Product Details

• Actors: Eileen Daly, Christopher Adamson, Jonathan Coote, Kevin Howarth, David Warbeck
• Directors: Jake West
• Writers: Jake West
• Producers: Jake West, David West, Laurence Guinness, Marvin Gleicher, Rob Mercer
• Format: Color, DVD, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Unapix / a-Pix Ent.
• DVD Release Date: February 14, 2000
• Run Time: 101 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (44 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 1578482399
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #128,609 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Razor Blade Smile" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

The real truth about their mysterious adversary--a vampire--would "rip your mind's fragile hinges," the death's-head CEO of a secret society (Christopher Adamson) warns a human henchman. Your mind's fragile hinges have little to fear from this vampire-action-sexploitation hybrid. Director-writer-editor Jake West desperately tricks up his one-man opus in tech glam: sexpot Lilith Silver evolves from 19th-century vampire victim to modern-day hitwoman in black-and-white, color, freeze-frame, fast and slow motion, cartoon FX, overblown Freudian dreams.

There are moments: in the James Bond-style credit sequence, Lilith's fanged mouth yawns wide, disgorging a veritable blizzard of razor blades. And in the black-and-white prelude, West's camera looks down on his voluptuous vampire, sprawled on a bed, the only color the scarlet drenching her dress, bloodying her mouth. But "artsy" razzle-dazzle can't distract from Razor Blade Smile's overall failure to arouse horror, lust, humor, or any other redeeming response. First-timer Eileen Daley makes Lilith so soignee and hip it hurts; her femme fatale's couture runs to multizippered, skintight black leather, shades, fur hats; the picture's completed by ebony mane, cheekbones to die for, and an extraordinarily mobile mouth with alarming overbite. Lilith kills time at a vampire/goth bar, shagging lesbian or stud, but what she really lives for are century-long power games played with the love of her life--er, death. This cynical horror flick punctures the very conventions that are the genre's lifeblood: encouraging egregious mugging and milking portentousness from every remark, Smile reduces the primal sex-death themes of authentic vampire fiction to kiss kiss/bang bang/bite bite. --Kathleen Murphy

Customer Reviews

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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sexy Vamp with a gothic feel, December 16, 1999

By	D. Shamon (Pembroke Pines, FL United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Razor Blade Smile (Unrated Edition) [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Forget the detractors on this B-flick. This is a Well made fun movie. Also lead Actress Eileen Daly is absolutely delicious as Lilith Silver. She can drain me anytime. The campy fun during this film can be found throughout. Lilith just loves the blood, and from what I read Eileen drank it like water during the shoot. A word of advice for parents, this is a very violent and sexual film, especially the unrated version. For those of you who are looking for another Blade, or Interview with the Vampire, don't bother, cause this is a B-movie in the true sense of the word. No big budget, in fact the 20,000 pound budget, Appx 35,000 US was far less than the touted Blair Witch Project. Best tip: Get a bunch of friends together in a living room, aquire a lot of salty popcorn, turn down the lights and watch. To think that the budget of this was less than the one day catering bill for Titanic!

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Sex, Blood, and Rock 'n' Roll, November 19, 2002

By	D. Smithee "Universal Daddy" (Washington, DC USA) - See all my reviews

About a week ago I was sitting in the Washington, DC bar Asylum in the checkered Adams Morgan neighborhood. Sitting there with a glass of water, watching my friends get drunk, I noticed an unusual movie playing on one of the televisions. The sound wasn't on, but the imagery presented, backed with the bar's heavy metal and gothic music pounding in the background captivated me.

The movie was Razor Blade Smile (1998), independent fare from England. OK, it looked bad, but I had to see this thing in full. The DVD arrived today.

Having just watched the closing credits (and a little surprise when they're done) I realize this is a mish mosh of atrocious acting, bad editing, horrible effects and abundant slickness that comes together and works much better than it should.

The tale is of a 150 year old vampire "Lilith Silver" who is bored to tears and fills her time by knocking off people for money. Yes, she is a hit-vamp. Her current boy-toy employer has her knocking off people who wear rings with eyeballs in them. When she finally gets curious and asks a contact of hers about them, she learns they belong to a group called The Illuminati, a mysterious cabal that has inundated itself into the world's power structures.

It turns out that Sethane Blake, the ancient vamp who turned our murderous vixen into a blood sucking (and other sucking) fiend heads this group and has also contracted out Lilith's boss to rub out the lower members of his frat house. If this sounds at all interesting, see it. It's quite entertaining if you don't take it too seriously.

The stars are basically no one. Eileen Daly (Lillith) did a few minor roles and is known as the "Redemption Girl". Christopher Adamson (Sethane) is trying to be the next Christopher Lee. He doesn't have suave good looks, incredibly sexy voice, and his skin is bad. David Warbeck (The Horror Movie Man) appears to have had something of a career, but died before the film was released. He doesn't have to worry about appearing in a sequel.

There are lots of effects. None of them are memorable. Someone on some said it looked as if director Jake West got his hands on some video editing software and went nuts. There's black and white, kooky color with lots of blue and red contrasting, grainy picutre, bad focus, slow motion, fast motion, jerky fast motion, lots of fire, blood, a few stakes, computers, guns, rubber, mylar, sunglasses, a lesbian scene in catsuits (OK, that's not an effect, but it was pretty damn hot and coming from me, that's saying something), a few decapitations and a guy blowing his brains out.

And in the end, all is not what it seems. In fact nothing is as it seems. It's like a bad car wreck. You just can't look away. Oh, and don't leave before the credits end.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A wicked Film, December 7, 2004

By	ian - See all my reviews

This review is from: Razor Blade Smile (Unrated Edition) [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I am a huge horror movie fan but have never been remotely interested in Vampire flicks until now. I bought this film originally in VHS format and loved it !!!! When I saw it had been at last released on DVD Special Edition I got it straight away!!! Even without special features this film is superb and well worth owning, but the addition of the short film made by Jake West as a part of his graduation makes it an absolute MUST HAVE !!!!! Club Death is a clever, cool and smart little movie that easily puts some of the Rubbish churned out by the eternal Hollywood machine to shame !!!! The documentary on the making of both these films is terrific and fun to watch !!!! It is of constant amusement to me just how many people there are around who constantly vent their spleen when they write a review on the internet who have absolutely NO IDEA what they are talking about!!! Jake West deserves an award of some description just for having the sheer guts and full on determination to pull off such a brilliant project!!! Let alone the fact that he actually managed to get HIS OWN movie into central London cinemas!!! I seriously doubt whether this is a FEAT we will be seeing too much of in the future history of movie going as The Hollywood Machine has everything sewn up NICELY!!!! I LUV THIS MOVIE !!!! Dare I suggest the word Sequel ?!!! Lilith Silver SHOULD RETURN!!