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.
Creepshow is an anthology type series based on the movie of the same name from 1982. In this episode a young girl named Lola (Maddie Nichols) tells her school counselor that she's afraid that her brother is trying to kill her.
She recaps her prior week and his weird behavior. When the counselor doesn't believe her she goes home just for her brother to once again try to kill her with an ax. When she says how she'll tell their parents he explains that their parents are dead and she killed them. She then remembers that she fed on her mother after a hug.
Then attacked her father when he was offering her breakfast.
Then she eventually remembers that her friend bit her while she was sleeping during a sleepover the week before which is when she must have been turned.
The siblings decide to call a truce and that Lola's friend Grace who turned her should be the one to die. Lola ends up turning her brother Andrew then after they kill Grace the episode ends with them going after the school counselor.
The Gist: A stripper struggles with becoming a vampire while the vampires who accidently turned her are out to destroy her. Luckily for her one of them has feelings for her.
Female Vampire Factor: The main protagonist if you can call her that in the film is Corri (Starr Andreef)
She is a single mom whose son does not respect her and does not approve of her lifestyle as a stripper (and apparently she's also an alcoholic). She is accidentally turned when giving a lap dance at the strip club she works at to Laura who was there along with her brood mate Zero and loses control of her blood lust (Diana Frank)
Problem is their brood leader Alko (Marrium Parris)
has strict rules for their brood and turning someone without authorization breaks that so Zero is tasked with destroying Corri but instead chooses to take her in and show her how to function as a vampire.
The Gist: So this is a ridiculously cheesy fangless vampire film. Actually I can't really call it fangless since there is a fang scene in it as one of the strippers dresses like a vampire
and Corri herself also does a vampiress stripper routine where she has fake fangs.
but the actual vampires when they feed use cutting tools and just end up becoming demon like after drinking blood but with no fangs.
This is somewhat addressed as there is an entire dialogue of Corrie being super upset that if she's going to be stuck as a vampire why she can't have fangs since that would've been the only positive of it for her.
I've seen others call this one of the worst vampire films ever made. I personally wouldn't go that far, not because it's better than expected but because I've definitely seen worse. Though it is pretty bad I wouldn't call it unwatchable. If it weren't for the nudity it would have definitely qualified for spoofing on Mystery Science Theater 3000 during it's time since it does qualify as laughably bad. I give it a Vampire Beauty Rating of 1 out of 5. The story itself has potential though to the point that it's actually pretty entertaining when it was done as the plot of the skinamax film Embrace the Darkness 2 nearly 4 years later. Marium Parris would go on to play a vampiress again in her short acting career on the daytime soap opera Port Charles.
The Gist: After the woman he is in love with falls ill a man seeks the help of a doctor who informs him that the illness is due to her being the victim of a vampire.
Female Vampire Factor: The female vampire in this film is Lucy (Charlie Bond)
Final Opinion: Long story short this is the Dracula story but only focused on the portion revolving Lucy's illness, death and resurrection as a vampire with the final portion of the film being when Dr. Van Helsing and Aurther finally slay her.
It's a pretty interesting concept focusing on what is normally a portion of the story that's considered an afterthought, but it does add some things to it with Lucy's turn lasting longer than one night and her even getting Arthur under her spell and using him to find victims for her. I give it a Vampire Beauty Rating of 4 out of 5 just based on the concept being completely focused on the female vampire and not Dracula at all. It's not a very seductive portrayal like many other versions have Lucy but it's very fang friendly.
