#A VAMPIRE DEATH DREAM MOVIE MOVIE#

#A VAMPIRE DEATH DREAM MOVIE MOVIE#

Needless to say, this abrupt – and dark – shift in tone left me more than a little discomfited, and wistful for the lighthearted vampire movie that wasn’t. Suddenly, we’re in the hospital watching the poor lass (who somehow survived the ordeal) being forced by the cops to look at mug shots of possible assailants. For the girl is not merely dragged into the crypt to be drained of her lifeblood, she is raped-and, as we soon learn, impregnated. Sadly, Grave of the Vampire quickly decides that it does not want to be a fun vampire-bashes-college-kids movie. When said vampire drags the screaming girl down into his recently vacated crypt, I had high hopes for much more of the same-an athletic vampire handily dispatching foolish collegians in very un-vampiric ways. After all, I was only a few minutes into the picture and already I had been blessed with a wonderfully atmospheric opening shot and vampire wrestling.

Though the Hammer Studios devotee in me cringed a bit at the unexpected camp, the very fact that the boneyard battle was so removed from the vampire film standard piqued my interest. graveyard lothario smackdown, replete with a back-breaking bodyslam on a nearby tombstone. Just as they’re about to get down to business, though, that tomb from the opening shot slowly begins to open – a gnarled hand reaching inquisitively into the night air – and before you know it were in the midst of a vampire vs. The lovers’ past history is briefly related and their reason for visiting the abode of the dead explained. But before we have a chance to get to know the revelers, we’re whisked back to the cemetery and a frisky pair of youngsters basking in the unrivaled romantic aura of the dead. From our sidewalk vantage point, it appears that the ribaldry is flowing and the good times are rolling. The mist intensifies…the camera inches its way toward the tomb…and…cut to a ’30s frat party. Blood-red credits divulge the title and players.

A vampire death dream movie