EMBRACE OF THE VAMPIRE (Anchor Bay,1995) D: Anne Goursaud, w/ Alyssa Milano, Martin Kemp. Rating: NN Blu-ray package: none
EMBRACE OF THE VAMPIRE (Anchor Bay, 2013) D: Carl Bessai, w/ Sharon Hinnendael, Victor Webster. Rating: NN Blu-ray package: none. Rating: NN
That second N in the ratings above is for those viewers – me, for instance – who think sex and horror go together like peanut butter and jam. If you disagree, shun both versions of Embrace Of The Vampire. They’re saddled with bad dialogue, wooden acting, clumsy direction and narrative incoherence.
But both feature lots of nudity and soft-core squirming including (in the original) an orgy, because the vampire keeps sending erotic visions to the virginal college student he’s fixated on.
The remake is marginally more competent, but the original’s more fun. It has more sex, and the action is driven by a wonky Gothic idea seldom seen since the original Nosferatu: the girl’s purity of heart matters. For some mystic reason, the vampire needs the love of this particular victim and sets about winning it by killing everyone around her. Worst dating strategy ever.
Without extras, we shall never know what any of them were thinking.
EXTRAS English, French audio. No subtitles.
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