We'll soon be able to have a competition to decide which classic horror genre has become the most homogenised and predictable in recent years, the zombie movie for its one-note plot (small group of disparate survivors figt of hoards of shambling undead) or the vampire movie for its spectacularly dull appeal-to-teenies characters. Next up for the latter is Life Blood (just as you'll find the work 'Dead' in the title of half the zombie movies out there, 'Blood' is almost a pre-requisite for vampire flicks), a genre piece with lead players who have drifting into acting from singing and a reputation for buggering up an interesting idea. But you never know...
It's New Year's Eve, 1969, and lesbian lovers Brooke and Rhea are celebrating the occasion at a swinging party in LA. Unfortunately, the evening's festivities take a terrible turn when Brooke stumbles into the bathroom and interrupts Hollywood A-lister Warren James attempting to rape a young fan and promptly stabs him to death with one of the girl's hair sticks. Escaping to the desert in their car, Brooke and Rhea encounter God herself, who offers to turn the pair into immortal, vampiric angels of death, destined to wander the earth destroying evil wherever they find it.
Starring girl group stars-turned-actresses Sophie Monk (The Hills Run Red; Date Movie) – a former member of best-selling Australian Popstars group, Bardot – and Anya Lahiri (Daylight Robbery) – formerly of UK 1999 Eurovision hopefuls, Precious – and co-starring Scout Taylor-Compton (The Runaways; that Halloween remake and its sequel), Patrick Renna (Dark Ride; The Sandlot), Electra Avellan (Machete; Grindhouse), supermodel-actress Angela Lindvall (Kiss Kiss Bang Bang) and cult star and Jonathan Demme/Russ Meyer movie regular Charles Napier (The Silence Of The Lambs; Philadelphia; Supervixens), the film is the latest feature from writer-director Ron Carlson (Midgets Vs. Mascots; Tom Cool).
Life Blood (cert. 18, tbc) will be released on DVD (£12.99) by Chelsea Films on 11th October 2010. Nothing in the way of extras has been promised. |