Theresa & Allison

I saw this movie only because I was watching a horror movie on Amazon and got busy and this one started up next. It is the story of a young woman named Theresa that gets quite drunk one night and falls victim to a female vampire. The vampire gets drunk, yes drunk, from the alcohol in Theresa's blood and ends up turning her so she does not die. Theresa ends up struggling with being a once pacifist to now having to take lives for sustenance. Enter Allison, a woman born in the seventies and turned when she was 20 something, who tries to educate Theresa.

OK, first of all, Allison kept saying that she would be an old grandma in a nursing home instead of young and beautiful has she not been turned. Both of these statements are factually incorrect. Being in your 40s does not relegate someone to a nursing home, clearly whoever wrote this was terrible at math. Also, the actress playing Allison was not what I would call beautiful, but that is of course in the eye of the beholder.

All of the interactions between Theresa and the other vampires she encounters seem forced, not organic. There was absolutely no reason for Allison to seek her out, nor was there any reason for Allison's ex-boyfriend to also seek Theresa out. There is also a lot of pro gay/lesbian thematic elements here and the movie treats straight men like they are monsters that do not care who the woman is, they automatically want to sleep with them.

The writing was terrible and the acting was not much better, especially from the supporting cast. Anyone rating this film higher than a 5 must be associated with the movie or a friend of someone that was. Do not believe them. If you are looking for a good erotic horror, this is not it. If you are looking for a movie with plenty of nudity then this is that film, but do not expect it to be very arousing as even the sex scenes were shot without any artistic lens or believably.

A low budget production reminiscent of early Giallo or Fantastique, both in terms of its theme and the exuding naivete, and made contemporary through utilisation of the fact that, in the meantime, the boundaries were pushed much higher. There is some evident enthusiasm which tries to compensate for the lack of skill and the low budget, but that was insufficient to make the viewing any much more enjoyable. Mostly female cast performance ranged from competent (lead and support) to not so (bits and extras), with exception of the male principal, who pocketed this role on some other merit. Congruent with the theme, there was quite a bit of blood and gore, but this never feels overwhelming for the average connoisseur of the genre. The same goes for the sex and nudity, which were measured and in the function of the story. So, in conclusion, this 3/10-star genre movie caters to a specific viewer for whom it might be of some interest, while the others would find it a waste of time...unless you are a pubescent boy (or a girl?). Oh, yes, and this blatant upvoting fools no one. No, it's not a 10-star movie by any stretch of the imagination.

I had no idea this was a vampire movie. It has been a long time since I have seen a good vampire movie (2o years +) but this was pretty good. Acting was great and the story line kept me intrigued the whole time

6.9

Please sue your "film school" for malpractice instead of subjecting your audience to another awful film where you managed to omit having a narrative. And keep that barista job.

This could have been a really good movie, but I don't think they knew what to do with it. Theresa gets turned (into a vampire) and winds up at a registration place. It seems that vampires are known, and there are rules to follow, and then they are left alone simply as just one more predator in society. She is told to forget about what she saw in the movies about vampires. As far as the victim's bodies "we have people who handle that." She is told she is now forever 17, and will never age. She meets Allison, who becomes her guide to help her adjust to her new experience. "Don't feel bad, it is what we are." Her sense of smell and taste will be heightened. Children are extremely delicious, but that was more in the past as we are now in the time of Amber alerts and Nancy Glass. Theresa's first kills are told in flashbacks until she got registered. The story telling just turns into a mess and things are thrown in that really detract from the story. And a lot of that is that the movie is simply too long for what they had, so it got padded. It should have been more about the rules they needed to follow to live among the others, instead of throwing in the party scenes and the 'Mother". That would have been a chance for a fish out of water type of humor.