Have you ever wished the pretty girl-next-door would sprout fangs and have sex with you? Yeah, me too.
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
The Preppy Vampire
However, there are a few examples of vampiresses who retain their classic beauty and serve as an antidote to the above. Most good vampire movies have a trio of vampire brides whom are classically pretty with my most recent favorite being in the film Dracula 2000. Then there's the episode of the recent Superman series where the vampiress president of the local sorority has her own three brides, including a classically beautiful Erica Cerra (in flats, a skirt and a blouse!), a stunning blonde, and a third girl who probably got the role as the result of a favor of one type or another. This episode also included the exceedingly beautiful, wonderfully fanged, and wholesomely normal Kristin Kreuk. In the "reality" show The Bachelor a very pretty bachelorette appeared in fangs who in true reality is model/actress Madison McKinley. Nina Dobrev from the show Vampire Diaries also has classic preppy looks and in a recent appearance on the Conan O'Brien show she appeared dressed in an tasteful evening gown, with surely a crew of stylists who preened over her hair and makeup with great results, made even better when she donned her fangs for a bit of intensely sexy role-playing.
And now we have the fine example pictured here, a random beauty gleaned from the Internet. No excessive piercings or any tattoos to be seen, a beautiful smile and wholesome demeanor. Those wonderful quad-fangs coupled with her demure appearance make an incredibly appealing package; she's the good girl who was transformed into a vampire and she likely has some very hot secrets. For some excellent information on exactly what that is, go explore the wonderful TVTropes.org on the subject.
Friday, May 4, 2012
Alpha-Vampiress Jessica Chastain
Actress Jessica Chastain wasn't always so happy about becoming a vampire. That devil eyes, bat ears and fangs could be so feminine never even entered her thoughts. Her carefully crafted public persona depended so much on her bright and lively appearance they were inextricably entwined and the physical characteristics of a night hunting animal hardly portrayed the image of an ingenue and Hollywood starlet she so desperately strived for almost her entire life.
Unfortunately her vampire-turning happened in a manner unbecoming of her dignified persona. She was walking along the Hudson River in Manhattan when a drunken frat boy attacked her near the jogging path and when he was done he pushed her over the railing into the river thinking she was dead. She found herself washed up 3 days later next to a playground near the Lincoln Tunnel in Weehawken, New Jersey. Her first victim was a homeless man who made fun of her wet clothes and the fact she was wearing one flip-flop.
Despite her ignominious start Jessica became a well-respected actress with several highly acclaimed movies to her credit. She received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress in 2012 and was understandably named as one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people of the world! But little is known of her personal life except for what she carefully doles out to the public. Her appearance, style, and career have all been meticulously crafted and her Hollywood star trajectory took off soon after her vampirization. That was enough for her to embrace the life of being un-dead.
Jessica is still an avowed vegan except for when she sucks the blood of unwilling human victims. Though normally wholly repellent to her being it's an ordeal she enthusiastically enjoys for both the sport and what it delivers her career. It serves her canny existence to selectively develop an army of vampire minions able and willing to serve her earthly lust for power and fame. Besides turning influential members of Hollywood's power elite, she's spent a significant amount of personal time with a certain wife of a certain actor and member of the Church of Scientology, leading some to speculate theirs a relationship more than platonic.
Personally, Jessica has nonetheless expressed regrets about becoming a vampire. While still human, Jessica demonstrated all the characteristics of a post-feminist alpha-female with superior abilities and achievements. She understandably feels ambivalent about her un-dead nature even though it grants her powers beyond her dreams including immortality as a young, famous and beautiful woman. But that glory does not come without a price because soon after returning to the isle of Manhattan as a fledgling vampiress she was compelled to seek out the frat boy-vampire to demonstrate her unflailing submission to him. Unfortunately, this usually entails visits to his friend's bachelor parties along with a portable dancing pole, a midget and a unique knowledge of animal husbandry.
Sunday, March 18, 2012
How Imogen Poots Should Have Looked in "Fright Night"

Imogen's Amy was instead relegated to the secondary role as the typical damsel in distress while providing none of the gravitas that Amanda Bearse's portrayal did. There was none of the extended, tortuous transformation we saw the original Amy go through that added so much to the story. In practically the blink of an eye the new Amy was all of a sudden the vampire's bitch - not sexy at all. Not sexy either was Imogen's horrible (and I mean that in a bad way) teeth, I can't even properly call them vampire fangs. It looked like a dentist's nightmare of snaggled mess.
So instead I present The Pretty Vampire version of Imogen Poots; recent bite marks on her neck to indicate freshness, demon eyes showing she's on the prowl, a nice set of canine fangs (because that's the way it's done), and a nice, feminine top (because she's a lady).
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Christy Turlington is a Halloween Vampire

Sunday, March 27, 2011
Christy Turlington is a Very Happy Vampire
Friday, March 4, 2011
Transcendental Vampiress
I don't know what it's like in other places but there's a certain class of person who takes yoga where I live. It's usually a middle-aged white woman, nicely dressed and fit & trim, much like this lady is here. They're certainly not all nearly as pretty as she is and from her appearance we can infer a few things about her. I'd say she's from a well-to-do urban area. The trees and plants in the yard looks like California, the overly-straightened hair tells me L.A. She's got disposable income to spend on clothing and makeup (at least the stylists' budget does). She's probably an actress or ex-model and she makes the time to keep that body toned; those laugh lines around her eyes say she's mid-30's. She's like women I see every day and she's got awesome fangs.
I love this video. (Full-size video here).
Friday, February 18, 2011
What Was Wrong with 'Suck'?

It's a movie I should have thoroughly enjoyed. Suck is genuinely funny, clever, well-written and directed, and has a great list of cameo appearances. When I heard Mad Men actress Jessica Paré was going to star as a bass player in a band who gets turned into a vampiress, I was very excited about it. Jessica is a beautiful woman with a very interesting "look" about her. And Mad Men takes place in the early 1960's when ladies took extra care to look pretty and feminine, a period in which they aspired to look 'classy' in appearance. Jessica also displayed her copious breasts in the movie Hot Tub Time Machine, so my two images of her already juxtaposed very well in my mind. Add to that the prospect of her with fangs and it's a trifecta.
So everything I love about vampire movies is teed-up and ready to go: an innocent, pretty girl is transformed into a vampire and bites the shit out of lots of people and we see plenty of scenes of her with fangs. She even has devil eyes! (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
But she just wasn't sexy. Don't get me wrong, Jessica did a fantastic acting job and the makeup was fantastic, but she just didn't do it for me. I can highly recommend the movie for all the same reasons I stated at the start of this post, it's really funny and the story kept my interest throughout, (unfortunately not like 95% of all other vampire movies ever produced).
At least I was able to grab a few good caps from the movie. It's no Hammer Studios vampire babes, but Jessica Paré with fangs will do.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
The Bugs Bunny-fication of Vampires

The primary vampire fangs are supposed to be on the canine teeth, not the lateral incisors. Those teeth are acceptable when a vampiress has the coveted quad-fang configuration, but not alone. Sometimes even the rare bicuspid fang looks good.
And don't even get me started on vampire women without fangs...
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
What is Imogen Poots?

From what I've read so far, Imogen will closely follow Amanda's character Amy Peterson. Amy was the protagonist Charlie's cute and perky girlfriend he coerced to help him kill the vampire neighbor. On the fright night in question, they were out trying to kill the vampire when they were chased into a night club where all the fun began. It took about 3 seconds for Amy's first of many transformations that night. She glanced at the vampire, got mesmerized, and was out on the dance floor simulating vampire-fellatio in less than the time it took for Charlie to drop a dime into a payphone (this was the 80's, after all). Instantaneously, she lost the cute hair accessories and acquired disco-queen makeup, making her look hot and preppy at the same time. OK, so it was the makeup and her blow-job lips down at the vampire's crotch that made her look so hot.
Spoiler Alert: One of the key take-aways I got from that movie was Amy's sheer desperation after getting turned into a vampiress. In her trippy state-of-mind she got kidnapped from the nightclub by the vampire and awoke in a classic fuck-me vampire gown. In a touching scene evocative of the loss of her virginity, she lovingly acquiesced to the vampire's bite but not first without a hint of demure hesitation. The vampire pulled a total classic move by himself hesitating until she was ready (and then she was) and he penetrated her neck with both fangs until her hymen bled streams of blood trickled down her back.
Then things began to happen quickly for Amy, so stay with me here: she passed out, sweated with febrile convulsions, awoke delirious, her eyes had no iris or sclera and she already had a great set of growing fangs (totally hot); passed out again, woke up this time with yellow eyes, red hair and even bigger fangs; received psychic commands from the vampire to kill her rescuers, failed and began hysterically crying at what she'd become; decided she was really fucked now that there was no way she could rejoin the cheerleading squad at school so she decided to try a different strategy and sexed herself up even more to try and bite Charlie before he finally killed her master. All of which then brings me to Imogen.
For lack of a better term Imogen looks high class (as was Amanda/Amy). Against all social mores, she's brought down by her womanly desires to mate with the alpha-male vampire and it's a tragedy because there's no way a woman of breeding should be whoring around with the undead and sucking blood, much less any other human body parts. That's why although I think Imogen is not the classic Hollywood beauty, she's nonetheless beautiful and poised and if the movie follows the plotline of the original and she'll get penetrated and acquire a mouthful of deadly fangs and she'll burst with repressed sexuality and thus a good movie it will be. Then Imogen will be like Amy.
Monday, February 14, 2011
Christy Turlington is a Valentine Vampire
Sunday, January 2, 2011
Kristin Davis: Still a Vampire
Saturday, September 4, 2010
Kristin Davis - Sex and the City Vampiress

- Fall in love all over again with the new girls of Sex and the City Vampires. Charlotte York is back again as the straight-laced eternal optimist only this time she's out for blood! Now as the owner of an art gallery, watch as she leads her crew of three young, desirable, virtually inseparable New York vampire girls into the high-stakes New York art world. Her obedient employees include Anne Hathaway as the aspiring investigative journalist intent to use her vampire powers to get the best stories and expose the truth; AnnaLynne McCord as the tightly-wound Connecticut cousin determined to substitute and control her bloodlust with power and money; and Selena Gomez as the college intern with the heart of gold, unless she's hungry that is!
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Jennifer Morrison

This actress was unkown to me until I saw her as Kirk's mother in the latest Star Trek film and became impressed with her even more after doing a little googling. Besides making a very pretty vampire, she's educated and accomplished in her field; these are qualities that make any more woman attractive, especially an undead lady of the night.
I also wanted to mention I would like to try a little experiment; for a short while I'm welcoming pictures of your pretty women friends whom would look even better as a vampire (but then again, what woman doesn't?) The pictures must be large format (1280x1084 or larger) of an attractive woman over 18-years old. The pic must be a tight closeup of the face with good lighting and a nice smile...I can't put fangs on her if I can't see her teeth. Please peruse the other pics on this site for examples of the picture types I can work with. I'm not promising anything...time and other considerations may prevent me from vampirizing anyone. All I can say is I'll handle the pics with care and respect and do my best should I give her the vampire treatment.
Monday, February 1, 2010
Thursday, June 25, 2009
My Favorite Transformations - Part II

Losing Jill still pangs me even to this day, 3 years after the series was cancelled. She was a paragon of the pretty vampire ideal; a nice, wholesome looking girl with fangs. She could appear smokin' hot when she wanted, but for the most part she was the kind of girl that effortlessly, casually exuded sexyness, all served with an easy smile and great hair. I've got at least a dozen ad agency executives, stylists, directors and other media types who thought so too because she's the spokesmodel for Mercury cars and trucks. For as long as Mercury may be around, that is. She's the type of woman who's aspirational (as they say in the marketing biz,) pretty, yet non-threatening enough to keep the women buyers interested, but can also stop the men in their channel-surfing frenzy with her immediately impressive looks.
Jill has an athletic body (not the Madonna overly-yoga'd, sinewy kind) with those womanly curves in all the right places (read: great tits and nice ass.) She also has nice teeth and lips, the kind that when enhanced with a great set of fangs makes me swoon. Add to all that she graduated with a BS in Management (i.e., she's practical too) from NC State (...not too shabby) and I think I could love her. I can see it now...she would wear a simple black dress to the restaurant, her white pearls offset by the glint of her fangs behind a subtle shade of red liptick. The candles softly illuminating her face as she sips a glass of sparkling wine gently meeting those full lips. Just then the waiter brings over a plate of extra-rare, bleeding steak. Her eyes light up, she delicately touches both sides of the plate as if it were a present from Tiffany's and her broad smile fully reveals what I swear are even longer and sharper fangs than before. I didn't even know she could do that. But I digress.
Jill's transformation on Blade: The Series was paradoxically both brutal and pretty hot. After the usual vampire seduction-resistance cycle we've all seen, Jill is FINALLY bitten, but before she turns into a vampire she has to be killed before she dies from the bite. So the vampire takes her to a rooftop and simply drops her. She plunges the several stories and smashes through the roof of a car breaking glass and setting off alarms. Now that's a unique transformation technique!
Except when she wakes up fully vampirized she's encouraged to dress like a cheap French whore by the other vampires. Which is a fine thing if I was in love with a cheap French whore, but this is Pretty Vampire Jill Wagner and I liked her in her casual wear. It also smacked too closely of the faux-Goth conceit that for some inexplicable reason tends to associate itself with vampires when instead of Goth they should be all pretty and they instead look like fourth-rate extras from an Anne Rice movie, which in itself defines what fourth-rate actually is. I know I just alienated a whole bunch of people with that statement so let me reiterate it for those of you whom might of missed it: Anne Rice is crap. It's droll and plodding and boring and not a pretty vampire to be seen in any of her movies unless you count the very cute auburn-haired chick Marguerite Moreau in "Queen of the Damned". But she played such an idiot (which is ironic considering in real life she graduated from Vassar College...again, not too shabby) that when she was vampirized it was for way too short a time, her fangs were too small, she had crappy makeup on, and worst of all she was supposedly hot for Stuart Townsend who just creeps me the fuck out anyway, so I could barely care. But getting back to Jill Wagner, the cheap French whore look didn't work for her.
But like the Hollywood hooker with a conscience, Jill became a vampiress with one too. That meant she had the standard modern vampire conflicts we've all come to know and cherish like killing to eat, loving or hating her vampire sire, etc. So she hooked up with the eponymous Blade (wretchedly portrayed by the artist known as Sticky Fingaz -real name?, who must surely have been a primary cause for the shows' cancellation) who supplied her with a synthetic blood substitute to quell the cravings. The net effect was that every time Jill got hungry, whether it be in the shower or in front of her mom, out popped her beautiful fangs and she would moan and writhe or otherwise become so emotional it sounded like a cross between a woman in the throes of ecstacy and childbirth. In any case, it was totally hot. Especially when she was naked in the shower. Or when she vampirized her mom. With her hair pulled back. Wearing sweatpants and a strap t-shirt. With huge fangs. You don't see that too often. Incredible.
This show had huge potential, there was room for character growth and the writers could have had a great time with it. Especially interesting to me was Jill's frenemy relationship with fellow vampiress Chase (Jessica Gower, a beautifully translucent actress/model.) Early on their relationship was rife with behavior that could only have resulted in hot, sucky-sucky lesbian vampire action had the series gone on. But thanks to a worse-than-shit choice with that crap lead Sticky (ugh!), high expenses (read: good acting and writing), and low ratings (i.e., Spike TV) the show was sadly....sadly cancelled.
Still to come:
Jeri Ryan (Dracula 2000)
Rebecca Gayheart (Dusk Till Dawn)
Monday, June 8, 2009
My Favorite Transformations
The impact of the transformation can sometimes be magnified by the actresses' real-life persona or career; the more wholesome, the better. I have less desire to see a latter-day Britney or Lindsay Lohan sporting fangs than I would, for example Vanessa Hudgins from High School Musical. I take that back, I'd like to see Lindsay with fangs. And Britney for that matter, even if I needed to close my eyes and imagine the old Britney again. Neverthless, I think you get my point.

There was a simpler, pre-Internet time where the availability of erotica was severely limited. There was no way to Google "High School Musical" +tits, for example and get what you were after. Actually, it would have been more like "The Partridge Family" +tits...but again, I think you get the point. In between fapping it to the Sears catalog or your sister's copy of Seventeen there wasn't much available except for that which could be glimpsed on one of the few TV channels available. Or sneaking into the local movie theater to see what you could see which was in this case, a James Bond movie. Bond movies were the slightly kinky source of what could pass for erotica starting back in the 1960's: there was Pussy Galore and dancing gold-painted girls to titillate the mind and every introduction to a new Bond Girl was a mini-event unto itself. So it was with Maryam D'Abo in 1987's Bond movie "The Living Daylights," where she played an incredibly cute and sweet but vulnerable cellist/sniper. Yes, you read that right, cellist-slash-sniper.
So when Maryam, a Bond girl no-less, appeared in the vampire comedy (always a risky proposition) Nightlife in 1989, needless to say I was very excited. And she didn't disappoint. Cute as ever, she was unwillingly bitten and transformed. In a key scene we get to see her massive fangs (huge fangs on a chick give me the same thrill as huge tits for some guys,) so incongruous against her diminutive frame, so large and unwieldy as to impede her speech and make her lisp, it's a fabulous sight to behold.
YouTube video of Maryam d'Abo from Nightlife (1989): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0dHbInHz_M

Quite simply, this may be the sexiest, hottest, sweatiest transformation ever captured on film. Believably portrayed by 27-year old actress Amanda Peterson, a girl-next-door gets seduced by the suburban-vampire-next-door and transformed into a ravaging golden-eyed, flaming red-haired seductress sporting what may be the most unique and beautiful perky tits/fangs combination ever. The 1980's thumping synth-disco-seduction-techno-beat dance-of-death scene captures a zeitgeist moment in time like very few films have ever done in the history of all film making. Amy goes into the disco a cowering, fearful girl and exits a pouty, glammed-up, dead-eyed, coiffed Studio 54 Supermodel who came this close to giving the vampire a blow job on the dance floor. I'm certain piles of cocaine were billowing into clouds of dust somewhere just off-camera.
Once back at the vampire's lair, Amy wakes up from her disco-induced stupor clothed in the white silken gown included in every medieval beer-soaked Burgmeister's fantasy wet dream. While layers of synth-music (more gentle this time) play in the background, the allegory of Amy reluctantly, then with trepidation losing her virginity plays across the screen culminating in the piercing of her neck as blood streams down her back. Metaphor, be my muse!
Then the shit goes down. Amy is left alone to writhe on the silk-strewn floor of the bedroom. She sweats and moans like in the throes of a feverish orgasm. Her hair grows longer, then red, and when her boyfriend discovers then tries to wake her we see her languid, gold-shimmering eyes. And when her mouth drops open, there's a set of nascent fangs sprouting from those pouty blow job lips. It's unbelievably beautiful. Later the buffoonish vampire hunter inadvertently opens her door and Amy springs up like a startled and fierce animal. Her hair is sweaty and stringy and she's gleefully, sinisterly smiling and unabashedly showing us her 8 (yes!) fangs. She's growling and snarling like a lioness until the vampire hunter flashes his crucifix and she recoils in pain and horror, then starts whimpering, whining...covering her face in shame. You can almost hear that little voice inside her head, "Shit! I let that old man vampire fuck me and now I'm really screwed! I'll be the only cheerleader at school with fangs and I'll have to wear sunglasses all the time." It's then you begin to feel sorry for her except for the fact she looks so hot as a vampiress.
It's in the last scene where Amy desprately tries to kill her boyfriend as he searches for the vampire knowing that if she doesn't, her vampire master will surely do some really nasty things to her (which we'll unfortunately never get to see.) Gliding down the basement stairs, her perfect perky breasts expertly lighted from behind through her transluscent white gown, Amy surely and suddenly knows how to woo her formerly disinterested boyfriend. Looking marvelously otherworldly, she flips her hair, acts demurely and again with that adorable pouty act...she's not even trying to hide her fangs...she snaps at him with those marvelous fangs but misses. But we know what invariably happens and it's so distressing I'll spare you the details on how the boyfriend kills the vampire and the girl reverts back to normal. But there's a sequel in my mind and it has to do with where she goes to college and becomes the President of a sorority of lesbian vampires.
YouTube Club Scene: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B5HzueNeOE

Bitten by the President of a sorority of lesbian vampires, Kristen Kreuk is transformed into a bloodsucking lesbian vampiress dressed in a sexy cat costume. This episode of the recent Superman television series incongruously mixes Superman with vampires and sororities into an awesome melange of collegiate sexiness.
Suspending our disbelief, we're supposed to accept that exotic and beautiful Kristen Kreuk is the plain-Jane last-minute sorority pledge looking for a place to live whom lackadaisically applies and gets accepted to the "hottest sororoty on campus". OK, if she ends up a lesbian vampiress with fangs I'm all for it. So she does. The President makes a decision on the spot, kicks out the other pledges, tongue kisses Kristen and exchanges some blood with her and voila, Kristen has fangs. I almost passed out.
Kristen gets wild, starts partying with the girls and gets pushed down a huge flight of stairs and breaks her neck. That's when the fun begins. Her fangs pop out, her nails are like claws and her eyes are devilish. She re-adjusts herself and realizes she's going to live forever. Now it's getting even better.
At the Halloween party, Kristen is dressed in her black leather Underworld-like catsuit with furry ears, sexily dancing with a cowboy when out pop her fangs! She's ready to bite him when her best friend shows up dressed in a Catholic school girl uniform and whisks her away to a private room to admonish her for cheating on her boyfriend. Feeling a bit remorseful for what she's about to do, she apologizes to her friend, then mocks her for whipping out a crucifix, then bites her. But wait...the modus operandi for this show is you get bit, you immediately grow fangs. But her friend doesn't. She's dressed as a Catholic school girl for chissakes! WTF...this is a missed opportunity of massive proportions! This may not be getting better.
But it does. Later on she drops through a plate glass skylight, bites Superman and sucks his blood (he's doesn't become her vampire slave?) develops hybrid Supergirl/vampiress powers, fights and kills the sorority President with her heat ray eyes, then totally sends the lesbian vampiresses away. Huh? This is her opportunity to be the vampire supervampiress lesbian vampire queen! I'm not getting it...she goes back to Superman, he cures her at the last minute and all the lesbian vampires get cured except for the President who's dead and gone. Then I'm starting to think this sucks.
Except for the fact Kristen Kreuk is so goddam hot even without fangs. And with fangs she truly does have Supergirl Super Lesbian Vampire Sorority President powers and in my mind, she always will.
YouTube Clip - Drunken Lana Gets Pushed Down the Stairs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mcoJJRnwAQ&feature=related
Next Update:
Jill Wagner (Blade: The Series)
Jeri Ryan (Dracula 2000)
Rebecca Gayheart (Dusk Till Dawn)
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Jessica Simpson - The Barbie Vampire

Monday, November 10, 2008
Playboy Bunny Vampires



Playboy Bunny Vampires may seem like a good bad-movie title but be assured they do, in fact, exist. And lucky for me. Unfortunately, they're a rare species and to my knowledge have appeared in the wild only thrice: in 1971, 1996 and 2008.
1971 brought the awesome Hammer Studios production of Twins of Evil with Playmate twins Mary and Madeleine Collinson, who appeared in the October 1970 issue. In 1996 Corinna Harney acted(?) in Vampirella (see prior post). She was Playmate of the Year 1992. Then at a Halloween party in 2008, April 1997 Playboy Playmate of the Month Kelly Monaco showed up wearing a bad wig and fangs. Kelly also played a vampiress in the daytime soap opera Port Charles (1999-2003) and if anyone has pics of her from that series with fangs, please drop me a note.
Friday, November 7, 2008
Christie Brinkley


I'm pretty sure Christie Brinkley is a vampire, and by the looks of these pics I can't be the only one who thinks so. The woman has barely changed from the February 1981 Sports Illustrated cover on the left to the 2008 photo on the right. And I'm not the artist, but I'm almost certain the inspiration for the drawing in the center was that cover photo. Naturally, even when she was younger my preference was to imagine Christie as a vampire and the artist almost perfectly captured that fantasy mental image of her. She's topless and has bat wings, and there's fangs under those bloody lips. What else could anyone want in a woman?
Christie is almost 55 years old (born February 2, 1954) and although she's still bangin' hot, she's not exactly the same as she was at 26. This leads me to believe she's probably a vampire in the Elizabeth Bathory sense; she most likely regularly bathes herself in the blood of virgins. That would also mean she can't fly and probably doesn't sleep in a coffin. That's certainly a disappointment, but whatever...she's always looked great. Even without fangs.
Friday, October 24, 2008
Vampirella (1996)




I get the sense Talisa Soto is made from a recipe of pure bitch: take 1-part Sharon Stone, 1 part Jennifer Lopez (J-Lo®-brand), bake in a flaky crust of Janice Dickinson, sprinkle with unbleached hairs from Madonna's mustache; serve hot, feeds 1 large ego.
Talisa started as a model and eventually graduated to a smokin' hot version of a Bond-girl in 1989 at age 22. By 30 she must have been feeling the dark hand of her expiration date quickly approaching. Why else would she agree to act in a movie where her principle wardrobe is a cheesy pleather bikini, she turns into a bat, and she frequently grows awesome fangs? That's the perfect woman for me, but I guess none of her friends were comic book nerds as kids and thus unable to warn her of an impending disaster in-the-making. Or maybe they thought the Roger Corman-produced vehicle would be cheeky and clever and would have Hollywood cred, (them having never actually seen a Roger Corman movie), right?
Wrong. Comic book movies were not back then like they are today and as sad as it makes me feel to say, vampire movies are not a positive indication of an actresses' career success. Vampirella is certainly a step-down from a Bond film, though probably equal in stature to that video game-to-movie adaptation she did of Mortal Kombat. But somehow she must have agreed to the ridiculous pre-production drawings of Vampirella's bikini, and she probably even read at least part of the script. Remember, this is a woman who appeared on the front cover of hoity-toity Vanity Fair with her douchebag-looking hubby Benjamin Bratt. Oh, imagine her indignation when the movie was released to less-than-rave reviews and the sinister whispers of her lack of acting talent and wardrobe attire.
But, damn! she makes for one pretty vampire.





