Delusions of competency
The director and scriptwriter of this dreadful "parody" (=ripoff) of the popular TV series hang themselves in the Bonus segments on the DVD, describing their work as if they were mainstream cinema giants. But the slipshod feature proves them dead wrong.
Casting Lexi Belle in the title role was a good start, as she's prettier than the mainstream actresses on film (Kristy Swanson) and TV (Sarah Michelle Gellar), but alas, her acting as well as that of the supporting cast is quite poor. The hack Lee Roy Myers who has directed dozens of these ripoffs takes a flippant tone, and lets through line readings that are relentlessly dull and unconvincing.
Despite his protests that the action/fight scenes are fabulous (they stink) and self-aggrandizing praise for the makeup effects (cheap and ugly face distortions not impressive at all as "vampires") it's all about the sex. The mechanical humping scenes are generic, and several are just tossed into the film without any relationship to the story or continuity. For example, the final hump footage of Spike (Michael Vegas with a poor accent) and busty Britney Amber as Harmony is just tacked on, unrelated to the previous two hours.
Josh Wheldon, even his stage name a ripoff, shows his kisser in the BTS short subject, and examines his contribution as if it were passable. The dialog is loaded with dumb pop culture references and name drops and errs mightily in assuming the viewer is a card-carrying cultist for the original series, rather than the actual audience of porn hounds who are addicted to the thrill of seeing familiar character they've grown up with on both big & small screen having sex, albeit through impersonators.
Both Lexi and the talented (but relegated to wearing a bad wig here) Jessie Andrews as her sidekick Willow are appealing to watch, but not here - see instead a hundred other better performances in better videos. As lead vampire I was glad to see Ash Hollywood without her ugly "scar" tattoos along her shoulder blades that she's usually sporting, and the late Amber Rayne along with luscious April O'Neil is wasted as her vampire minions. Worst of all is Kris Slater, supposedly comic relief as Xander but completely incompetent.
Casting Lexi Belle in the title role was a good start, as she's prettier than the mainstream actresses on film (Kristy Swanson) and TV (Sarah Michelle Gellar), but alas, her acting as well as that of the supporting cast is quite poor. The hack Lee Roy Myers who has directed dozens of these ripoffs takes a flippant tone, and lets through line readings that are relentlessly dull and unconvincing.
Despite his protests that the action/fight scenes are fabulous (they stink) and self-aggrandizing praise for the makeup effects (cheap and ugly face distortions not impressive at all as "vampires") it's all about the sex. The mechanical humping scenes are generic, and several are just tossed into the film without any relationship to the story or continuity. For example, the final hump footage of Spike (Michael Vegas with a poor accent) and busty Britney Amber as Harmony is just tacked on, unrelated to the previous two hours.
Josh Wheldon, even his stage name a ripoff, shows his kisser in the BTS short subject, and examines his contribution as if it were passable. The dialog is loaded with dumb pop culture references and name drops and errs mightily in assuming the viewer is a card-carrying cultist for the original series, rather than the actual audience of porn hounds who are addicted to the thrill of seeing familiar character they've grown up with on both big & small screen having sex, albeit through impersonators.
Both Lexi and the talented (but relegated to wearing a bad wig here) Jessie Andrews as her sidekick Willow are appealing to watch, but not here - see instead a hundred other better performances in better videos. As lead vampire I was glad to see Ash Hollywood without her ugly "scar" tattoos along her shoulder blades that she's usually sporting, and the late Amber Rayne along with luscious April O'Neil is wasted as her vampire minions. Worst of all is Kris Slater, supposedly comic relief as Xander but completely incompetent.
- lor_
- 9 juil. 2017