Vampiress Review: "Super Hot"

 

The Gist: A pizza delivery driver seeks the help of her friends to rescue her childhood best friend/crush when she moves in with a sorority of vampires.  

Female Vampire Factor: As mentioned the sorority in the film is a group of female vampires. 

Thing is only two of them actually fang out in the film and they're in quick flashes in one scene so not much actual vampirism happens.

Final Opinion:  This is one of those films that has so much potential but falls short due to a lot of attempted forced comedy that comes off annoying more than funny. 

A good majority of the movie is really annoying conversations between two people acting neurotic in cars.  Take away all of those scenes and the rest of the movie is actually pretty watchable. 

I mean the concept of a lesbian girl trying to save her high school crush from sorority vampires who she believes is trying to kill her works in every way if they knew how to concentrate on that story and not how socially awkward the protagonists of the film are around each other.

If the bulk of the film concentrated more on Jackie (the lesbian protagonist) and her relationship with Carmen (her crush) and how Carmen's personality was changing thanks to the new group she's hanging out with instead of Jackie driving around picking up people and talking about it, this could be an A+ film.  

As is I give it a Vampire Beauty Rating of 2 out of 5.  Netflix's "The Babysitter" franchise is what I feel the modern standard is for this type of film (girl protagonist has a crush on ends up being a monster) and this falls short of meeting that standard but it's definitely a respectable try. It does announce a future sequel so we'll see what happens from there. 

Vampiress Review: "Witchcraft 7: Judgement Hour"

The Gist: A couple of cops are put on a case when a young girl dies of mysterious circumstances at a party that ends up being the work of a vampire. 

Female Vampire Factor:  The film starts with a vampire biting a girl name Rachel (Ashley Rhey) after sex.  

Her friend finds her and calls an ambulance where she's rushed to the hospital and is eventually pronounced dead.  She doesn't stay that way as while the main detectives are looking her over she wakes up, manhandles both and runs off. 

She ends up running down a street in her hospital gown and passes a guy.  They end up having sex in the bushes which is where she fangs out and bites him. 

The detectives happen to drive past seeing this and went after her.  Once again she makes short work of them until Will Spanner (the main character of the series up to this point) puts a tree branch in her heart killing her. 

The next female vampire we see is Will's wife Kelly.  Throughout the film she's pretty moody, nagging Will one second and screwing him the next. 

One night while Will is on the phone with one of the detectives the vampire flies into his room and bites Kelly.

Will eventually gets back in bed with her which is when the vampire takes control of her telepathically.  She then flips out, scratching his chest and licking the blood off of him.

When he sees she's fanging out he punches her out then ties her up. 

The movie ends with the vampire after being staked by Will going back to Kelly and asking her to take the stake out.  She instead pushes it further in killing him.

Final Opinion: Despite this film being labeled "The Final Chapter" it absolutely wasn't and also wasn't the last of the Witchcraft series that dealt with vampires.  This one is pretty cheesy with especially cheap looking effects well beyond the rubber fangs.  I give it a Vampire Beauty Rating of 3 out of 5 as at least the sex scenes are decent.  Witchcraft X was a much better vampire film in the series which I reviewed HERE. 

Vampiress Review: "Vinopiri: Ledena Trgatev" (Winepires: Ice Harvest)

The Gist: Local authorities are placed on a case in which drunks are being found dead at night drained of blood which ends up being the work of vampires who must consume blood deluded by alcohol. 

Female Vampire Factor:  The first victim was a young girl named Mija.  She had gotten drunk one night after her boyfriend dumped her and her best friend Teja took her out to help her forget him.

  When Teja leaves her to use the bathroom she comes back to find Mija dead and drained of blood. 

Of course being a vampire film she proceeds to come back fangs and all (once vampires are turned here they always look like vampires) and cruises bars for victims. This only after feeding and turning the coroner who seemingly tried to molest her corpse off screen and murdering the guy who dumped her and decapitating the girl he left her for. 

Eventually she goes back to visit Teja with the classic outside the window "let me in, I'm just a cold damsel in distress" vampire scene.

 Obviously it was a successful reunion as the next time we see Teja she's also a Winepire and haunting one of the male police officers in his thoughts and hypnotizing him. 

In the films finale the female protagonist cop Nina tracks down the head vampire and it just so happens that he has his eye romantically on her (he haunts her similar to the way Teja haunts her partner/lover to the point she starts playing with herself in a scene before snapping out of it).  She doesn't fall for it like he did and ends up killing the master vampire but not before being bit by Mija (who Nina then kills).

At the end of the film you see Nina as well as the female bartender at the establishment the police were hanging out at before the battle have been turned and are planning on embracing their new gift together.

Final Opinion: This is a Slovanian film which is a sequel to another film which explains how the winepires came to be (winemakers using a wine/blood mixture to take control of people). I can't give the film more than a Vampire Beauty Rating of 3 out of 5.  The concept is very good but the execution of the film concentrates too much on the dysfunctional lives of the cops on the case so the actual vampire stuff is really in the background.  In other words you spend way more time learning about how hostile Nina is with everyone she knows than anything about the vampires.  Had the movie been centered around the vampirism it would have been an easy 4 or 5.