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.
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