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Vampire Sisters

2004

Brain Damage

Official Website

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On the back of the case for Vampire Sisters, there is a quote that states: "...the script is well written, the acting is good and there certainly is a lot of luscious skin."  This quote leads me to believe that my press kit came with the wrong film inside.  You see, it isn't that I didn't enjoy watching Vampire Sisters; but there are only two options left to the low budget filmmaker when it comes to vampire movies:  1) Stop making them altogether.  2) Make them as bad as you can.  Director Joe Ripple has taken what's behind door number two...and run with it!

 

Vampire Sisters takes the time trued ingredients of breasts and blood and mixes them together to form a horror soufflé that would make Joe Bob Briggs proud (and it does, as evidenced from his recommendation).  But Mr. Ripple wasn't satisfied with just two ingredients for his masterpiece, so he added two more...two more sets of breasts that is!

 

The vampire sisters, on which our film is named, are 20th century undead indeed.  You see, they run a website, named aptly enough, VampSisters.com, in which they offer the usual bevy of nudie pictures and live interactive webcam chat sessions.  But the rule on their set is, you pay to play; and the more you pay the more you get to play.  You see, they track their members to find the ones spending the most money, and then these VIPs get a little bonus...a personal invitation to visit their suburban homestead...and to get a little more intimate...

 

Now, both you and I know what happens to these late night visitors...they become vamp food.  This seems to be a pretty sweet gig for the ladies, until a police task force gets on their trail.  This special unit is faced with the task of eliminating prostitution...whether it be on the streets, or online.  When they get wind that there is an internet site that offers members "special bonuses" if they spend enough money, the alarms go off and soon they are spending some serious cash on VampSisters.com to see just what these "special bonuses" are.

 

Meanwhile, the sisters are keeping another task force busy...the missing persons division.  These ladies announce a new winner to their special contest every time they get hungry...and they get hungry a lot!  Why don't they just hunt for their food like all the other vamps?  According to sister Tasha, it has something to do with some knowledge passed on since the 14th century...blood tastes sweeter when the victim is in the state of sexual arousal.  Go figure...

 

So the ladies keep inviting gents over and dispatching of them in some decently interesting ways, all of which involve a good sexual arousing.  For the guy who likes to watch?  The three girls get it on a bit before taking care of him.  For the timid French woman who likes girl on girl action...well, lets just say she gets a good tongue lashing for her misbehavior!  And for the overweight, balding guy...

 

"What is his fantasy?"

 

"S&M! Right up our alley!"

 

"It's leather time!"

 

Leather time indeed...poor sap.  Gets a little S&M action and then the next thing he knows, some vampire chick is licking his blood off a sheet of plastic on the floor.

 

These girls are hiding one other secret, beyond the fact that they are immortal creatures that prey on the life blood of the living...they also have something REALLY nasty locked up in their garage; something that disposes of the bodies of their victims, and shakes the very foundations of the structure while doing it.  It is this foe that the

 

Basically, this entire film was written for the sole purpose of getting three chicks to take of their tops and engage in simulated sex acts.  Why don't they just wear clothes and hunt?  Blood doesn't taste good unless the victim is aroused.  How do we get them to change their outfits for every scene?  Have each victim's fantasy acted out to get him/her aroused.  Different fantasy, different outfit, right?  So where do a group of vampires hide a body a day if they are killing them in their home?  Add a creature in the garage that eats the bodies.  Why would the vamps kill their highest paying customers?  Well, the police angle doesn't work any other way.  Someone came up with a basically good idea and then Don Dohler wrote a screenplay around it to fill all the holes.

 

It's not that I would expect Oscar caliber stuff from a b-horror flick, but when I have seen films like Reign In Darkness, I know that low budget vampire flicks can be a whole lot more.  But what if this film set out to be nothing more than a skin flick?  Well, the filmmakers should have gotten themselves some ladies who were more comfortable in their own skin.  Real life Internet-starlet Syn DeVil does a fairly good job at playing a...well, vampire internet-starlet; but the other two actresses seem very stiff and wooden...they should have left that to the male victims.  Perhaps the sisters would have been a tad more sexy if they weren't forced by the director to walk around with their mouths open every time they had fangs in.  Imagine having fangs and making a scary "I'm going to bite the sh*t outta you" face.  Now hold that face for up to 3-4 minutes...it loses a little something and frankly reminds me of the mouth-breathers on my high school football team.

 

Despite its flaws, Vampire Sisters can be a good time; but viewers should be aware that enjoyment of this film necessitates letting go hopes of plot or making sense.  Thankfully, the films actresses give you plenty to take your mind off all that plot nonsense.

 

We'll just say...this one's for the guys.

 

-aaron-
 

Directed by:

Joe Ripple

 

Written by:

Don Dohler

 

Cast:

Darla Albornoz

Leanna Chamish

Syn DeVil

Bill Debrason

Jeannie Michelle Jameson

Mitch Klein

Mark Lassise

Joe Ripple

Daniel Ross

Isabelle Stephen

George Stover

Nathalie Taborda

James J. Waltz

 

DVD Features:

"Making Of" Featurette

Producer/Director Commentary

Bloopers

Trailers

 


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