Grace Jones-I love YOU-Katrina is SUPER!
Super slow, 2 movies in 1 with not a whole lot of substance. College kids looking to hire a stripper end up in an "wonderland" after spinning out of control in the city, end up in a different neon lit world with vampires, strippers, creepy old dudes and one whacky adventure to... Kinda nowhere. Movie doesn't really do much in the way of excitement. Pretty low on the humor and horror
Starts off one kind of movie (road trip after a poor mans Skull And Bones initiation ceremony) then changes during a trip to a strip club. Simular to From Dusk Till Dawn. Did From Dusk Till Dawn copy? The humour is spread out throughout but starts off more comedy then later a horror. It's a visually colourful movie. The female vampires and actress Dedee are very attractive. Lots of sexuality in this movie. The main characters are fun to watch. Vic was especially funny and warm. I could listen to him all night. The bad part of the movie is the type of horror used later on. Instead of being elevated in excitement and horror it felt slow and old fashioned. No creativity or tension during the vampire fighting or escaping. It could have been super but it wasn't bad. I'll always have the image of hot vampire in that outfit at the bar...
Best comedy-horror movie of the 80s!!!!!
Review by BronsonBlockedParent2024-01-21T07:12:16Z
There aren't many movies I would describe as insultingly bad, but this is definitely one of them.
This... what is this? It's not scary enough to be horror, not funny enough to be comedy. There was a moment when I thought the goal was dark comedy, but no, it's just poorly made.
This begins like a goofy '80s movie, where college guys are off to find a stripper for their frat house. This takes them to the worst strip club in the sketchiest part of town.
There is so much weirdness packed in here, however none of it adds up. Our lead vampire, Katrina, doesn't talk; there is nothing interesting about her, and it's alluded to three times that she's Egyptian. Why are we bending lore? Mummies are Egyptian, vampires are Transylvanian. Get it right!
The movie is a mess of odd camera angles, bad writing, Suspiria lighting, and huge tonal jumps. I mean, I think they were going for a Big Trouble in Little China feel, but completely missed the mark - shockingly, Vamp was released only sixteen days after Big Trouble. I could almost appreciate the surreal direction in which this was made, but since none of it works, it just comes across like a jumbled nightmare.
Probably the worst part here is Duncan. He's in the movie as the wacky guy. While Gedde Watanabe was used in several '80s movies for the exact same purpose, it simply doesn't work here.
If you want to see a funny horror movie with vampires at a strip club, watch From Dusk 'til Dawn.