Rent Vamp (1986)
3.1 of 5 from 58 ratings
1h 30min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
- At school, getting into the right fraternity can be a matter of life or death. Keith (Chris Makepeace) and AJ (Robert Rusler) need to hire a stripper to entertain the brothers or their college days are over. In a shady after hours joint they find an adult entertainer like no other when they step into the world of sharp-fanged Katrina (Grace Jones). Have these two freshmen bitten off more than they can chew? Stuck on the wrong side of town, on a dark night and surrounded by a plague of alien blood suckers...The answer is definitely yes!
- Actors:
- Chris Makepeace, Sandy Baron, Robert Rusler, Dedee Pfeiffer, Gedde Watanabe, Grace Jones, Billy Drago, Brad Logan, Lisa Lyon, Jim Boyle, Larry Spinak, Eric Welch, Stuart Rogers, Gary Swailes, Ray Ballard, Paunita Nichols, Trudel Williams, Marlon McGann, Thomas Bellin, Bryan Michael McGuire
- Directors:
- Richard Wenk
- Producers:
- Donald P. Borchers
- Writers:
- Donald P. Borchers, Richard Wenk
- Studio:
- Arrow Films
- Genres:
- Comedy, Horror
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 21/02/2011
- Run Time:
- 94 minutes
- Languages:
- English Dolby Digital 1.0
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.85:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- One of those Nights: The Making of Vamp - a brand new documentary featuring interviews with director Richard Wenk, director of photography Elliot Davis, stars Robert Rusler, Dedee Pfeiffer, Gedde Watanabe
- Behind-the-scenes rehearsals
- Blooper Reel
- Image gallery
- Dracula Bites the Big Apple (1979) - Richard Wenk's celebrated short film
- Trailers
- TV Spots
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Reviews (1) of Vamp
Neon, Fangs and False Teeth - Vamp review by griggs
Not every cult film earns that label through brilliance; some stumble into it by sheer oddity. Vamp is one of those. On the surface, it’s about a pair of dreadful frat boys who head into the city to hire a stripper. That premise alone sounds loathsome, but what follows is more curiosity than catastrophe.
The film borrows shamelessly from other daft exploitation pictures: neon-soaked sets, bargain-bin dialogue, and actors directed with all the finesse of “point and shoot.” Grace Jones appears in full performance-artist mode, more art installation than actress, and it’s enough to give the film its cult sheen. The rest of the cast is instantly forgettable, with one exception: Sandy Baron as Vic, the cockroach-crunching nightclub owner who somehow makes sleaze watchable.
Vamp isn’t good, but it is memorable for its sheer strangeness — proof that sometimes a bad film, in the right light, takes on a life of its own.
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