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Night Fangs

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I saw this movie once, even though I didn't want to watch it for more than 5 minutes. If I could have given this piece of crap less than one star I would have....The acting was unbelievably horrid, the people were all ugly, and it was a sad excuse to show women's genitals. (I mean, really, where were the men vampires???) This movie was laughable at best, and that is the nicest thing I can possibly say. I hope the actors find other methods of making money because their futures in film appear very bleak. Why has this crap received any good reviews???? This movie just proved to me that low budget "horror" films are anything but scary

This film was only mildly scary, but it also included a very erotic woman-to-woman seduction scene that I found incredibly hot!

The whole vampire thing has been repeatedly done already, but if that's your thing this one even included a few fairly decent attacks by the undead. But that wasn't what caught my attention.

The scene I remember most happened when one of the two older lesbian women seeking a virgin asks one of her students to remain late after class. Under the guise of helping the girl to create a clay sculpture, she ends up slowly seducing the girl instead. It was one of the more creative & erotic lesbian seduction scenes I've witnessed on video. The women involved didn't look like porn stars, either. I just thought it was surprisingly hot, and definitely worth checking out!

Sadly, the seduction ends abruptly when the teacher's lesbian partner moves in to murder the girl so they can bathe in her blood. Still, I give the director high marks for an incredibly sensual and arousing girl/girl seduction scene!

I wanted to see this movie because of its tie-in to Elizabeth Bathory, one of the most infamous mass murderers in history. According to legend, this 16th century Hungarian countess killed hundreds if not thousands of young women, bathing in their blood in an effort to retain her youth and beauty. In this film, two female lovers somehow get their hands on Elizabeth's diary and attempt to follow her prescription for eternal life. Now, let's just pause for a minute here. Elizabeth Bathory died - after being bricked up inside a room of her own castle for four years. Either this whole virgin blood bath thing needs to be an ongoing thing, or she didn't really figure out the secret of eternal life after all. The important thing, though, is that our two main characters want to follow in her bloody footsteps - and just seem to assume that will mean becoming vampires.

Call me old fashioned, but I prefer my erotic naked lesbian vampires to be young and attractive. I'm not trying to be mean or anything, but that whole erotic thing falls apart when one of the lesbians happens to be older, heavier, and far less attractive than you're expecting. Now I can work with Lupe (Cyn Dulay) but Jennifer Sommers (Leslie Frank) just isn't what I'm looking for in a film like this. Put Misty Mundae in that role, and Night Fangs would be in business - and the big erotic seduction scene with a student sculptor (Amy Gonzalez), not to mention the bathtub wrestling scene, would have actually been erotic. Miss Sommers, Amy's teacher, pretty much has the hots for the talented young lass, but Lupe just can't wait to start bathing in Amy's virgin blood. Pretty soon, a fight breaks out when Lupe proposes to test their vampirehood by killing Jennifer to see if she will come back to life, and the best-laid plans of mice and lesbian vampires basically just fall apart altogether. Luckily for us, Amy's annoying boyfriend and his pals show up looking for Amy, providing fresh meat for what becomes a growing number of vampires. Even a local history professor, regretting the day he ever mentioned Vlad Tepes in class, ends up joining in the bloody fun.

On the whole, this is not a good vampire movie. The plot hangs together like loose skin on a 150-year-old man, the acting ranges from OK to the embarrassingly abysmal, I swear one particular severed body part somehow moves from one house to another for no apparent reason, and - as I already mentioned - the cast is woefully short of hot vampire babes. Then, out of nowhere, we get one of the best, goriest, vampire feeding scenes I've ever seen. There's plenty of gore to go around as the film works its way to a conclusion, and the special effects are, for the most part, slightly above average, but I just keep coming back to that one scene. It is just bloody fantastic and, in my opinion, single-handedly makes this film worth watching.

Night Fangs is pretty much Ricardo Islas' baby. Dubbed "the John Carpenter of Uruguay," he not only wrote, directed, and produced this film, he also assumed the role of the history professor turned vampire killer. I should point out that the film is in the English language, so you don't have to worry about subtitles or bad dubbing. When you really step back and take a look at Night Fangs, it's really not a very good movie, but I think it does have the potential to become something of a cult hit. It's reasonably gory, and that vampire feeding scene I mentioned is pretty dadgummed awesome, in my opinion. If some of these people could act, I would have given the film four stars.

I have to admit, for the first half hour or so of this film I was wincing at some overly broad characterizations of teens, and an early male victim is so sleazy he could have twirled his mustache and I wouldn't have batted an eye. But once the vampires start showing up the movie suddenly starts to show some real skill, and it seems that director Ricardo Islas, with his lucky thirteenth picture(!) according to the imdb, has a hand with horrific action that would make any Italian Giallo master tip his hat in respect.

A pair of "Art Teachers" become obsessed with the "blood countess" Elizabeth Bathory, Vlad Tepes' infernal soulmate who believed that bathing in the blood of virgins would keep her forever youthful and beautiful. I suppose one could argue that Bathory's method didn't work, because she was caught and put to death. But on the other hand, the countess didn't exactly reach the kind of ripe old age that would have proven if her theories were indeed correct after all, so I guess one would never really know the truth (mwahh-ahh-ahh!!!).

But these two young ladies, in particular Lupe (played by the film's producer, Cyn Dulay, with demonic relish), are determined to prove that her theories were not only correct, they actually turned her into a vampire and now they could live forever as vampires, too. Lupe's lady love Jennifer isn't really buying this, but looks at it as more as the fantasy of a partner with a rich imagination. Jennifer also spots some rich imagination and sacrificial potential in her young student Amy. She sets about to find out whether or not she's a virgin, and be warned of a spoiler ahead (proceed to the next paragraph now) this isn't the kind of horror movie where the virgin makes it out alive at the end of the picture. Lupe and Amy slit the girl's throat and bathe in her blood, and as Lupe waits lustfully for the moment of her vampiric turning, Jennifer realizes that this is no fantasy and begins to regret what she's done (too little too late, but hey, all's fair in blood and vampires, right?)

The effects, considering that this was obviously done on the cheap, are incredibly effective, and a sequence in which a vampire crawls down a wall onto an unsuspecting victim is as cool as anything you'll see in the "Blade" or "Underworld" movies. If John Carpenter decides to produce a fourth entry in his "Vampires" series, he really needs to give Islas a call.

Islas also turns up in the film as the fannishly named professor Nashy, who gets to do a variation on Gene Wilder's "whatever I say, do not let me out of this room" bit from "Young Frankenstein" in one scene, and gets to do his fair share of slaying before the picture is over.

By the end of the movie, I was completely taken by surprise at the ingenuity of the horror sequences and won over. If you're in the mood not to drink ... wine ... (sorry, I couldn't resist, I was thumbing through an old Forrest Ackerman magazine and the puns are drilled into my head!) then this neck-biter (okay, I can see the long cane coming at me so I'll just say wacka-wacka and tell you to pick this up when it gets released -- it's a pain in the neck you won't mind having (mwahh-ahh-ahh!!!!)).

This is a fantastic Indy film. With the budget they probably worked with, it's wonders how they put together the quality of film they have. If you like horror, then this is simply a must see! The filmmakers weren't afraid to take risks and stray from over conventional horror film antics. The ending is freaky and leaves you shivering a bit! Applause to the director,cast, and crew. Again, if you're a true horror fan, you have to see this film. However, if you're simply and Indy lover, or even regular movie goer, OR, if you just want to be scared - check Night Fangs out!!! However, no matter why you go... Do expect to be scared and freaked out!!!...because it's SCARY!!!