A
vampiress named Angelique (Maryam D'Abo)
awakens from her coffin after being dug
up from grave robbers after 100 years and
finds herself in the modern day Mexico
City.
She has a hard time adjusting at first
but while adjusting to the new lifestyle
in the city she falls in love with a
doctor who helped her in the hospital
after fainting named David Zuckerman
(Keith Szarabajka) as he finds her not
all there after the stories she tells
him.
She runs into another problem as her
ex-lover vampire named Vlad (Ben Cross)
appears from the past and is convinced to
have her for eternity as his bride even
if it means destroying her new boyfriend
and her maid that lives with her named
Rosa Mercedes (Camille Saviola) as he
hires two mobster vampires to help him
out.
It was a hard film
to decide if this was a plain comedy or a
comedy-horror but comedy-horror suits it
well enough with some of the dark
performances.
It's good to have dark comedy to make up
for the terror involved with this film
too.
This one was almost like a take on those
Italian vampire films with a good sense
of humor too.
If you enjoyed Innocent Blood
then you might like this one too.
The acting is very
well performed as Maryam D'Abo
plays well as a vampiress trying to live
in today's lifestyle. She has wit and can
be very serious too.
Ben Cross is terrific as an evil
vampire trying to get his vampiress back
and has real aggression and coldness to
his voice.
Keith
Szarabajka has a nice playboy type
appeal to him as the good looking and
romantic doctor.
Camille Saviola is perfect with
her comedic role as the maid to D'Abo's
character bringing her character to life.
A vampire mobster
explodes after a suntanning light is
activated
Another vampires face is burned by a
suntanning light
A stake is driven through Vlad's heart
but it's really not bloody at all.
Daniel Taplitz directs
this piece wonderfully as he brings alot
of wit to the film as well as the
seriousness too.
He has a great close up shot on Maryam
D'Abo after she rises from her
coffin with her fangs being revealed
after awakening and dug up from her
grave.
She shows nice frightened expressions
while walking in the street trying to
understand the present day. She's
expecially funny while encountering a bug
and freaks out. She also knows how to
faint making it look good too.
He shows a great inmpression between
D'Abo and Camille Saviola
when they both have a discussion for the
first time working together in a new
apartment and D'Abo telling Saviola's
character about her lifestyle as it seems
unnormal.
We see a perfect setting with a dialogue
sequence between D'Abo and Keith
Szarabajka in a boat together trying
to settle for a romance. We have a funny
scene with them when D'Abo tells
him about not being buried too deep into
the ground and him trying to understand
what the hell she's talking about.
There's a very powerful and strong
dialogue between D'Abo and Ben
Cross with their dispute towards one
another and Cross shows great
anger and aggrssion to all this when he
wants her back as his bride.
A camera pans on Szarabajka walking
down a sidewalk in the mist as if someone
is stalking him which looks fairly dark.
We see a nice shot on D'Abo when
she exposes her fangs ready to attack her
maid played by Saviola and she
lets out a nice scream. This was of
course a dream sequence but it was
effective regardless.
Another dark setting takes place after Szarabajka's
character encounter's the head
vampire Vlad played by Cross of
course.
Szarabajka has believeable
hyperactive energy the next day after
taking sample's of Vlad's blood in his
labratory.
A scene I thought was too corny was the
dialogue between Szarabajka and Jesse
Corti when they enter Vlad's castle
as it looks way too comedic which boggles
your mind wondering if this is just a
straight comedy.
However, it makes up the comedy after Szarabajka
and Cross have a vampire battle
in the castle.
There's also nice locations of the city
of Mexico that is shot in this film too.
Dana Kaproff plays
some nice sexy saxophone music in the
film as well as some icy keyboard playing
which gives the film a nice touch.
A song that was overly played in the
miovie was the golden oldie "I Put a
Spell on You"
Vlad
(After a stake is driven
through his heart): Angelique....
You've broken my heart.
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