Vamp (film)
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| Directed by | Richard Wenk |
| Written by | Richard Wenk Donald Borchers |
| Starring | Chris Makepeace Grace Jones Dedee Pfeiffer Robert Rusler Gedde Watanabe Billy Drago |
| Music by | Jonathan Elias |
| Distributed by | New World Pictures |
| Release date(s) | July 18, 1986 |
| Running time | 93 min |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Vamp is a 1986 vampire film starring Grace Jones and Chris Makepeace.
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[edit] Plot
Two college students, Keith and AJ, want to hire a stripper for their college initiation party, so they go to a dark, seedy part of town to look for a good candidate. They visit a nightclub in a barren, desolate, no-mans land section where the police rarely patrol. The men do not realize that the club is run by blood thirsty, ruthless vampires and that vampires and psychopathic albino gangland thugs prowl the alleys.
They prevail on a loner named Duncan (Gedde Watanabe), to loan them his car, but he insists that in order for them to leave campus, they must become his best friends for the night and take him with them. They eventually agree and leave in his flashy red four door Cadillac sedan.
After the vampire Queen Katrina (Grace Jones) first seduces AJ (Robert Rusler) playfully at first after he takes off his shirt and lies back on her waterbed (filled with blood), by licking his chest and rubbing him up and down. She then transforms and first breaks his arm to keep him from fighting her off and then bites him, ripping savagely into his throat and viciously drinking his blood as he screams and gurgles under her and shaking violently. Finally he fades into death and his eyes glass over and his body becomes still.
Keith (Chris Makepeace) tries to locate AJ, but cannot. Finally after a long absence, AJ, now a vampire resurrect, traps Keith in the dressing room of the vampire strippers who perform at the nightclub. But soon his love for his best friend overcomes his urge to kill him and turning a formica stake into his own chest, he buys Keith time to get out of the lair of vampire strippers, throwing him the car keys and giving him a few methods to kill off any attackers.
Keith finds one potential ally; a waitress named Amaretto (Dedee Pfeiffer) who claims she knows the two men from grade school. Finally, Keith and Amaretto (who has now revealed that she is really Allison Hicks, an old schoolmate of Keith's) manage to escape up a manhole cover to reach the sunlight. As they near safety, Katrina, now in full vampire form grabs Amaretto, and threatens to kill her. Keith, a marksman with a bow and arrow takes aim, brings in the daylight and he destroys Katrina. When Amaretto and Keith try to get out of the sewer, Katrina's so called lover threatens to kill them in revenge for destroying Katrina, but AJ returns to save them both by killing him with the same formica stake that AJ used earlier. As Keith and Amaretto climb out into the now risen sunlight, AJ has to remain below them in the dark sewers. Following them below so he won't vaporize by the rays of the sun. As Keith and Amaretto walk onward, with AJ following below, the people of the area start to go about their daily personal business.
[edit] Release
The film was released theatrically in the United States by New World Pictures in July 1986. It grossed $4,941,117 at the box office.[1]
The film was released on DVD in 2001 by Anchor Bay Entertainment.[2] The company subsequently re-released it on DVD in 2005 in the Fright Pack 2 set. The film was released on Blu-ray on September 20, 2011 by Image Entertainment.
The film was released on Region 2 DVD on February 21, 2011.[3]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ "Vamp". boxofficemojo.com. http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=vamp.htm. Retrieved 2011-03-31.
- ^ "Vamp". dvdempire.com. http://www.dvdempire.com/Exec/v4_item.asp?item_id=33284. Retrieved 2011-03-31.
- ^ http://www.sfx.co.uk/2011/02/18/vamp-dvd-review/
[edit] External links
- Vamp at the Internet Movie Database
- Vamp at Allmovie
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