Song of the Vampire

Wanting to find his true love, a man sells his soul to become a vampire and awakens a century later to target and torment a woman who he feels was taken from him years ago, sending him out to find her in the middle of a battle with her abusive ex-husband and bringing them together.

This was a solid enough romantic-themed vampire effort. Among the better features here is an intriguing and rather impactful storyline that manages to provide a fun time overall. The initial setup of the vampire looking to sell his soul to ensure he can return to find the woman he loved who's now reincarnated as a random woman in modern times who's starting to become overwhelmed by a series of dreams and hallucinations depicting both her past abusive relationships and the life she had with the vampire works incredibly well. This creates a great impetus for why he would want to track her down and reunite based on his belief in their past while also giving a reason why she becomes receptive to his charms once the rampage brings them together. None of it stands out beyond doing a necessary job of explaining why they come together as they do since the later scenes involving the couple reuniting again have the build-up required to be quite somewhat enjoyable. With a strong setup allowing for some decent stalking scenes with some decent enough gore involved, this gets some decent enough positives. There are some issues to be had with this one. The main drawback here is the agonizingly slow pace and tempo that comes about trying to make for an epic look and feel only to drag the running time out needlessly. So many scenes here, whether it's the genuinely slow nature of how the conversations are carried out or the inclusion of actual slow-motion sequences into the setup which are awkwardly injected into the film and don't mean much and do nothing but carry out the running time far more than needed. This could've been trimmed out so it's not as irritating as how long it takes to get going with these factors, keeping the running time too long for its own good. As well, there's also the lowered intimidation of the vampire that causes this to fall as there's not much threatening action in the middle section of this one due to taking up the romantic angle with him trying to seduce her and make her see how she's the reanimated lover in his former life which drains the fear completely out of this one. With the low-budget nature of this one creeping in as well, these all come together to hold this one down.

Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Violence and Graphic Language.

I love vampire films, but this one had nothing new to add to the genre. On top of being painfully low budget, the boom mic dips into every other scene. Why wasn't this caught in editing? The story is predictable and awkwardly slow paced. The vampire, who is supposed to be a good guy, takes some peoples lives without a second thought. It doesn't really make any sense.

To be honest, I got this movie on DVD because I am a huge fan of Denice Duff's work on the Subspecies series. In Subspecies, she's hauntingly beautiful, and was the perfect vampire. I was hungry to see more of her. In this film however, she is not a vampire, and her character is pretty weak. She does have one love scene which is unfortunately PG-13.

Pretty lame overall. I'd recommend skipping this movie and picking up Subspecies instead.

"...I love you, I just don't want to be like you!...if you damned my soul, I would hate you forever!!!!" - Victoria.

This low budget, yet surprisingly fun, campy-vampy bloodsucker is clearly inspired by B-maestro Ted Nicolaou's creepy Gothic DTV classic 'Vampire Journals', with supreme scream dream Denice Duff also having shone no less brightly in Nicolaou's immortal cult horror classic 'Subspecies 2', and as the demonstratively capable director/star of 'Vampire Resurrection', the estimable Duff is 'mostly' successful at maintaining the altogether tricky balance between blackly comedic B-Movie buffoonery, bodice-ripping Gothic Romance, and blood-slaked, moonlit Anne Rice vamping about! Duff's tantalizingly toothsome noughties Nosferatu neck-biter 'Vampire Resurrection' is of a suitably full-blooded vampire vintage, whereby handsome, Byronic, love-lorn Jonathan (James Horan) awakens from a disorientating 100 year slumber in order to seek out his unsuspecting soulmate Victoria (Denice Duff), Jonathan's earnest search for love being fraught with misadventure since Victoria's sadistic, on-parole ex-husband Marty (Frank Bruyenbroek) has darker, far less romantic intentions for the increasingly beleaguered Victoria!

While aesthetically hindered by a meagre budget, ardent B-Vampire fangs should still find much grisly Gothic goodness to sink their terror-teeth into, with the refined aristocratic performance from James Horan as Victoria's deathly pale, earnest vampire paramour tormented by a lover's warm heart, being sympathetically complemented by another beguiling performance by the exquisite and always engaging Denice Duff. Perhaps no undiscovered horror classic, 'Vampire Resurrection' is well worth the effort to dig up, as what the likable indie-feature lacks in expensive Hollywood gloss is generously compensated with its D. I. Y charm, inspired use of lo-fi practical FX, laudably brisk pacing, and the lively, uniformly committed performances of a quality cast effectively makes for a darkly romantic midnight movie, and pretty darn essential viewing for fans of the delectable Denice Duff.

'There's much more than buxom young Victoria's life at stake in Denice Duff's bodice-rippingly righteous boudoir bloodbath 'Vampire Resurrection' - Goosey Lucy / Buxom Bloodfiends.

Ok, someone else pointed out the goofs. I did see the microphone dip in about 10 different times, but I didn't see the stage hand. Other than that, this movie held me for one original reason: I see as many vampire movies as possible, and this is the first one that I remember where the woman fell for the vampire BUT she wanted to remain mortal. They've been dating for several nights--him vampire and she human-- and that's how she wanted to keep it. Whenever a woman "gives" herself to a vampire and willingly becomes one herself, it never works out. Denice's character was smarter than that. I'm also not a fan of "good-guy" vampires, but Jonathon is a rare exception. No, he's not good when he killed cops and the innocent old gardener, but it was classy of him to spare Aunt Z 3 times for his lover's sake. Orville from Every Which Way but Loose throws in some comic relief, and makes the film good in my view. So laugh at Geoffrey and all the boom-mikes hanging down, but enjoy the rest !

This was a surprisingly good vampire film. If you like Denice in the Subspecies movies you will not be disappointed. She did an admirable job of both Director and lead Actress. It has the feel of a mid-1990's Full Moon picture, dark and gothic. A nice twist away from the standard script that one would expect. The romance is heavy in the plot, but I think it worked quite well. Geoffrey Lewis plays a memorable and often funny role as the mortician/coroner. The performance by James Horan as the sole Vampire was amazing...he reminded me very much of Jonathon Morris in "Vampire Journals" directed by Ted Nicolaou.

Song of The Vampire has been released on DVD as "Vampire Resurrection" from Shadow Entertainment. It contains over 30 minutes of Deleted & Extended scenes, Bloopers, Trailers, Photo montage, and full-length commentary by Denice Duff ... what more could you possibly ask for?!?!!!