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Reply Subj: The 80's had two of the best vampire films ever... Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2010 at 04:44:34 pm EDT (Viewed 398 times) | |||||||
... Is that both of those films were total deconstructions of the vampire genre, so two of the best vampire movies ever were created to make fun of vampire movies.  And there had indeed been lesbian vampire films before Vamp - everything from The Hunger all the way back to those sleazy '70s knockoffs of the Hammer horror films basically took it as a given that being bitten by a vampire would turn any woman into a lesbian - but I'll be damned if I can find any films earlier than 1986 (when Vamp was released) that actually featured vampires operating out of a strip club. Hell, it remained such a novel idea that, when Quentin Tarantino recycled the concept for the original From Dusk Till Dawn exactly one decade later, moviegoing audiences still treated it like it was fresh and inventive. Indeed, it was so new in 1986 that Sandy Baron (Jack Klompus from Seinfeld) devoted this whole speech in Vamp to explaining WHY a pack of vampires were operating out of a strip club: "We get away with it because nobody's gonna come lookin' for these folks here, because nobody tells anybody that they're going to a strip club! Look around you ... these people are the dregs, the degenerates, the sickos, the scum of the earth. Nobody's gonna miss 'em. Truth be told, we're doing society a favor ... we're just taking out the trash." Granted, the character who's delivering this speech is a sleazy strip club owner who leeches like a parasite off a queen vampire and is constantly making laughably inept attempts at emulating the style of the gangster nightclubs in Las Vegas, a city he's never even visited, so he has little room to talk, but still, back when it was still considered out of the ordinary to see an onscreen vampire shacking up somewhere outside of a mansion or a castle, it was a cute concept. | |||||||
