pyromanticways

I bought the "2 disc collector's edition" (Tartan) of this infamous pseudo-snuff movie (I tried to watch an awful DivX copy of it before, but it was barely watchable and I gave up). I must say I expected much more from it. I found the first 45 minutes quite boring and lame; the last killings get graphic and "imaginative" though. The 2nd disc contains useless outtakes (with no audio) and 4 short films, which are not bad, especially "Ron Rico". All 4 short films have no soundtrack but a commentary (very funny at times, but dull after a while), I guess mainly due to the songs they original used, they didn't have copyrights for.

I don't understand why so many people didn't like this movie. That's probably because they're not into REAL horror films, or B-movies in general! I'm sure they'd hate Pink Flamingos too... The plot is not confusing, not less then Pulp Fiction's structure might be! I personally find this film brilliant, and the continuous changes of places/events just made it more interesting to watch. Every gross element is there to help the other side of the movie come out: a comedy! That's a creepy comedy!.. And all its oddities perfectly counterbalance fear and fun. The soundtrack is great and there are two songs of The Dictators in it: Those alone, give it a good rock n' roll injection that raise "Horror House on Highway Five" on a higher rank than many (boring) "standard" slahers I've seen! I won't spoil anything of the story, 'cause I've had a lot of fun discovering myself, piece by piece, how the different characters were going to meet in the end...

Highly recommended if you like stuff like "Criminally Insane", "Spookies", "Mosquito der Schänder", "Death Bed: The Bed That Eats"...

I remember watching "Vamp" on TV, many years ago. It was the Italian dubbed version of course, and I clearly remember it was impossible to understand what was happening on screen at times, because of a very bad lighting. I found recently the DVD for 2 euros in a street market. Wow! I usually fear the digital re-masters, because sometimes they add too much light to scenes that worked better when you couldn't see much of the low-budget SFX defects! Well, this wasn't the case... This film has an hallucinating, fantastic colouring and the DVD quality do it justice! A dreamlike space (kinda reminded me of Stephen Sayadian's "Dr. Caligari" at times), wonderful in its "very 80s", yet futuristic set designing. Katrina (Grace Jones) is beautiful: erotic as hell, disgustingly scary as well. Vic (Sandy Baron) is just... masterly! The main characters are a bit unoriginal and the plot is a little weak, but there isn't one shot I didn't like in this movie! Maybe all those pink and green lights hypnotized me... that sewer looked comfortable too! I've considered "Vamp" a mediocre horror/comedy film for about 10 years, just because I didn't really SEE this movie and I've been wise to give it a second chance! It is worth watching for its beautiful and creative shooting, setting and... yes, for the 80s college-movie's homour, the fangs, the blood, the make-up and the sexy lap dancers!

P.S. Unfortunately (just as for many other Italian DVD versions) my copy of "Vamp" has no English subtitles and the Italian ones are only a bare transcription of the dubbed version... so you're more disoriented by them than helped, whenever you can't get English words or expressions you don't know, or just too far or background talking. Yeah, I hate dubbing...