‘VAMPS’: A BLOODY MESS THAT IS A LITTLE BIT FUNNY
Featuring two popular stars, one from the 90s, another from an ABC TV show, Vamps is weird but also oddly funny.
Vamps (2012) Film Review
Best friends for a while now and living in New York, Goody (Alicia Silverstone) and Stacy (Krysten Ritter) do every together. They work the night shift, attend an AA meeting together and are roommates. Oh, yeah, and they’re vampires. Goody has lived this life longer than Stacy, but together the girls live to the fullest and live up their nightlife. Then things become complicated when Stacy falls for her classmate, Joey (Dan Stevens).
This upends more than one problem, including their rivalry with Cisserus (Sigourney Weaver) and the fact that Joey may have heritage that could be very bad for the girls.
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🧛🏻♀️‘VAMPS’: A BLOODY MESS THAT IS A LITTLE BIT FUNNY🧛🏻♀️ #KRYSTENRITTER AND #ALICIASILVERSTONE CO-STAR IN THIS DRAMA. #MOVIES #VAMPIRES Share on XI’m sort of grossed out by this film while also finding it funny. Part of this could be my general distaste for vampires, which have never been my thing. I just don’t buy into or really like the vampire culture. If you can get past the first fifteen or so minutes, there is some sense of “normalizing” as the girls do normal things like find love or visit friends who are in the hospital. It’s less about their, shall we say, habits and more about them living, seemingly, normal lives.
This is one I don’t have all the right words for. On the one hand, I just don’t care for it (because blood and vampires!), but on the other, it’s actually more of a poignant film than I remembered when I saw it a couple of years ago. There’s themes of friendship and the strength of that bond. Motherhood, and its value. Love and the ways you can make something work. The main characters also do actively resist the “norm” of vampireism and that’s admirable. But I don’t think that’s enough to recommend this.
Of course, the cast is great fun too. It’s nice to see Clueless’ actress Alicia Silverstone again, Krysten Ritter is always funny, and of course, best of all, we get to see Dan Stevens in a vampire movie. That alone is comical given the roles he is better known for. If you’re into the vampire genre and don’t mind comedy, Vamps may be the kind of funny you’re looking for.
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Content: there’s some “death” in the film. A woman feeds off human blood and this bothers characters in the film. Another character makes a sacrifice so others can live on. There’s a room full of dead people that someone drained of blood. One sequence has the girls drinking the blood of rats. It’s obvious the creatures they hold are fake, but it’s still just a little too gross. Another scene shows a man and woman drinking blood off each other’s bodies; a woman puts her tongue in a man’s nose because of blood. There’s implications of sex once we see characters roll around frantically removing clothing and later, lying in bed half naked. Another time a coffin “rocks” with the couple inside. There is at least one, maybe two f-words. Same sex and heterosexual couples dance suggestively in a scene at a club; there’s innuendo that the girls sleep around. The film is PG-13.
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