Director: Katt Shea
Year: 1989
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Vampire
Plot:
While traveling through the city, a lonely vampire stops off at a local stripclub where he meets an enigmatic woman contemplating suicide after her life has spiraled out of control, which causes them to spend the night reminiscing about their different lives, leading to a dark resolution.
Review:
This was a troubling if still watchable vampire romance. This one will work depending on how the reaction to the central setup appears with this one not being a traditional vampire effort but an existential drama about the zest for living. Focusing exclusively on the dialog between the two who are in the house nearly the entire time, which allows them to share their tragic and tortured lives for each other’s analysis, the gradual unearthing of their personal philosophical nature is given far more leeway than bloodsucking and vampirizations. The gradual shifts in personal life-matters and urgency the more it goes on and the more alike they find each other with how everything plays out manages to offer up the kind of emotional resonance that isn’t usually expected based on how their monologues and back-and-forth interactions play out.
However, if none of that is all that interesting or intriguing, this one plays out like an excruciating test without much in the way of anything going on. There’s no vampiric action at all in here, with no stalking, hunting, or even a genuine display of him doing anything beyond minor shots of his night-vision capabilities. The fact that so much of this is character-based interactions going back and forth looking into what makes the other tick and not focus on those other traditional qualities means that nothing much in the way of action happens as the closest anything comes to that sort of material is a steamy and genuinely erotic lovemaking scene that comes off due to the build-up between them. Still, the dearth of action and outright lack of anything most would be interested in from the realm of the genre would be a massive disappointment here.
Overview: **/5
A somewhat simplified and straightforward genre tale, the main reaction and reception to this one’s central setup will be the determining factor over whether or not to give this one a chance. Those who are interested in the style or approach taken here will be the main factor for it while those simply expecting straightforward vampire action might be disappointed in this one.
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