Thursday, January 20, 2022

Movie review - "The Velvet Vampire" (1971) **1/2 (re-watching)

 Stephanie Rothman's next film after Student Nurses didn't enjoy the same success, maybe because it was too arty. It's still full of interest.

Celeste Yarnall is a vampire who entices couple Michael Blodgett and Sherry Miles to her place in the desert. Yarnell is enigmatic and beautiful, everything you want in a vampire. She can walk around in the sunlight so the rules are flexible here.

There's some trippy dream sequences reminiscent of the drug scenes in Student Nurses.I liked the atmosphere and the performances of Yarnell and Blodgett. Miles lets the side down.

Silly logic issues in the last act with people following people and it doesn't make sense. Probably should've kept them in the desert.

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