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 vampiress creates a fledgling for herself and sets their sites on a bikini contest in Las Vegas all while trying to avoid the fledglings ex and a vampire hunter.
Female Vampire Factor: The film revolves around a main vampire Lizette
After a fight with a guy over treatment she ends up biting his girlfriend Bree, turning her into a vampire which she doesn't necessarily get right away as Bree isn't that smart.
Lizette ends up going to Bree's day job at a fast food restaurant and convincing her to go to Vegas with her to take part in a bikini contest (and yes, her work uniform is a black bikini and a hat).
The only real vampiric stuff to happen after that is when the girls car breaks down and they're taken in by a couple. Bree's ex tracks her down to their house where she ends up biting him as well as the guy of the house.
She doesn't last long after that as Bree does end up dying out of nowhere by stepping into the sun without sunblock (the vampire hunter replaced her sunblock).
Lizette recovers from Brees death very quickly as she ends up taking the vampire hunter and biting her turning her.
The film ends with the couple getting memory wiped by Lizette. Her and the vampire hunter now a bikini vampire herself then drive off to Vegas all the while the boyfriend of Bree is then shown flashing his fangs showing that he too had been turned when Bree bit him.
Final Opinion: Not much of a vampire film so I give it a Vampire Beauty Rating of 2 out of 5. It is very much a throwback to the old USA up all night "girls in bikini's do regular stuff" genre that used to dominate the 1990's late night basic cable scene. Those types of films don't translate too well in modern times since a bikini is nowhere near as provocative as it once was prior to the mass availability of internet adult media. If you're looking for some cheap T&A the girls are in bikini's the whole film but otherwise the vampire stuff is more of a "matter of fact" thing than the main premise.
The Gist: A scientist who has created a serum that is supposed to extend human life is in actuality a vampire attempting to create other vampires.
Female Vampire Factor: There are only two and they are only vampires briefly. First the scientist has an assistant named Heidi.
She only reveals herself to be a vampire toward the films end when she's being murdered by the movies protagonists after taking the serum.
Then you have the main female protagonist Sandra.
The evil vampire Dr. Frederick Klaus invites her to intern at his lab where he intends to experiment on her. She ends up getting injected with the vampire serum as she is escaping from the lab early on in the movie.
Throughout the film they drink blood from bags to keep themselves level headed but while she doesn't attack anyone her fangs do show twice.
Final Opinion: Not a terrible film for a corny early 90's straight to VHS but as far as female vampirism it gets a Vampire Beauty Rating of 1 out of 5. Definitely skippable.
The Gist: A female vampire tries to live a normal life while struggling with trying to keep her vampiric side at bay as well as her unstable maker sabotaging her .
Female Vampire Factor: Your main femme vamp in this film is Darya aka Nico (Gabriella Toth)
She generally leads a very normal life. She has a night job at a bar and friends. Problem is the guy who turned her (Jure aka Joe) is a head case with an addiction to cocaine and alcohol diluted blood and constantly gets into trouble and gets her involved in his mess no matter how much she tells him she wants nothing to do with him or that life.
Thing is Nico wants a love life. Problem is since she's a vampire anyone who gets close to her will notice considering she's cold to the touch. This is one of the few films that actually addresses the concept that vampires are walking corpses. She keeps heat packs with her and makeup when she knows she's going to get intimate with someone.
As the film goes on her urges get worse as she gets closer with people resulting in her wanting blood from the tap and not from a bag. The first time it happens is after she meets a guy at her bar and ends up losing control during orgasm and drains him.
Luckily for Niko the entire movie Joe is pretty much murdering and draining anyone he comes across and not being careful about it so when the cops come and question her about the murder of the guy she screwed the night before they just assume it was Joe who killed the guy in a jealous rage for him sleeping with her.
One night while picking up some blood from one of her connections at a local hospital she meets a doctor who she falls for. Framing Joe for all the vampire killings works out as she decides in order to keep from accidentally feeding on her new love she'll basically feed on others before she meets up with him which does work.
Unfortunately for her him being a doctor results in him becoming very concerned with her low pulse and clammy skin and wants to check her out. He secretly takes samples from her and has them checked revealing to him that she is super old. Instead of being frightened he's been screwing a vampire he confronts her with how what she is could help people.
As soon as she tells him she loves him too much to turn him or wish her curse on anyone Joe shows up and bites the doctor but doesn't drain him then apologizes to Niko for how he is and explains how he did it for her because he knew she wouldn't and that hopefully one day she'll think better of him. Niko instead of turning him takes her boyfriend to the ER but not before tasting and enjoying some of his blood herself.
There is a second female vampire in the film Viktoria (Nika Khitrova).
Nico calls her in Europe to come to Nevada and help her with the Joe situation midway through the film. She ends up talking Joe into going back to Europe with her but Joe only agrees if Viktoria goes hunting with him. They end up killing and draining all the patrons in some random desert bar.
Final Opinion: This is a fantastic vampire film. The whole thing revolves around the idea that no matter how hard a vampire wants to be a regular person they don't control the vampire side. One of my major pet peeves in vampire media is when they're just portrayed as regular people that just occasionally drink blood when they feel like it and can lead perfectly normal lives. Nico drinks from blood bags the entire movie and is always stocked but it doesn't matter because if she's within biting distance of a neck that urge is trying to push it's way through.
This film reminds me a lot of a very sexually toned down Kiss of the Damned. As far as a Vampire Beauty Rating I give it a 3 out of 5. Nico doesn't fang out often and out of the three bite scenes she has, only the one sex scene above do you actually see her fangs (the other two are from far distances). Same for Viktoria. Basically all the graphic vamprism other than Nico's above sex bite is Joe feeding which he does a lot. With that in mind remember this is also a 2 hour movie. Definitely recommended otherwise.
