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Vamp is a 1986 American black comedy horror film directed by Richard Wenk, co-written by Wenk and Donald P. Borchers, and starring Chris Makepeace, Sandy Baron, Robert Rusler, Dedee Pfeiffer, Gedde Watanabe, and Grace Jones.
Vamp is a horror-comedy that stars Grace Jones as an exotic dancing bloodsucker who may or may not be ancient Egyptian royalty. When three college boys stumble upon her club in the dead of night seeking to take a stripper back to campus, they end up getting a whole lot more than they bargained for.
“Vamp” isn’t that movie. It’s sort of a vampire version of “ After Hours ,” Martin Scorsese’s great 1985 film about a long night in the big city when everything went wrong. The story this time: To escape the rigors of a fraternity initiation, a couple of pledges offer to go into the big city and hire a stripper to appear at the ...
Vamp: Directed by Richard Wenk. With Chris Makepeace, Sandy Baron, Robert Rusler, Dedee Pfeiffer. Two fraternity pledges travel to a sleazy bar in search of a stripper for their college friends, unaware it is occupied by vampires.
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- Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
- Richard Wenk
- 1986-07-18
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Two college students, Keith and AJ, want to hire a stripper to buy their way into a campus fraternity. They borrow a Cadillac from lonely rich student Duncan, who insists on coming with them to scope out strip clubs in a nearby city. The three boys find themselves at a club in a shady part of town, and after being impressed by a surreally artistic ...
Chris Makepeace as KeithRobert Rusler as AJGrace Jones as KatrinaDedee Pfeiffer as Allison/AmarettoVampwas released theatrically in the United States on July 18, 1986 and grossed $4,941,117 at the box office. Arrow Video released Vampon Blu-ray/DVD in the US on October 4, 2016 and the UK Blu-ray/DVD release on October 3, 2016. This version of the film features a high definition digital transfer along with special features.
Reviews were mixed to negative. Roger Ebert gave the film 2 stars out of 4, writing that there were "some funny lines, and the relationship between the human kid and his best pal the vampire is handled with a lot of original twists. But the movie finally descends, as so many films do these days, to one of those assembly-line endings made up of figh...
Many viewers argue that Vamp heavily influenced Robert Rodriguez's From Dusk till Dawn (1996); from the setting of a strip club, to the sexy dance/performance put on by the lead female characters in each respective film. Vamp tells the story of two fraternity pledges looking to find a stripper at the "After Dark" club, which so happens to be home t...
According to the DVD audio commentary, filming began on January 28, 1986, the day of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.The external filming locations around Los Angeles included West 6th Street, 7th & Spring and by the Million Dollar Theatre located at 307 South Broadway.Grace Jones does not speak a single word in the film. According to Jones, this was her own idea, opting instead to play the role with silent film techniques inspired by Max Schreck in Nosferatu.The bizarre human-like chair Grace Jones performs her striptease on was made from a body cast of her then-boyfriend Dolph Lundgren. The paint on the human-like chair was made by late grafitti artis...R 1 hr 33 min Jul 18th, 1986 Horror, Comedy. Two fraternity pledges go to a sleazy bar in search of a stripper for their college friends, unaware it is occupied by vampires. Starring Grace...
Vamp is a 1986 horror-comedy film directed by Richard Wenk. The story centers on two college students, Keith and AJ, who enter a seedy nightclub seeking a stripper for a fraternity event, only to discover that the club is run by vampires.
