Product Details

• Actors: Paul McGann, James Corden, MyAnna Buring, Silvia Colloca, Margarita Hall
• Directors: Phil Claydon
• Writers: Paul Hupfield, Stewart Williams
• Producers: Angad Paul, Charles Layton, Claus Clausen, Eliane Huss, Glenn M. Stewart
• Format: Color, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Weinstein Company
• DVD Release Date: December 29, 2009
• Run Time: 85 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B002K0WBVO
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #83,360 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Vampire Killers" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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Studio: Uni Dist Corp (music) Release Date: 12/29/2009

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Well made and way better than critics say, February 5, 2010

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Philip C. Perron "Philip" (New England, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Vampire Killers (DVD)

Okay, another vampire film ... again. And another attempt at a comedy-horror film ... again. And critics were mixed on whether this was worth your time or simply mediocre. Well, to be honest, going in expecting just an average film at best actually made me come out saying "that film was great" and for all the good reasons!!!

This is an English film which at times follows the same line as Shaun of the Dead but instead of zombies our antagonists are vampires (or more correctly, lesbian vampires). The stars are two blokes, one who just broke up with his girlfriend and another who wishes he had a girlfriend. With the sadness that comes from being dumped, our hero decides they should take a trip hiking just to get away and clear his head, so they randomly pick a place out in the rural section of England. Unbeknownst to our heroes they land up in a village cursed by an ancient vampiress Camilla (see LeFanu's novella) where all woman who turn 18 become walkers of the dead. At the same time our heroes arrive, a group of college co-eds are in the town to write a paper on the folklore around Camilla and her "legacy". So begins a film of many things: a sex comedy, a gothic horror film, a British slapstick movie, and a gore fest, and to a lesser extent, an exploitation film. One would think that a film with lesbian vampires would be no more than exploitation but oddly it is not. Marketing of the film played on this but the film makers only followed the lead while mostly keeping it in the background as they followed the other paths that this film could follow.

I must admit this film was good in every way. First off, the film makers really got a great gothic and horror feel to it that you'd have seen in the old Universal horror films or the old Hammer horror films. The film is pure atmosphere. Second, the comedy works and it works well. There is the juvenile moments (see sword and sword handle) but you'll be laughing out loud. With the character of the vicar playing the film straight, the movie truly worked as British comedies do. Third, not once was I at a point that I felt I should shut off the film and do something else. I was engrossed throughout. To conclude, the film was just plain good fun.

For eye candy, the blood and boobs crowd will be delighted. It has absolutely beautiful women throughout and dressed in revealing if not fully revealing outfits. And the gore is everywhere. Many deaths and they are done quite well with excellent special effects. The whole film is obviously tongue in cheek so the violence is supposed to be a bit over the top. The music is mostly orchestral so you don't get the annoying soundtracks that you would in most films like this. I'd go in watching this film with an open mind, ignoring what the critics have mostly said. You'll come out delighted since it is a fun wild ride of entertainment and truly a good hour and a half of a flick. Enjoy.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Shaun of the Bloodsucking Lesbians, January 4, 2010

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Captain Insanity "Horror Happy Hour" (NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Vampire Killers (DVD)

(Add 1 star to my review if you loved Shaun of the Dead.)
A lot of horror seems to be pouring out of merry old England as of late.
Both serious (28 Days later, Dog Soldiers, The Descent, Broken, The Devils Chair,
Eden Lake, Book of Blood, Mum & Dad, The Children, Zombie Diaries, Gnaw, etc.)
And comical (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, The Cottage, I Sell the Dead, Severance, Botched, Small Town Folk)
When I fist read about this flick it's title was Lesbian Vampire Killers,
what happened between then & now I have no idea.
Apparently they decided the vampires weren't lesbian enough.
I think it would find more of an audience if it instead kept it's original title, because it has a hilarious ring to it. (LVK)
Almost like a spoof on the Polanski title (Fearless Vampire Killers)
As it stands the title "Vampire Killers" is a little generic. (but so is the plot, no thinking required)
But that's beside the point.
What you really want to know is... Is it funny & scary?
Sort of and No.
You'll get a chuckle or two, but expect your sides to stay firmly intact. (I will admit though.. the lesbian killing sword borders on hilarious)
With horredies* like Shaun of the Dead, Severance, The Cottage, & Botched coming from that neck of the woods,
(and this is just talking one country now)
the makers of this film really should have put in more of an effort to get people laughing, or at least had the decency to throw some gore at us.
Instead we get some white-jelly vampire vomit.
I mean you feel kind of cheated when there's more white-jelly vampire vomit on-screen that actual gore.
The settings, the atmosphere, the scores, & the cinematography were all spot-on, beautiful in fact, so there's that to look forward to.
So why the three stars?
Mediocrity.
The addition of lesbians to a story we've seen more times than our own grandmother, does not a good movie make. (Did I say that right?)
Yeah they were HOT, with a capital OH MY GOD!! but they just weren't... nearly.... naked enough.
At least for my perverse tastes.
The duo who wrote the script used to be producers for MTV at the time, so that should speak volumes... upon volumes.... upon volumes.
This flick seems to want to capitalize on the fame of Shaun of the Dead, but doesn't seem to have the love for the source material that that flick had.
This is a loveless affair... but it's one, at the very least, my wife enjoyed.

MORAL OF THE STORY:
To kill a lesbian vampire one must penetrate their lesbian heart.

ALSO RECOMMENDED:
Shaun of the Dead, Black Sheep, Severance, Botched, The Cottage, Fright Night, From Dusk Till Dawn,
Bordello of Blood, Bad Taste, Dead Alive, The Frighteners, Return of the Living Dead Part 1 & 2, Jack Brooks Monster Slayer

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great British humor disguised as horror, July 15, 2010

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Vampire Hunters was originally released and panned as really bad schlocky horror by critics who missed the entire point of the film. It's not a horror film. It's a comedy disguised as a horror film.

Part of the problem, which was off putting to critics before the film even started, was confusion caused by the name. Originally released as "Lesbian Vampire Killers" many people were not sure if the film was about lesbians who killed vampires or people who killed lesbian vampires. The rename on the DVD release clears up the confusion.

The idea is that an isolated rural village has existed for centuries under a curse that all of its daughters, at age 18 are transformed into lesbian vampires who then haunt the woods around the town. To prevent their turned daughters from munching on the townsfolk, they feed them a steady diet of clueless tourists, waiting until the day a descendant of the knight who slew the first vamp appears and ends the curse.

Into this come James Cordon and Matthew Horne, two luckless sad sacks on a hiking holiday, because they don't have the cash for a real vacation. Like all other strangers to town they are directed to the village `guest house' which to their joy is also inhabited by 4 drop dead gorgeous, Nordic college students there to study the folklore of the place. As night falls and the town's daughters start to close in the situation rapidly becomes one of wondering if the sad sacks will become happy meals and the students become drop undead gorgeous.

As the film rolls we learn Horne is the last descendant of the original knight and while he can't stand up to his mentally abusive girl friend, he's now supposed to stand up to the queen of vampires. Even better is Cordon, fired from his job as a party clown because he doesn't like children, who teams up with a local priest, Paul McGann, to take on evil

McGann thinks he's the new Van Helsing when in fact he can't even control his 17 year old daughter, Cordon is the everyman who is caught up in the situation he never wanted to be in, Horne chose the vacation spot, and Horne is looking for a chance to deliver a really big "I told you so." He regularly gets the commentary, like "They're dead and they'd still rather do each other than me." The conversation between him and the vicar, when the vicar is telling him how to kill vampires is clearly a parody of any training montage from any movie.
"Crosses"
"I know"
"Holy Water"
"I know, I know! Everyone knows this!"

This is not Shakespeare. It is not something to take seriously. What it is, is fun. It is silly and sexy and worth curling up with some popcorn and a drink and a friend and having a laugh, and that's not a bad thing, is it?