A
mysterious artist named Mary (Christina
Ferrare) escapes from Los Angeles and
travels to Mexico where she also meets up
with another young American ex-patriot
named Ben Ryder (David Young) while
trying to find shelter from a rainstrom.
They fall in love with one another but
what he doesn't realise about Mary is her
hunger and lust for blood and kills
people wherever she goes, then drinks
their blood.
However her father (John Carradine) is
also on the search for Mary and plans to
kill her to top it all off. He also
feasts on people's blood.
The investigators can't firgure out these
deadly moments as they find the corpses
drained out of the victims across the
country.
This is not a vamprie film
although it almost makes you think of
one. It really doesn't explain why Mary
and her father drinks blood which seems
odd and pointless too.
Apart from descent direction and a few
good performances this film bites the
dust and not at all scary either.
The acting is in average
but not terrible shape. Christina
Ferrare seems to breeze through fine
as a young and lusty Mary and her hunger
for blood. She comes across as charming,
vicious, terrified and emotional. She
seems to do all of this quite well.
David Young isn't too bad himself
playing her boyfriend as he seems good
with his tough attitude.
John Carradine presented himself
truly creepy dressed in black and seems
to know his stuff in his role since he
often played these types.
Supporting actress Helena Rojo really
came across well as a lustful lesbian
with her softlike attitude.
Christina
Ferrare dresses and undresses during
many moments when she is about to have a
sex or make out scene with her breasts
fully exposed
Supporting actress Helena Rojo
takes off her clothes before entering a
bathtub with her butt exposed.
There are many gruesome
bloody stabbings taking place especially
a shot on a neck with blood gushing out.
Juan López Moctezuma seems
to do fairly descent job with his work on
the film although the plot is slightly
rough.
He shows an impressive beginning on the
film with lead actress Christina
Ferrare finding shelter in a
thunderstorm and then starting her
dialogue with David Young even
if it looked too plain it makes you
wonder where it's going to go from there.
We have a nice flashback sequence between
Ferrare and supporting actor Roger
Cudney during this moment when they
have a dialogue moment about her painting
and then there's a good make out scene
with them which looks nice and relaxing
blending in perfectly with their dialogue
and then bam! The death scene begins.
Theres a great shot on Ferrare running
towards a small actor playing a fisherman
at a beach but I believe this actor was
uncredited.
There is a nice scene on him regardless
after drinking a cup of coffee as there's
a drug in it that he looked woozy and he
reacts well like he really was getting
drugged and then there's great shots on
Ferrare holding the fishing rod
staring at him to wait for him to pass
out.
She looked great going in a rage trying
to kill him with a bowie knife and he
sways his fishing rod at her being so out
of it.
We have a nice shot on both Ferrare
and Young making out and
undressing lying on a couch while John
Carradine is dressed in black with a
flashlight looking around and then going
in for the kill on small actor Jorge Humberto
Robles.
We see a terrific with Ferrare
acting emotionally sad and supporting
actress Helena Rojo tries to
comfort her and is touching her which
looked like a good lesbian moment.
We also see a nice and relaxing bathtub
scene by the two of them as the direction
looked very natural and you know the next
terrifying moment is going to happen.
Nice camera shots on small actress Susana
Kamini tripping out after she's in a
car with a maniac, falls out of the car
and then rolling down a hill.
Ferrare looked very good at being
restless in bed wanting blood and just
balls out when she wants to go out alone
trying to prevent anyone to follow her.
An excellent shot on a car driving
towards Ferrare and Young on a
corner of a road painting artwork and the
car crashing through the painting nearly
hitting them.
Later on we have a real effective camera
shot on Carradine pointing
evilly at Ferrare and she was
great at freaking out.
We spot a real strong and powerful
dialogue on Young against two
supporting actors played by Arthur
Hansel and Enrique Lucero as
two officers questioning him about the
deaths. They were terrific at yelling at
him and then being at times physical with
him too.
The most effective direction was with Ferrare
and Carradine when he confronts
her about what she will turn out to be in
the future.
Tom
Mahler composes the music to this
film as he shows some nice low keyoboard
playing for the dark moments and alot of
cheesy music that you would hear in the
killer octopus film Tentacles
too as that is not at all horror music.
Plus, he also showed some nice flute
playing during a flashback moment of the
first victim trying to have a lustful
romance.
Tom also sang the theme song during
the opening credits which sounded nice.
He was famous for singing back up vocals
for many 70's pop artits including The
Partridge Family's soundtrack
records.
Mary: If
I had a glass of wine I'd drink to that.
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