Vamps: Deadly Dreamgirls
By John Oak Dalton • Aug 18th, 2003 • Category: Horror, ReviewsLap-dancin’, blood-suckin’ vixens cause havoc for hapless patrons at a satanic strip club. It falls to a troubled priest (is there any other kind?) to try to clear out this den of evil, but a few pole-spins from Jennifer Huss begins to change his mind. A bevy of beauties take the stage to keep the proceedings moving along at its expected pace.
Vamps is a tongue-in-cheek romp that uses eye-popping girls (Amber Newman fans should build a shrine to this one) to cover some lapses in production value. The proceedings are never taken too seriously, and most of the vamp-snacks are sexist rednecks who deserve what they get from the fetching undead, so all in all it is a pleasing package.
If you enjoy vampires and strippers, or some combination thereof, this movie is manna from heaven.
I had the opportunity to talk to director Mark Burchett at a con last summer about VAMPS 2, and learned that the B-plus gang has upgraded equipment-wise, and from looking at the stills on the site, kept the same high level of vampiric sweethearts. As Mark pointed out, thanks to shape-shifting and evil twins, the sequel features Glori-Anne Gilbert in the Jennifer Huss role and the return of Amber Newman. Fans of the first can seek out the sequel from the same site.
Running Time: 90 min.
Director: Mark Burchett and Michael D. Fox
Writer: Mark Burchett and Michael D. Fox
Score: **
Web Site: B-Plus Productions
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John Oak Dalton is a Community Television Station Manager by day, and a DIY acolyte by night. In the 80s he made Super-8 movies and his own basement mix tapes. In the 90s he hosted a cable-access show and made his own zines and minicomics. In the 21st Century he began working with grassroots video and microcinema and writing b-movies, and has more than a dozen projects on the shelf, on screen, in development, or in production.
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