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.
Silk Stalkings was a night time crime drama which aired on the USA Network in the 90's. The selling point of the series was that the crimes on each episode usually happened just before or after a half naked woman was going to have sex with someone.
In this episode a guy who thought he was a vampire would go to a goth bar and pick of random women. He would drug them then take him back to his place and during sex two women would show up and they would kill the woman and drain them of blood. The guy and one of the girls named Lilith sported fangs when they did their kills.
As the episode went on it became clear that the non fanged one Tara was Liliths side piece. She never actually sported fangs and it was her that lead to the trio's eventually capture.
The episode ends with Lilith turning on the male vampire and giving the detectives a crossbow loaded with a wooden stake which finally took him down after guns didn't work. They then find he was wearing fake fangs and a bullet proof vest. They then capture Lilith and take her to jail but the last thing we see is that she bit and drained her cell mate.
Before heading back to the goth club fanging out one last time before the credits roll implying that she was the real vampire the whole time.
It was an ok episode only bogged down by the secondary storyline of the female detectives love life where she's in a complicated relationship with a guy going through a divorce from a woman who is mentally unstable.
Glory Days was a short lived night time supernatural drama that aired on the WB Network in late 2002/early 2003. The premise is basically a cop and a writer living in a small town where weird things happen every week resulting in cases they have to solve.
In this episode three vampire women show up in the town of glory around the same time a womans body is found drained of all her blood.
The first of the vampires we meet is Rosalyn who seems to have a thing for Sherriff Rudy as she shows up wherever he does determined to get him to be with her.
Then you have Jade who is the ring leader of the group who does most of the talking. Her eyes are specifically on young Zane. She is played by the legendary Canadian vampire actress Meghan Ory (Supernatural, Vampire High, Sanctuary)
And finally, you have Sharla who is just a background character who says nothing but makes really good fang out faces in the scenes where the other two do.
We eventually find out they are not vampires but college girls doing a sociology experiment where they see how people react to being attacked by a vampire and have nothing to do with the murder in the town.
It's lazy writing as clearly they just needed an excuse to have hot vampire women on a show on the WB without outright biting off of Buffy or Angel and this was the best they could do. Thankfully the network would do a bit better over the years for the vampire genre after the WB/UPN merger into the CW in 2006. Outside the horrible reveal this was a decent episode.
The Gist: An author named Ben Mears returns to his hometown in order to use it for inspiration to write a new horror book and ends up unraveling a plot to turn everyone in the town into vampires.
Female Vampire Factor: The first female vampire in the film is a woman by the name of Marjorie Glick (Rebecca Gibney). She is the mother of two young boys who were targeted and killed by Richard Straker at the order of his vampire business partner Kurt Barlow. After their death Marjorie begins hearing their voices and we eventually see her open a door just to be attacked and killed. After Marjorie's death protagonist Ben Mears along with Dr James Cody stake out at the coroner's office suspecting they are dealing with vampires. They are proven right when she raises from the coroner's slab and attacks them, only sabed by Ben's cross made from taped together tongue depressors.
The next is Ben's attempted love interest Susan Norton (Samantha Mathis).
She's an aspiring writer that Ben meets at the coffee shop her parents own. She heads to the creepy house that is the center of all the happenings to help solve the mystery of what happened there years ago that haunted Ben in his childhood and ends up getting captured in the process. Once Ben kills the vampire Barlow and goes to destroy the house he is confronted by Susan where she informs him that she did solve the case exonerating Ben from the guilt of thinking he allowed one of his friends to die in the house (the kid was already dead when he got there apparently). She gives him a nice pep talk before being staked by Ben when she vamps out at his young accomplice mark.
Finally we have young Ruth Crockett (Penny Mcnamee)
Ruth is a rebellious young girl who has the unfortunate luck to have a really overprotective father. She also gets enjoyment from teasing the local handicapped garbage man Dud who believes that she is his girlfriend. Eventually she breaks his heart and tells him the truth but that becomes short lived when the vampire Barlow turns Dud curing him of his handicap and Ruth becomes his obsession. The film ends with Dud eventually turning her and Larry finding her with Dud at the town dump where Dud lived. Dud and the other kids who are now vampires end up eating Larry.
Final Opinion: Out of the two televised versions of the story this is easily the most complete version and is dramatic horror almost all the way through unlike the 1979 version that starts very soap opera like and doesn't get to the scares until almost the very end. I give this film a Vampire Beauty Rating of 4 out of 5. They cram a lot of female vampires in the last hour or so. If the story had more in the first 2 hours it would definitely get a 5 but the female vamps are basically one and done with most of the vampirism in the story being done by the kids of the town.
The Gist: An author named Ben Mears comes back to his home town in order to use it for inspiration to write a horror novel and ends up uncovering a plot by a vampire to take it over.
Female Vampire Factor: The first female vampire in the film is a woman by the name of Marjorie Glick (Clarissa Kaye-Mason). She is the mother of two young kids who are initially targeted by vampire Kurt Barlow and his accomplice Richard Straker. The boys once turned appear to their friends and family at night and feed on them. After Marjorie's death she is the first to be witnessed by anyone turning as film protagonist Ben Mears as well as his girlfriends father Dr. Bill Norton are waiting in the coroners office with her body when she raises and is attacked by her, only saved by Ben's tongue depressor created cross.
The last vampiress comes in the form of Ben's love interest in the film Susan Norton (Bonnie Bedelia)
She's a school teacher in the small town who and as mentioned she ends up getting into a relationship with Ben. As people in the town begin mysteriously dying and the culprit is figured out to be the residents to a creepy house in town she ends up going to confront them just to get captured. In the final scene of the film which takes place two years after the events of the film she finds Ben (who destroyed the vampire and his house but couldn't save the town along with a young kid from the town named Mark). She tells him that they can be together forever before fanging out but is staked by Mark before she could bite Ben.
Final Opinion: While this is a decent adaptation it does take awhile to get to the vampire stuff. As this was originally a mini series watching it in one sitting is over 3 hours and the vampire stuff only takes up the last hour or so with most of the film just revolving around Ben and Susan's relationship. I give it a Vampire Beauty Rating of 2 out of 5. The 2004 remake is much more complete from a plot standpoint as well as much more female characters turned.
In this episode of the CW series Sam whose job is to collect the souls that escape from hell for his father the devil along with his friends are sent out to find a serial killer who drank her victims blood when she is alive.
Upon meeting her she is freaked out and says that they can't have something.
She then jumps down from the second floor and reveals herself to be an actual vampire.
She is then destroyed by Sam via a stake through the heart while she's attacking one of the other guys.
Final Opinion: OK Episode but the vampirism ends here. The bulk of the show revolves around the guys trying to figure out what to do with her child as well as Bert trying to work on trying not to lust after his step sister and Morgan trying to hit on Andi. In other words everything but vampires. I give it a Vampire Beauty Rating of 3 out of 5.
The Gist: In order for a group of friends to join an exclusive club they must impress the elder with scary stories.
Female Vampire Factor: Story number two in the film is told by the character Omar and is titled "The Boy who Cried Vamp". In it he describes an unemployed DJ named Jamal who ends up getting a job at a nightclub not knowing that it is run by vampires and that he was being turned into one as well. The female vamp of the story is a stripper named Nisa.
In a twist we also briefly see his girlfriend Kendra with fangs as well.
Final Opinion: Best described as kind of a watered down "Tales from the Hood" the vampire story itself is short and to the point with a run time just shy of 25 minutes with a good majority of it just being gratuitous shots of Nisa fanging out
For that I'll give it a vampire beauty rating of 4 out of 5. The rest of the film is ok, you get a weird modern retelling of little red riding hood and Frankenstein followed by finding out that the club was really full of demons. I wouldn't exactly blame anyone for skipping to just the vampire story and not watching the rest.
First Kill is a Netflix original series which debuted in 2022. The story revolves around two teenage girls. One a vampire named Julliette and one a monster slayer named Calliope. Both are going through a kind of puberty for their kind in which getting their first kill will launch them into adulthood.
By chance they end up targeting each other for that but botched it during a round of spin the bottle.
In the throws of passion Julliette bites Calliope leaving herself open for Calliope to stake her but neither get the kill as Calliope runs away before confirming the kill.
To make matters worse they fall for each other when Calliope begins questioning her clans blind hatred of vampires when Julliette goes out of her way to save her from the rest of the vampires. This leads to a rift between the two girls and their families launching a supernatural Romeo & Juliette story.
Julliette is one of those "vampires that really doesn't want to be one and just wants to be a normal girl" vamps. She comes from a line of first generation vampires which is why she can walk in the daylight and wasn't killed when staked through the heart. She tries to hold back her vampire urges through taking blood pills but much like regular puberty she has issues keeping her fangs in in emotional situations.
Thow everyone in her family are vampires with the family being described as a matriarch (vampire leadership being passed from mother to daughter)
there is only one in the family that falls into vampire in the traditional sense (meaning she openly stalks and feeds during the series) and that's Juliettes older sister Elinor.
Elinor is the prototypical upper class debutont Barbie. While she does come off very cold overall everything she does is in an effort to protect her little sister including seducing, biting then hypnotizing townspeople to cover up a murder she believedJulliette did.
Then when she found out Juliette hadn't had her first kill doing everything in her power to help her sister kill while covering it up to the family that it hadn't happened.
Though at the end of the day her motivations are all selfish as she's only truly thinking about how her sister being shunned would affect her standing in the family.
Final Opinion: I don't have too many complaints about season 1. When I first heard the premise I thought it would be a bit corny and overwhelmingly teenage girl angsty ala Twilight or the web series Carmella but was pleasantly surprised to find a well balanced horror drama. I definitely recommend it. Unfortunately in August of 2022 even with a very loyal fanbase Netflix announced the show would be cancelled after only 1 season.
Love and Curses was a series which aired in the early 1990's which followed the story of Dr. Ian Matheson and his assistant Randi Wallace. Ian is a talk show host that specializes in the accult and Randi is not only his assistant but his love interest who happens to also be a werewolf.
In this episode the two take on the case of a man who comes to the couple claiming to be the victim of his ex wife and her lawyer who are vampires. The man ends up dying in their doorway and they investigate just to find that his allegations were true and there is a law firm specializing in divorces completely run by vampires who want Randi as their newest member.
Female Vampire Factor: There were two femme vamps in this episode...
Karen Colfax(Sandra Kerns)
Karen is the soon to be ex wife of the victim of this episode, a wealthy man named Marty. She hires the vampire lawfirm to handle her divorce and as an added bonus it seems she was turned to one herself.
Nancy Chambers(Marta DuBois)
In order to get more information about the firm Randi and Ian fake a divorce themself and Nancy is hired to be Ians divorce lawyer. She is eventually called to a private meeting with Randi's vampire lawyer where she is turned and eventually returns to Ian to feed on him.
Final Opinion: Pretty decent episode even if it's relatively corny even by early 90's standards. I'll give it a Vampire Beauty Rating of 4 out of 5. Only thing keeping it from a five is the fact that neither of the women were very seductive.
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.
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