THE VELVET VAMPIRE

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Showings

Chauncey -Theater 1 Wed, Jan 19, 2022 10:00 PM
Series Info
Series:Late Shift at the Grindhouse
Reel Representation
Film Info
Rating:R
Runtime:80 minutes
Director:Stephanie Rothman (The Student Nurses)
Year Released:1971
Production Country:United States
Language:English
Website:facebook.com/ICgrindhouse
Trailer:youtu.be/xhSLJHYNyLo

Description

Wednesday gets weird when Late Shift hosts Ross Meyer, Joe Derderian and Aaron Holmgren dig up low-budget b-movies, horror and gore-fests, and camp classics for your viewing pleasure. Buy your ticket and take a ride in our Time Machine! Punch in and earn a bonus! $3 Pabst Blue Ribbon tallboys and $2 small popcorn! PLUS -- special custom trash trailer reel curated by Ross with cheap swag and prize giveaways!

Climax after climax of terror and desire.  She's waiting to love you... to death! 

“I’ve always wanted to make every kind of film I could, at least once.” - Stephanie Rothman, director

 

"Though made in America, the film incorporates a lot of the techniques we associate with artsy European horror movies-an emphasis on storytelling through color, slow psychedelic dissolves and that old standby: abundant nudity." - Lars Nilsen, Warped: Weird Wednesday and the Birth of The American Genre Film Archive

 

"There are some really well shot dream sequences in which the characters wind up on a bed in the middle of the desert that would not seem out of place in a Jodorowsky movie, and the site of a vampire vixen zipping around in a bright yellow dune buggy is certainly one you don’t see too often." - Ian Jane, RockShockPop.com

 

Directed by Roger Corman protegee Stephanie Rothman and laced with an addictive psych score, this endearing cult item remains best experienced on the big screen in all its gaudy, color-coded glory.

Dune buggies, rattlesnakes and hippies aren’t common staples of your average vampire movie, but then again, there’s never been anything like this outrageous desert paean to bloodsucking and partner-swapping. Michael Blodgett (Beyond the Valley of the Dolls) is caught between his vanilla girlfriend Sherry Miles (The Todd Killings) and smokin’ exhibitionist/art gallery devotee Celeste Yarnal, but soon it looks like he might be out of the picture once the two ladies develop eyes for each other.

Restoration courtesy of Shout! Factory and the American Genre Film Archive.