Predrag
I place this film along side "Showgirls" as a truly indispensable guilty pleasure, this film is an absolute riot, you just can't keep a straight face. If you're looking for a plot, good acting, thrilling action sequences, characters that you can care about, a good script, or a memorable movie experience, then you're looking at the wrong movie. However, if you're looking for a soft-core porn movie starring Alyssa Milano's bare breasts, you're looking at the right movie.Alyssa Milano gets naked. You see her nipples with amazing frequency. She lets guys touch her in dream sequences. She lets a female photographer touch her, remove most of her clothing, and then kiss her. But beware, Lesbian Sex Scene seekers - Alyssa does not go further than kissing. Yes, that's right - she loses her nerve and runs out of the room. Taking the time to get dressed again, unfortunately. So, if you're a fan of Alyssa Milano's breasts, then by all means rent this movie! Overall rating: 6 out of 10.
a_baron
Vampires may be the living dead, but if you can sit through this one without taking at least three or four breaks you're not living dead, you're brain dead. The theme is far from new: age old vampire seeks his reincarnated virgin. How he becomes a vampire in the first place is silly, then we jump forward a couple of hundred years or so, and we are on a college campus where leading man and bad guy Martin Kemp is pursuing the virginal Alyssa Milano. Kemp is still best known for being one quarter of new romantics Spandau Ballet. He is also not a bad actor, but even Tom Hanks, Marlon Brando, Laurence Olivier and Al Pacino melded together couldn't pull this one off. Rubbish plot and script aside, this is a film that starts off with some pretence to Gothic horror, then decides it wants to become lesbian porn, then simply porn, and finally degenerates into farce as the campus virgin smokes her first cigarette, when suddenly she is not so sweet and pure. There is nothing wrong with using dream or nightmare sequences in a film, but there are ways to indicate this. If a character who has been murdered appears in a later scene, is this person now a vampire, or did the dastardly deed take place only in the damsel's head? That is assuming she was even in that scene. Confused? Who wouldn't be!This has been called a B Movie; in truth there are not enough letters in even the Tamil alphabet to rate this garbage, and it is not so much the embrace of the vampire as his kiss of death.
slayrrr666
"Embrace of the Vampire" is an enjoyable erotic vampire entry, but a dull horror film.**SPOILERS**About to fall into Eternal Sleep, a lonely Vampire, (Martin Kemp) finds that young college student Charlotte Wells, (Alyssa Milano) is the perfect reincarnation of his lost-love, and vows to win her over. Knowing of her love for fellow student Chris, (Harold Pruitt) he concocts a plan to break them up and allow her to join her by his side. As she begins to feel the effects of his power, controlling her thoughts and making her experience weird dreams and visions, her friends Nicole, (Rachel True) and Eliza, (Jordan Ladd) begin to wonder if it has anything to do with her upbringing more than anything else and try to get her to loosen up. As the time for his plans get closer to realization, he realizes what's been going on all along and races to save her from his deadly grip.The Good News: There wasn't a whole lot to really enjoy with this one. One of the better aspects to this one, though, is the film's abundant sexuality, and the ease of which it plays around with those elements. Being a mainstream release, it doesn't really seem likely to be able to get as much of that as it shows in here, but it's all the more welcome because of being included. The fact that the opening of the movie, which features a non-nude-but-still-erotic sequence only to turn into a foursome orgy with completely nude participants for lengthy scene. It's quite fun to watch, and just about most later scenes featuring this plus are that way as well. That the lead manages to get all of it makes it even better, managing to make due with a fully-exposed undressing scene, several instances where the dress she's wearing at the time blows open and several sex scenes mixed in amongst it all. The best scene, though, is the innocent photo-shoot that soon turns into a pseudo-lesbian encounter that features a lot of it going on, and it's lengthy and quite enjoyable. This is probably the main reason to see this, as these scenes are among one of the main interesting factors among the film. The only other thing it manages to do somewhat right is the continual theme of making the vampire encounters seem like dreams rather than actual visitations, and at times it's hard to tell the difference. There's certainly some, especially the trippy and visually-impressive drug-trip that turns into a vampire-feasting session, but it's still not entirely clear, and that's what makes it so much fun. Some of the other encounters, namely the meeting at the party and a lively part in a schoolroom lecture, are a bit more noteworthy for actually doing something in the course of the film, but it's still not enough to save it beyond all the flesh exposed.The Bad News: There was a lot of flaws to this one. Of the more damaging ones, none are much bigger than the film's incredible dullness. This one doesn't really have much in the way of action, it really doesn't have much energy during it's run and it's pretty hard to stay interested in what's going on. Much of this has to deal with the other factors working against the film, but it's still not all them and still has something to deal with this. One of the other problems that also lends into this one is the fact that there's not a whole lot of fear to be generated from it's vampire lead. The stereotypical pale-faced, whining, romantically-inclined preening vampire, he barely has anything to do with any type of horror actions and comes off as weak, nonthreatening and not really worthwhile. The stereotype allows for more scenes to be of him running around trying to let his plan come to fruition than anything that could be done to make him scary. One huge blunder is, during the opening narration, he voices his plans and pretty much takes the suspense out of what he's trying to do right from the first frame of the film, which is a colossal mistake and one it doesn't really get over. That the plan basically involves him turning a woman into a nympho for his bride, there's not a whole lot of fear than can be derived from the situation, and instead it uses that for the movie's main plus, but it's still something that doesn't generate a lot of horror and makes the film quite hard to fathom as a horror movie. The last big one is the film's criminal lack of blood, or gore, as what little squirts that are seen in here are barely worth having in for what little they provide. Seeing the teeth turn red, only because it's darker than what's around them, and a small smear against a door are all that's in here, making this one quite dry, and along with the dullness and weak vampire lead, constitute this one's flaws.The Final Verdict: With a lot of it's pluses relegated to it's sexuality and not much else, it's really hard to find much who'll like this one. The main one's who'll like it will undoubtedly be those who prefer these more romantic vampire fare or looking for a quick sleaze fix, otherwise heed with extreme caution.Rated R: Full Nudity, several sex scenes, Language and Mild Violence
