized powers appropriate to them.
As the vampires attack and turn the girls their only real change is adding a cloak to their individual cliques look.
Only one girl shows fangs in the film. One of the goth girlsZi Yan is attacked and her unconscious body is brought back to the school. As they are tending to her she wakes up, sprouts fangs and attacks Jack the teacher as well as the main character Beibei.
This becomes a turning point in the film as it's the point where Beibeis powers finally show itself as they prevent Zi Yan from biting her.
Final Opinion: The Concept is decent and I found it entertaining but not that great of a vampire film. In fact it comes off more as a one hour K-pop video than it does a real movie as girls doing random girly stuff and music montages seem to be the most prevalent thing in the film. The tone of the film outside of those things are about equal to an episode of the Power Rangers. I give it a Vampire Beauty Rating of 3 out of 5.
The Gist: A high school students life is changed forever when a girl who used to live in his home who went missing in a cave accident in 1994 returns as a vampire and seeks his support.
Female Vampire Factor: Ruby and her friends went down into a cave where a landslide resulted in them becoming trapped. They thought they were rescued when a woman named Claudia came and found them but instead they were turned into vampires and held captive.
Thanks to fracking being done in the town they were eventually unearthed and allowed to roam their hometown for the first time in 25 years.
Ruby
Ruby is the title character. In spite of being a vampire she has maintained her morals and refuses to give in to what she is. Her first instinct once freed after 25 years was to go to her childhood home. Once she got there she found that her parents were gone and her childhood best friend Maya now lives in the home who is now an adult. In an awkward twist Ruby begins to gain feelings for her friends son Theo who is the same age that she was when she was turned.
Amber
Also trapped in the cave but unlike Ruby Amber lost her humanity during that 25 years. Originally an unassuming shy person she began a relationship with one of the guys down there with them named Ian which brought her out of her shell. Upon their escape Amber and Ian began a rampage around the city attacking and feeding off the unassuming towns people.
Maisie
The only vampire who never shows her fangs or is seen feeding. Instead of giving into her fate as a vampire she spends her entire vampire existence planning on how she can kill Claudia, not only for turning them but for feeding on and killing her dying brother who was trapped in the cave with them.
Claudia
The Vampire who turns the children. We never find out what Claudia's motivations were for turning them. She does reach out to Ruby and talks to her in a motherly fashion but her only purpose in the series first season is as the scapegoat for recent crimes happening in the area that she is being framed for by Maisie.
Annabelle
The daughter of the president of the fracking company responsible for releasing the vampires. As part of Maisie's plan to get rid of Claudia Annabelle gets kidnapped by Maisie and leads her father to believe Claudia did it. In the finale of the first season once she's rescued Theo who always had a crush on Annabelle is surprised to be asked out by her. The last scene before the episode ends is Annabelle accidentally cutting her finger on her locker and as she bleeds it's revealed that she is also now a vampire.
Final Opinion: It's a solid premise of a show but way too dramatic for my taste. The female vamps of the series seemingly spend more time crying than anything else. If there is a season 2 it seems to be promising with the 3 female vamps of the cave coming together to go vampire hunting and Theo's possible relationship with vampire Annabelle. I give it a Vampire Beauty Rating of 4 out of 5.
As a bonus probably the hottest thing about the series is the music video for it's theme song "Run You Down" by Australian singer Indiana Massara. In it she sings the song as a seductive vampiress.
