I went and saw Vampire Lovers last Thursday night at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. It was awesome.

Long story short, if you like campy vampire movies and boobs, then this movie is totally for you. It was definitely totally for me.

The movie stars Ingrid Pitt as the movie’s primary villain, a lonely vampire who seduces women into bed, then sucks them dry. There’s more to the story than that, but that’s all you really need to know.

It’s the typical start with a story, some other stuff happens, and then it ends back with the person who was telling the story in the beginning letting the rest of the characters in on the secret, coming full circle.

Hammer Films at their best. Lots of unintentional laughs yet classic horror storylines. Would see again.

Back before Twilight and Sookie Stackhouse essentially ruined vampires’ image, there were classic versions of Dracula and the vampires. Somehow, those movies morphed into the versions of vampire movies we have today, and I don’t know where things went wrong.

Regardless of how you feel, we’re going old school with vampires.

The Brooklyn Academy of Music is gearing up for their vampire fest, starting this week. If you live in Brooklyn/NYC, I suggest checking this out. We’ll be there for some of these I am sure.

From the site, the event is described as:

Sink your teeth into 33 films featuring cinema’s most dangerous—and dangerously alluring—figure. From Lugosi to the lesbian undead, Murnau to Maddin, camp-horror staple to postmodern, society-as-sickness metaphor, the vampire’s reign over popular imagination continues to seduce filmmakers over to the dark side.

Looking through the lineup so far,  I’m happy to report I have only seen 2 of the movies. The Vampire Lovers is definitely at the top of my list.