the VELVET VAMPIRE (1971)

RCMerchant · October 21, 2019, 07:27:43 AM

Ugh...ok, here goes...

A hippy couple get stranded out in the desert with a creepy vampire chick who can ride around in a dune buggy in broad daylight. She seduces (aka f**ks) the guy, tries to get it on with the girl, and we get weird dreams of a bed in the desert (?). Doesn't make a lot of sense, but the ending was pretty cool!
Crazy hippy horror from the early 70's! I enjoyed it ok enuff...nothing to write home about.

claws · October 21, 2019, 07:35:07 AM

According to wiki it has a cult following, and I can see why. It has its share of artsy moments.

RCMerchant · October 21, 2019, 07:52:15 AM

There is a part where the woman catches her hubby doing the hibbity jibbity with the vampire girl, and confronts him the next day. "So what?! I got laid!" "I forgive you."

WTF?

I really don't get hippies.

Alex · October 21, 2019, 08:10:05 AM

Free love?

RCMerchant · October 21, 2019, 09:03:15 AM

Quote from: Alex on October 21, 2019, 08:10:05 AM
Free love?

I wouldn't call it free. They pay the price of death!
Moohoohahaha!

pennywise37 · October 25, 2019, 11:07:50 PM

one of the worst movies i've ever seen in my life for me this was Painful to watch and a chore, the last 15 minutes really are the only thing that had anything happen to the entire film. WOW was this film bad this is a film that i wish Mike and the Bots could have Riffed had there been less Nudity in it than i think they easily could have.

it's got a great title for the film though but the film Painfully bad and this has a cult? WHY? there's a lot of films out there that have cults and some them i do get but not this one. Little Shop of Horrors is one that's gained one since it came out in (1960) that's well deserved but this one WTF Hollywood? apparently Roger Corman had something to do with Producing it i think?

The Burgomaster · October 29, 2019, 06:06:49 PM

My best friend saw it at the drive-in in the early 70s and told me about it. I always wanted to see it. Then, years later I scored a VHS copy. I don't have it anymore, but the movie is okay if you're into the 70s hippie scene.

pennywise37 · November 04, 2019, 05:57:22 PM

i love 70's horror and i don't mind movies with Hippie's with them you have Easy Rider which is a great film but that actually has things happen in it. this movie moves so slow and nothing happens than you get caught off guard and it's the last oh 15 minutes you think to yourself now it wants to resemble something happening? and if i recall it had a scene where one of the Villain's was dressed as let's say a cop cause i forget what they were dressed in and it fooled the lead character, it's one of those scenes that to Quote and old Episode of the Cinema snob going back to his episode of Mother's Day the (1980) film

it's a scene that's been in so many movies that i've seen my reflection less than that has been in films. or something along the lines of that anyways. i do remember thinking the ending was awful too i hated the ending. but for those who like this one like i said more power to you this is just what i think of it,

like i said movies don't have to have none stop action to be good Psycho would be a good example where no killing's happened until Janet Leigh is killed but things happened plot wise and it didn't slow things down either.

zombie no.one · November 04, 2019, 10:58:27 PM

just watched the trailer, which has awful picture quality, and this scene here....

http://youtu.be/damjPIoS8oA

looks like Shout Factory has *really* cleaned the picture up. I'm amazed at how 'new' some of these early 70s films can look when remastered...

the film looks pretty hammy and fun to me. I don't mind films where nothing happens, if the overall vibe is there

the VELVET VAMPIRE (1971)

claws