Vamp (film)

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Movie
German title vamp
Original title vamp
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1986
length 93 minutes
Age rating FSK 18, 16 (cut version)
Rod
Director Richard Wenk
script Richard Wenk ,
Donald P. Borchers
production Donald P. Borchers
music Jonathan Elias
camera Elliot Davis
cut Marc Grossman
occupation

Vamp is a 1986 vampire film with Grace Jones and Chris Makepeace in the lead roles.

action

Three students Keith, AJ and Duncan are looking for a stripper for a college party, but everything goes wrong. First they get into trouble with an albino gang . When they finally find a strip club and a good stripper, they discover that the staff there are all vampires . AJ is the first to be bitten by the head vampire Katrina. He later returns from the dead and asks his friend Keith to kill him with a wooden stake. Keith fulfills his friend's wish and now wants to flee. First he sets fire to the vampire bar and then drives away with Duncan and a waitress who claims to know Keith. But Duncan has already been bitten and Keith blows him up together with the car.

Suddenly a bunch of vampires appear and Keith and the waitress have to escape into the sewer, where she also tells him who she is and how she knows him. Eventually they can find the vampires' underground hideout and set it on fire. In the end, they also manage to kill Katrina and escape.

criticism

“The story of“ Vamp ”sounds a bit like a variant of“ From Dusk Till Dawn ”, but this film was actually made well before the Tarantino / Rodriguez masterpiece. And unlike “From Dusk Till Dawn”, “Vamp” entertains little. This is due to several circumstances. For one thing, it's age isn't really good for the film. The majority of the effects just seem clearly outdated compared to the current standard of the genre and in combination with the costumes and hairstyles you don't feel like in a classic, but more like in a classic B-movie.

In addition, the actors are not really convincing. The services all seem a bit bumpy and you miss a differentiated representation of feelings. The synchronization of the film also makes the overall experience difficult to manage. In the German version of the film available to me, many of the dialogues seem rather wooden and mostly not particularly intelligent. "

- Gnislew : Sneak film - cinema with a difference

Frames

In Germany, Vamp was initially released on DVD, with only scenes of violence removed. The new edition was uncut, but was indexed .

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