Vampirella (1996) (V)

User Rating:

3.1/10   

Director:

Jim Wynorski

Writers:

Forrest J Ackerman (comic book)
Gary Gerani (writer)

Release Date:

28 September 1996 (USA)

Genre:

Horror | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

Thirsty for justice, she'll settle for blood.

Plot:

Vampirella, a sexy vampiress in a skimpy costume, travels from Drakulon to Earth to seek revenge on the evil vampires who murdered her father...

Plot Keywords:

Vampire | Hypodermic | Satellite | Female Nudity | Las Vegas

Cast

Talisa Soto	...	Vampirella
Roger Daltrey	...	Vlad / Jamie Blood
Richard Joseph Paul	...	Adam Van Helsing
Brian Bloom	...	Demos
Corinna Harney	...	Sallah
Rusty Meyers	...	Quinn
Lee de Broux	...	Lt. Walsh
Tom Deters	...	Traxx
Jack Zavorak	...	Captain Stryker
Lenny Juliano	...	Carlos
Anne Howard	...	Stepmother
Angus Scrimm	...	High Elder
Tyde Kierney	...	Adam's Father
David B. Katz	...	Forry Ackerman
Robert Clotworthy	...	Professor Steinman

MPAA:

Rated R for violence and some nudity.

Runtime:

82 min | USA:86 min (DVD version)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Ultra Stereo

Certification:

USA:R

Filming Locations:

Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

Company:

Concorde-New Horizons

Trivia:

The character "Forry Ackerman" is a tribute to the film's associate producer, Forrest J. Ackerman, who also was the Editor of "Famous Monsters of Filmland" magazine (and also coined the title characters nickname - "Vampi").

Quotes:

Vampirella: You are much stronger than I am.
Vlad: At the risk of sounding egotistical, I am stronger than anyone.

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Troldspejlet: (#23.14)" (2000)

Soundtrack:

Bleed For Me

All batty with no bite.

Where to begin with a review of this entertainingly bad movie? Talisa "a lesson to Bond girls everywhere" Soto plays the titular character, a vamp woman who travels from her home planet of Drakulon to pursue and kill Vlad (played by Roger Daltrey). Vlad has hidden himself on Earth for many centuries after he killed a load of nice Drakulon vamps and then fled to safety. Talisa Soto wanders around in a pleasingly skimpy, red leather outfit, Roger Daltrey swishes a cape every now and again and acts hammier than a ham sandwich in Hampshire being eaten by Hammy The Hamster. Everyone has fangs that look like those plastic, joke-shop fangs and the acting is almost uniformly terrible.

Then we have a modern-day Van Helsing, heading up a team so useless that they can't find a "hidden" Vlad while he struts his stuff in Vegas under the stage name "Jamie Blood" - good grief, how many more clues do they need? Bad effects, a terrible script and, to be completely shallow for a moment, not enough gratuitous nudity for this type of drek means that it's a hard slog to get to the end. However, watch this and laugh AT it and you may have as much fun as I did.

Horror fans may also be easily pleased by the cameo appearances from Angus "The Tall Man" Scrimm and, bizarrely enough, John Landis but that's about as good as things get. One to avoid until you are in the right (intoxicated?) frame of mind.

See this if you like: Talisa Soto, the Dracula musical featured in Forgetting Sarah Marshall.