Vampire Killers (2009)
"Lesbian Vampire Killers" (original title)

Their women having been enslaved by the local pack of lesbian vampires thanks to an ancient curse, the remaining menfolk of a rural town send two hapless young lads out onto the moors as a sacrifice.

Director:

Phil Claydon

Writers:

Stewart Williams (screenplay), Paul Hupfield (screenplay)

Stars:

Silvia Colloca, James Corden, MyAnna Buring

1 win.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Silvia Colloca	...	Carmilla
Margarita Hall	...	Daughter of Darkness 1
Sianad Gregory	...	Daughter of Darkness 2
Mathew Horne	...	Jimmy
Lucy Gaskell	...	Judy
Emma Clifford	...	Ms Rossi
James Corden	...	Fletch
Travis Oliver	...	Steve
Susie Amy	...	Blonde
MyAnna Buring	...	Lotte
Louise Dylan	...	Anke
Ashley Mulheron	...	Trudi
Tiffany Mulheron	...	Heidi
John Pierce Jones	...	Landlord (as John Pierce-Jones)
Steve Clark-Hall	...	Sidney Goatherder No.7 / The Storyteller

Storyline

Centuries ago, Baron Wolfgang MacLaren vanquished the Vampire Queen Carmilla in the remote Cragwich; however, before decapitating the evil vampire, she curses the locals and descendants of the baron, swearing that every woman would turn into a lesbian vampire on the eighteenth birthday. On the present days, the clumsy and naive cuckold Jimmy is dumped again by his girlfriend Judy and misses her. His best friend Fletch is fired in his job of clown after hitting an annoying boy. The two friends are broken and decide to camp in the countryside to forget their problems, and Jimmy throws a dart in a map in a pub to decide where they should go. They head to Cragwich and when they arrive in the bar Baron's Rest, they see four hot girls leaving the place in a Kombi. The innkeeper offers the old Mircalla cottage in the woods for them, the same place the girls will lodge. Meanwhile, Lotte, Heide, Anke and Trudi have trouble with their van and Jimmy and Fletch reach them in the forest and they ...

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Plot Keywords:

vampire | lesbian | blood | britain | vampire slayer | 

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Taglines:

Two no-hopers. One cursed village. One hell of a night!

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Genres:

Action | Comedy | Horror

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for language, sexual content and horror violence

Details

Official Sites:

Official Sie [au] Official site [fr]

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Release Date:

20 March 2009 (UK)

Also Known As:

Vampire Killers

Filming Locations:

Luton Hoo Estate, Luton, Bedfordshire, England, UK

Box Office

Opening Weekend:

£648,634 (UK) (20 March 2009)

Gross:

£1,581,373 (UK) (3 April 2009)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Alliance Films, Momentum Pictures, Velvet Bite

Technical Specs

Runtime:

86 min 88 min (European Film Market)

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The film's fictional village is called Cragwich in Norfolk, England. There is actually a village in Norfolk called Cranwich, situated on the edge of Thetford Forest.

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Quotes

Fletch: Hahahahahahahaha! It's got a big metal cock for a handle!

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Connections

Spoofs Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

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Soundtracks

"Amazing Grace"
(Nesser / James)
Licensed courtesy of Universal Publishing Production Music

User Reviews

Britain's worst vampire movie, a puerile mess through and through

Of all the lame movies made by the British film industry in the past decade, LESBIAN VAMPIRE KILLERS stands as the worst of the lot. It's a godawful wannabe comedy-horror hybrid, even worse than that film Neil Morrissey made called I BOUGHT A VAMPIRE MOTORCYCLE. Some fans of James Corden and Mathew Horne – if there are any – may get a few more chuckles out of it than I did, but I think even those with the most forgiving of temperaments are going to find this hard going.

The "plot", if you can call it that, appears to have been written on the back of a beermat with as little insight as possible: two good-for-nothing blokes go on holiday to Norfolk (not that you'll recognise it) and fall foul of an ancient curse involving lesbian vampires. In fact, the plot was written around the title, but if you're hoping for a cheesy, blood-soaked B-movie in the vein of FROM DUSK TILL DAWN or TALES FROM THE CRYPT: DEMON KNIGHT, then you're going to be disappointed.

There's barely any nudity and the decision was made to have the vampire blood white instead of red, so any would-be splatter scenes are completely awful. Add in a bunch of models with hopeless acting and the kind of embarrassing computer effects that lace modern episodes of DOCTOR WHO, and you have a film which relies on the script to work. And work it could have, if the script had allowed for genuine laughs and warmth.

It doesn't. This is 'comedy' of the lowest common denominator, obsessed with dick and boob gags and without an ounce of wit anywhere to be seen. I tend to avoid modern comedy for a reason, and the supremely unfunny James Corden is precisely that reason. What makes it all the worse is that this guy thinks he's genuinely witty and amusing, when in fact most viewers will want to bash his head in with a shovel the second he appears on screen. Given the amount of screen time devoted to this guy, watching LESBIAN VAMPIRE KILLERS is a cinematic equivalent of hell on Earth.

There isn't much else to report. Horne is less irritating, but that's purely because he's playing the straight man to Corden's so-called 'gags'. The actresses are terrible in the extreme, and what Paul McGann is doing in this mess is anyone's guess – it's even worse than Queen of the Damned. It's also worse than Beyond the Rave, worse than the terrible Fred Olen Ray vampire skinflicks, worse than anything else that springs to mind. For a genuine lesbian vampire film, you could do worse than Hammer's THE VAMPIRE LOVERS to banish this travesty from your memory.