A female vampire sets out to avenge the death of her sister at the hands of some college sorority babes. Since she’s been in a coffin so long, she is unable to sink her fangs into her victim’s necks. She then must resort to biting them in a softer, cushier place… their butt.
This shoddy Shot on Video horror-comedy starts with an opening crawl and what feels like the climax to another movie. However, as far as I can tell, it’s not a sequel to anything. There’s also a lot of flashbacks and dreams, which results in the film getting off to a rather confusing start. Once the narrative finally settles down, things don’t exactly improve.
Many of the attempts at humor are downright painful, just plain misguided, or flat-out unfunny. There are Buffy the Vampire Slayer jokes, sketches that feel like filmed versions of Playboy comics panels, and scenes that feel like they were ripped off from Mad Magazine (like the part with the “batting average”). You also have to suffer through weird asides (like the “Man Who Never Calls Back”), way too many obvious sight gags that fall flat, and all the stuff with the “Man in the Closet” is pretty irritating as well.
Some of the rapid-fire editing, non-sequiturs, and repeated dialogue is reminiscent of Party Doll a Go-Go. None of it really works though as it’s strictly amateur hour through and through. The only sequence that flirts with being worthwhile is the Dune-inspired scene where a sorority pledge has to stick her hand in a box that houses a flesh-hungry blob.
By the end, it just feels like it’s just making up new rules as it goes along. That might not have been a bad thing if it was actually funny, but it gets increasingly annoying as it wears on. Oh, and the whole “time traveling” aspect is a complete bait-and-switch which increases the frustration levels. (At least someone gets their butt bit though.)
Cinematographer Dennis Devine went on to a solid low budget directing career helming the likes of Ouija Nazi and Axegrinder 5.
AKA: Vampire Time Travelers.
I thought it was funny personally.
ReplyDelete