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SCREAM QUEEN OF THE MONTH-AUGUST 2012
Why Vampirella?
Vampirella is a perfect representation of two mediums that I love: comic book art and horror.
What can you tell us about her?
For starters, she was created by Forrest J. Ackerman and Trina Robbins and made her first appearance in Vampirella #1 in September, 1969. For the first 8 issues she was more of a horror hostess; then writer-editor Archie Goodwin developed her into a leading character of horror-drama.
What’s her story? Who is she? Where did she come from?
Vampirella is from the planet Drakulon and is a member of the race known as the Vampiri. Her race lived off of blood and the rivers of the planet flowed with it. But when the twin suns of the planet began to cause a severe drought, something had to be done. A spaceship from Earth lands on the planet and Vampirella is sent to investigate. When she is attacked she retaliates and discovers that the astronauts have blood in their veins. She pilots their ship back to earth where she becomes a ‘good’ vampire who fights to rid Earth of the evil vampires that inhabit it.
Does she have any special powers?
Yes. She can transform herself into a bat at will; she has supernatural physical strength, sprouts wings when she has to fly and of course drinks blood. In addition, she is also incredibly beautiful and is capable of surviving bad movies made about her.
How will you represent her as Scream Queen of the Month?
For years, Vampirella has been depicted by some of the greatest artists working in comics and fantasy art. There are hundreds, perhaps thousands of pieces of art that capture the beauty of Vampirella; but for this I’ve narrowed it to eleven. They are all personal favorites of mine.
Are you afraid that people will be unhappy that you chose a comic book character as Scream Queen of the Month?
There may be some people who are unhappy; but then again who knows? I just hope that people are appreciative that I want to try something different.
So without further ado, I present to you the Scream Queen of the Month for August, 2012:
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VAMPIRELLA
VAMPIRELLA-United States-1996
Talisa Soto as Vampirella
Roger Daltrey as Vlad/Jamie Blood
Brian Bloom as Demos
Directed by Jim Wynorski
Written by Gary Gerani
Based on the comic book created by Forrest J. Ackerman
Who in the hell was responsible for this piece of crap? I love the comic book character Vampirella. I mean face it, for a red-blooded American male there are a lot of reasons to love her. She’s tough, she’s sexy, she’s beautiful and she rocks a costume that easily borders on the incredibly ridiculous. That in itself is the reason why I hate this movie so intensely; it takes all the things I love about the character and makes a mockery of them.
Hailing from the planet Drakulon, Vampirella chases the villainous Vlad across the galaxy to Earth to avenge the murder of her stepfather. She finds Vlad posing as rock musician Jamie Blood. Siding with Adam Van Helsing, she attempts to put a stop to Vlad’s reign of terror. That’s the plot and within the first two minutes of the film you know it’s going to be one big disaster. The acting is so bad it makes Keanu Reeves and Megan Fox look like Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep. The sets look like they’re borrowed from the local high school drama club. The costume, oh man, don’t get me started on the costume. Observe the image below:
Vampirella. Art by Jose Gonzalez.
Now, gaze upon this travesty:
Talisa Soto as VINO (Vampirella in Name Only)
See what I mean?
Then there’s the villain, Vlad. Can someone please explain to me why they felt that they had to get Roger Daltrey of The Who for the role? Was Ray Davies of The Kinks unavailable? Did they even try to get anyone with any credibility whatsoever for the part? At least they got someone hot for the title character of Vampirella when they hired Talisa Soto. In fact, that’s probably the only thing they got right with this movie.
By the way, wasn’t one of the vampires carrying an Oozinator? That’s an inside joke. Just ask Derek from Its Latin for Cookies.
Oh, and one more thing; if you’re going to put vampire fangs on your actors, make sure the damn things fit properly.
TRIVIA
The character “Forry Ackerman” is a tribute to the film’s associate producer, Forrest J. Ackerman, who also was the Editor of “Famous Monsters of Filmland” magazine (and also coined the title characters nickname – “Vampi“).
The old man briefly shown dancing while the band is playing is the real Forry Ackerman.
The space sequence of Vlad and his cohorts leaving Drakulon is footage from Not of This Earth, run in reverse. Both films were directed by Jim Wynorski.
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