Vampiress Review: "Dracula's Fiancee"

The Gist: Two hunters searching for Dracula encounter other monsters and a convent of nuns guarding them as the vampire count is collecting women to be his bride.

Female Vampire Factor:  There is only one female vampire in this film.  A red head woman who pretty much looks like every vampiress in a Jean Rollins film.

 Her role is basically to randomly exist and for T&A purposes as she's not very important to the plot.  Basically as the film gets uninteresting a scene will randomly pop up with her doing something kind of lesbianish. For example you have a scene where she bites an injured ogress.

Then one where she sucks the blood of a nun with her bare butt exposed.

and finally one where she has a blood drinking makout session with a werewolf.

Final Opinion:  If you've seen a Jean Rollins film before then you pretty much know what to expect as his vampire films are pretty much the same.  If I were going to suggest one to watch this would probably not be it though so I'll give it a Vampire Beauty Rating of 3 out of 5. Gratuitous sexy vampire stuff is in the film but nowhere near the level as many of his past films.

Vampiress Review: "Vampire Dracula Comes to Kobe: Evil Makes a Woman Beautiful (吸血鬼ドラキュラ 神戸に現る)

The Gist: Dracula goes to Kobe Japan and falls for a woman who looks like his slain vampire bride.

Female Vampire Factor:  Our first taste comes in the form of a dream the main love interest of the film has that ends up bring a flashback to a previous life where she marrys Dracula just to be slain by vampire hunters.

From there in present day Kobe people are mysteriously dying.  What makes it even more mysterious is their bodies cannot be destroyed.  Eventually they all come back to life at the same time and march out of the morgue.

This results in more people being turned

Basically from there the vampires are just used as background characters for the wedding between Dracula and the woman he's infatuated with Eriko who are used to keep the films protagonist Mitsuo away from them.

Final Opinion: This is a made for TV film from 1979 so it's a bit cheesy.   I give it a Vampire Beauty Rating of 2 out of 5.  This story has been told what feels like a million times even by the point this film is made and nothing about this version really stands out from the others and it definitely doesn't compare to the Hammer Horror films that were still big during this time period. 

Vampiress TV Review: "V Wars (season 1)"

The Gist: An arctic virus is unearthed which turns anyone exposed to vampires.  A doctor is then caught up in a war between government agencies and the victims of the plague

Female Vampire Factor:  Dr. Swann and his best friend Michael were both exposed at the same time while investigating the disappearance of a colleague.  Both became ill but only Michael turned.


Jess

It's later found that only people with a certain gene could turn into a vampire which explains why Dr. Swann recovered and Micheal didn't.  The first femme vamp of the series ends up being Dr. Swanns wife Jess who was exposed to both.  At the end of episode one she goes completely feral and attempts to attack her stepson.

note: None of the other female vampires of the series are feral.  It's pretty much spelled out that whether a vampire kills or not is based on personal preference and as long as they feed on some type of human blood once every 3 to 5 days they can live normally.


Danika

A party girl who was exposed to Micheal shortly after his perceived recovery.  Her first feed ended up being her own sister Mila. 

Her in vampire form is the stereotypical vampire vixen who uses sex in order to seduce victims into volunteering blood.  Once the vampires unionize she is eventually saved by the group from both the government and freelance vampire hunters who raid her home and reunits with Micheal where they get romantically involved.

Mila

Danika's estranged sister.  It's made clear in the beginning the two don't get along so once she's turned by Danika her hate for her sister just gets worse.  Laura Vandervoort who I've featured on this page MANY times is pretty much typecast as monsters now.  She's played vampires before but this is the first time I believe she's actually fanged out as a vampire on screen.  Her character is very anti-vampire and she spends her nights hunting them with the ultimate goal of getting to her sister.  Her character is barely a factor in season one though and is seemingly being built up for a major role if there is a second season. Because she's anti vampire she doesn't fang out much with the most significant one being when she accidentally exposes what she is to her then girlfriend who sneaks up on her to surprise her with flowers in the opening segment of the season 1 finale. 

Ava

A nineteen year old farm girl who was saved by Micheal when vampire hunters were coming after her family.  When the vampires unionized she takes a second in command position under Micheal.  Once Danika comes into the picture she gets jealous of his time with her and begins to go behind his back and sabotage any progress the vampires and humans have of living together in harmony which is something she does not want as she only sees humans as the people who killed her father and as food.

Amelie

It's never explained how the young daughter of pro human vampire truce senator Giroux got exposed but she tries to play it off for awhile but when it gets too bad and finds out feeding on animals won't cut it she confesses to everyone and is treated without incident.

Final Opinion: I was a fan of the Fox show "The Passage" and was very disappointed when it wasn't given a second season.  This show has practically the same premise but The Passages lead female vampire is better than any of the ones presented on this show. If you're going for quantity over quality though this one is definitely the better of the two but the bulk of the vampirsm is in the shows first few episodes before they know what the problem is.  Once it's identified it becomes 95% politics and 5% vampirism.