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1986 / 94m.

D: Richard Wenk

Chris Makepeace, Sandy Baron, Robert Rusler, Dedee Pfeiffer, Gedde Watanabe, Grace Jones, Billy Drago

VAMPIRA

See OLD DRACULA

VAMPIRE, THE

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1913 / S / 94m.

D: Robert Vignola

Chris Makepeace, Sandy Baron, Robert Rusler, Dedee Pfeiffer, Gedde Watanabe, Grace Jones, Billy Drago

VAMPIRE, THE

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1957 / 74m.

D: Paul Landres DP: Jack MacKenzie

John Beal, Coleen Gray, Dabbs Greer, Raymond Greenleaf

a.k.a. MARK OF THE VAMPIRE

VAMPIRE AT MIDNIGHT

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1987 / 93m.

D: Gregory McClatchy DP: Daniel Yarussi

Jason Williams, Gustav Vintas, Lesley Milne, Jeanie Moore, Esther Alise, Robert Random

An L.A. hypnotist uses mesmerism and hypnosis to get people to do his bidding. He uses this power to allure susceptible women, seducing, and then draining them of blood. Coincidentally to our story, the love interest of a police officer also becomes prey to this hypnotist. Using a blood-red heart charm necklace, women become entirely powerless against him.

A very good twist at the beginning, and some decent settings, camera work and plotting help move the story past a few tired contrivances. Most of the acting is wooden, as if the first-reading dry runs were filmed, excepting the perfectly cast Gustav Vintas as the charismatic hypnotist.

Our double ending is one most skeptical, logical people would admire. See it with your credulous friends. Don't miss my favorite part, the uncredited Director of the Supernatural Society is played by none other than Mr Sci-Fi, Forrest J Ackerman

VAMPIRELLA

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1996 / 85m.

D: Jim Wynorski

Talisa Soto, Roger Daltry, Richard Joseph Paul, Lee de Broux, Robert Clotworthy, Brian Bloom, Corinna Harney, Rusty Meyers

Drawn (pun intended) from the comic book character Vampirella. Thirty centuries ago on planet Drakulon, an elder teaches his daughter (though sometimes it is daughter-in-law) about the serene sanity of their ways. Supposedly (we never actually see them) rivers of blood flow through this planet of vampires, although that makes absolutely no sense. From cannibalistic beginnings, their society has advanced to be more humane, thirsty only for nature-given blood, no longer feeding on others (why this race of vampires would evolve cannibalistic traits on a planet with rivers of potable blood is something we are left in the dark about). Some genetic miscreants still spring up from time to time, and one, just before sentencing, escapes to take up residency on our beloved terra firma. The elder’s daughter follows the miscreant, but gets thrown off-course to settle on Mars until rescued by Space Shuttle astronauts who just happen to have picked up her sleeping pod without telling anyone on Earth.

Beautiful model Talisa Soto certainly has the face, but not the body, for the curvy, voluptuous character that readers of the original comic would have envisioned. The revealing outfit worn by the Vampire named Ella is so loose and forgiving on this walking toothpick of a woman that I would have thought it was sized to fit Nia Vardalos. You could fit a pack of rabid Dobermans in the creases of her loose-fitting panties and have room to spare.

Roger Daltry, lead singer of personal-favorite band The Who, takes leave of his senses to over act his role as the “wicked aberration,” Vampirella’s nemesis. If you’ve seen him in QUADROPHENIA, MCVICAR, TOMMY, or LIKE IT IS, you know he’s usually more capable. His approach does, however, fit had-in-glove with the purposeful campyness of the production. Angus Scrimm, the tall man from the PHANTASM films, plays the elder. John Landis plays a Shuttle pilot.

Some cool Drakulon sets at the beginning (excepting the council chamber door that closes differently than it opens), and some apparently purposeful plays on the comic book campyness, actually bring this one up a notch. In addition, some in-jokes for those who are fans of the character’s creator, Forrest J Ackerman (especially props in a young Forry’s apartment), don’t hurt. The real Forrest J Ackerman appears briefly in a nightclub scene.

Ending is directly lifted from SCARS OF DRACULA.

End credits tell us to watch for a sequel, DEATH’S DARK AVENGER, but it has yet to be made.

Babyjohn Choi, Chin Siu-ho, Lin Min Chen, Richard Ng

An absolutely fun and sometimes comedic (thankfully on purpose) foray into the Chinese vamp mythology, complete with vampirc typology, symbolisms for control, and the inevitable cleanup of bloody meetups between the living and the near-dead. The arms-out jumping vampires remind of TSU HARK'S VAMPIRE HUNTERS, and brought up creepiness from that perfect epic.

Wouldn't you know, but our young hero endeavors to save an old man in a back alley being mauled by an odball mugger, and it turns out to be a vampire, who bites the kid right in the ass. Yup, I'm not making this up.

The kid survives, of course, and becomes a nephyte vampire hunter in his uncles' crew (genetics?). Lin Min Chen as Summer/Winter is more fuckably adorable than anyone should be, and she quickly catches the heart of our hero. Some predictability and some cheesy effects don't dilute the nature of this somewhat original take on the genre.

VAMPIRE DOLL

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1970 / 71m.

D: Michio Yamamoto DP: Kazutomi Hara

Kayo Matsuo, Yukiko Kobayashi, Yoko Minazake

Also titled THE NIGHT OF THE VAMPIRE and LEGACY OF DRACULA.

VAMPIRE EFFECT

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2003 / 88m.

D:Dante Lam and Donnie Yen DP:

Ekin Cheng, Charlene Choi, Gillian Chung, Edson Chen, Anthony Wong, Josie Ho, Mickey Hardt, Maggie Lau, Mandy Chiang

A brother and sister team battle cool karate-kicking revenants in strangely unpeopled Hong Kong train stations and public squares. They take a vial of vampire blood to give them a temporary burst of energy, but within an hour need to drink a tonic to counteract the effect, or they become one of the walking damned themselves. Wouldn’t you know it, but one begins a transformation, and another is duty-bound to commit murder on the living to prevent them from living death. Yawn.

John Moulder Brown, Adrienne Corri, Laurence Payne, Thorley Walters, Lynne Frederick, David Prowse

VAMPIRE HUNTERS

See TSU HARK'S VAMPIRE HUNTERS

VAMPIRE HUNTER "D"

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1914 / S / .

D: Robert Vignola

John Moulder Brown, Adrienne Corri, Laurence Payne, Thorley Walters, Lynne Frederick, David Prowse

VAMPIRE OVER LONDON

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1952 / 74m.

D: John Gilling

Bela Lugosi, Arthur Lucan, Dora Bryan, Richard Wattis, Philip Leaver, Judith Furse

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1914 / S / .

D: Robert Vignola

John Moulder Brown, Adrienne Corri, Laurence Payne, Thorley Walters, Lynne Frederick, David Prowse

VAMPIRES

See JOHN CARPENTER'S VAMPIRES. a.k.a. VAMPIRES: LOS MUERTOS and JOHN CARPENTER'S VAMPIRES: LOS MUERTOS

VAMPIRES: LOS MUERTOS

See JOHN CARPENTER PRESENTS: VAMPIRES, LOS MUERTOS

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1914 / S / .

D: Robert Vignola

John Moulder Brown, Adrienne Corri, Laurence Payne, Thorley Walters, Lynne Frederick, David Prowse

Once won over, Duff decides to stay human, growing old while Horan stays timeless. This cool twist on the tale is mixed with a recently-paroled abusive ex-boyfriend, and a superstitious aunt who early on figures out Horan’s other-worldly status.

Stay for the credits.

VAMPIRE VIXENS FROM VENUS

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1994 / 90m.

D: Ted A. Bohus

Leon Head, Theresa Lynn, J. J. North, Leslie Glass, John Knox, Joseph Pallister, Michelle Bauer, Charlie Callas

Three disgusting-looking aliens come to Earth and change their appearance to voluptuous hotties. They get men to the peak of excitement so a device can be slipped over their head to drain them of vital orgasmic energy – which can be bottled and sold in some far-away solar system! Although the men still have their pants on, the point of peak stimulation is necessary because vital energy stolen at any other time is only worth ½ on the black market.

Includes nowhere near enough nudity or sexual tension to deliver on the marketed sexuality of this crappy letdown.

VAMPIRE VS ZOMBIES

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2003 / 85m.

D: Vince D’Amato

Bonny Giroux, C. S. Munro, Maritama Carlson, Brinke Stevens

There’s a new film in town vying for the title of worst vampire (or otherwise) film of all time, and if you don’t avoid it like the plague, it’ll get your money from you like the spurs from a dead cowboy.

Not even super hot M.I.L.F. Brinke Stevens can add life to this celluloid corpse.

Billed as “Based on J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s Classic Vampire Tale ‘Carmilla’.” Well, there is a character with that name, but that is the only resemblance.

Don’t even look at the box. Your time is far too valuable.

You have been warned.

VAMPYR

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1932 / 73m.

D: Carl Theodor Dreyer

Julian West (Baron Nicolas de Gunzberg), Sybille Schmitz, Maurice Schutz, Henriette Gerard

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VAN HELSING

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2004 / c. 127m.

D: Stephen Sommers

Hugh Jackman, Kate Beckinsale, Richard Roxburgh, David Wenham, Will Kemp, Kevin J. O’Conner, Shuler Hensley

Dr. Frankenstein is working on the penultimate creation, a man made of pieces of dead men, animated to life through harnessed electricity. His cooperation with Dracula on the project comes to an end, however, since Drac has the animated monster now, something he needs for some dark, mysterious plan we are not yet privy to. To complicate things, the villagers are busting down Castle Frankenstein’s door to stop the evil experiments. The monster escapes Dracula long enough to take his maker to a windmill, which is burned by the villagers in a conflagration, ending the vampire’s plans.

Jump ahead one year to Paris in 1888 (we know the year from the progress on the construction of the Eiffel Tower). Gabriel Van Helsing, hired to subdue Mr. Hyde, has a run of bad luck when during a fall from a spire of the Notre Dame Cathedral, Hyde transforms back into Dr. Jekyl. Now thought of as a cold-blooded murderer, VH journeys to home base in the Vatican. Not caring about VH’s personal dilemmas, they dispatch him to his next assignment: Go to Transylvania and kill Count Dracula. What ensues takes us on a bumpy roller-coaster ride to remote Romania and to BudaPest. We meet flying vampire succubae, werewolves, and ultimately, ghouls and the Frankenstein monster once again.

Drac does have a dark plan, and it’s a pretty cool one. Van Helsing is also 400 years old, and he doesn’t know why (arteriosclerosis, perhaps?). Through several integrations of many monster myths and legends, with some self-serving bending and blending thrown in for good measure, our heroes are thrown into an evolving evil plan. As we know from the beginning, this will all ultimately lead to the vanquishing of evil over the (yawn) power of good.

Ably written and directed by Sommers (The Mummy(1999) and The Mummy Returns(2001)), this smooth outing outshines his previous works, both of which disappointed with flair. Some elements here were unnecessary, however, loosing some viewer credibility. We have, for instance, technology which didn’t exist at the end of the 19th Century, and an underground weapons and technology testing facility lifted straight from the James Bond films, complete with our own “M” (who luckily for us joins in VH’s travels and travails).

Strong of spirit and body, VH (Jackman) goes to the Carpathians, meeting up with fellow vampire hunter [ ](sexy Beckinsale), and with the inventor/friar (Wenham) in tow, cut through a maze of strange villagers, family members transforming into werewolves, etc., all while vying for the ultimate prize; Drac’s head on a plate. The Count here is played by Richard Roxburgh, previously [ ]. Visually, he was a solid casting choice, but I found his line delivery to be wooden. But who cares when you’re having fun?

Many European portions were filmed in Prague, Czech Republic.

A television series is in the works.

VAMPS

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2012 / 92m.

D: Amy Heckerling DP: Tim Suhrstedt

Alicia Silverstone, Krysten Ritter, Dan Stevens, Richard Lewis, Wallace Shawn, Justin Kirk, Kristen Johnston, Malcolm McDowell, Sigourney Weaver

Amy Heckerling, virtuoso of the excellent comedy and social commentary hit CLUELESS, decided to contribute to the vampire genre.