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The Velvet Vampire

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A couple becomes the target of a vampires' seductions.
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The Velvet Vampire

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Derek Owen Time Out 01/26/2006
It's hard to dislike a movie that strives so hard to offend the vampire fan base. Go to Full Review
Vincent Canby New York Times 05/09/2005
It is to be recommended only if you can see it at the New Amsterdam on 42d Street, where audiences loudly, freely and obscenely associate with the action on the screen. Go to Full Review
Dave Kehr Chicago Reader 01/01/2000
A highly intelligent, deftly poetic reimagining of the vampire myth, with the theme of fatal sexuality transferred to a female character. Go to Full Review
Marya E. Gates Cool People Have Feelings, Too. (Substack) 02/13/2024
Rothman’s film is exactly what you would want from a psychedelic sexploitation film set in the middle of the Southern California desert. Go to Full Review
Noah Berlatsky Splice Today 02/11/2023
The Velvet Vampire isn’t just by a female director; it’s about the possibilities of female creation, spectatorship, and fantasy in a genre and an industry that haven’t allowed much space for them. Go to Full Review
Sean Burns Crooked Marquee 10/07/2022
A titillating semiotic exercise, sending up gender roles and inverting the vampire mythos with results both provocative and ridiculous. Sometimes simultaneously. Go to Full Review
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Dallas H 08/24/2023 It is a cheesy production about a widow vampire living in the California desert who bides some of her time creeping on a newlywed couple. The acting from the couple is corny and a step up from being amateurish. I appreciated the movie for being campy. It is produced and distributed by Roger Corman's newly created New World Pictures company, an iconic stamp of indie distribution for horror movies for a few decades. Upon my first viewing, I neither hated nor loved the film. I am in neutral territory at the moment. A second viewing later might push me over the edge to either side. See more CodyZamboni 08/17/2023 Movie is silly soft core porn / tame horror film, set in the desert. Lots of unskilled actors trying their best to sell this mess. That said, the lead lady vampire is very attractive. See more 10/16/2020 Some commentators say that this a feminist spin on the vampire genre, but it struck me as mostly clumsily edited soft porn. See more 02/09/2014 Strange and Very 70's Flick with a Vampire Afterthought--Mostly nostalgic!! See more 01/17/2014 I honestly still don't know if I liked this fuckin' movie or not, even updating my ratings/watched films months after the fact. I enjoyed watching it and found it somewhat entertaining if only for the random nudity and meandering storyline, but Holy Moses, it's not a horror film by a long shot, and it's never even remotely scary, so what the hell do you make of it? Weird. Rental? See more 01/14/2012 A trippy, weird, and not terribly-good (or bad) movie about a strangely unattractive married couple (sorry Michael Blodgett & Sherry Miles) who fall prey to the desert dealings of Celeste Yarnell's Velvet Vampire...yeah I don't know what that means either. The film is chockablock with nonsensical dialog that left me scratching my head when I wasn't downright laughing. Fun, but no way am I gonna remember a single thing about this come next week. VF. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis A couple becomes the target of a vampires' seductions.
Director
Stephanie Rothman
Producer
Charles S. Swartz
Screenwriter
Maurice Jules, Charles S. Swartz, Stephanie Rothman
Production Co
New World Pictures
Rating
R
Genre
Horror
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Jan 25, 2017
Runtime
1h 20m