Vamp *** (1986, Chris Makepeace, Sandy Baron, Robert Rusler, Dedee Pfeiffer, Gedde Watanabe, Grace Jones, Billy Drago) – Classic Movie Review 6520

Writer-director Richard Wenk’s 1986 contemporary vampire tale adds lashings of gory humour to a fair quota of chills.

Chris Makepeace and Robert Rusler star as college kids who go to a bar and hire a stripper for their fraternity party. But they find that Katrina (played by the monumental Grace Jones) is a bloodthirsty vampire with a special cocktail in mind.

Wenk’s tale provides shocks and smiles at the same time, in a stylish-looking, Eighties pop-video promo influenced package.

It was an 18 certificate in the UK and had an R rated restricted rating in the US for gory violence.

The production companies are Amaretto Films, Balcor Film Investors and Planet Productions, it was released by New World, shot in Metrocolor by Elliot Davis, produced by Donald P Borchers, scored by Jonathan Elias and designed by Alan Roderick-Jones. The story is by Richard Wenk and Donald P Borchers.

It was filmed at Ren-Mar Studios, Hollywood.

Also in the cast are Sandy Baron, Dedee Pfeiffer, Gedde Watanabe and Billy Drago.

Chris Makepeace was born on 22 April 1964 in Montréal and is known for Meatballs (1979), My Bodyguard (1980) and Vamp (1986).

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