Directed by: Daniel Taplitz Written by: Daniel Taplitz & Anne Beatz Starring: Ben Cross .... Vlad Maryam D'Abo .... Angelique Keith Szarabajka .... Dr. David Zuckerman Camille Saviola .... Rosa Mercedes Jesse Corti .... Jose Glenn Shadix Oliver Clark .... Bill Release Date: Made for Cable: February 21, 1990 Rating:

A vampiress named Angelique (Maryam D'Abo) awakens from her coffin after being dug up from grave robbers after 100 years and finds herself in the modern day Mexico City.
She has a hard time adjusting at first but while adjusting to the new lifestyle in the city she falls in love with a doctor who helped her in the hospital after fainting named David Zuckerman (Keith Szarabajka) as he finds her not all there after the stories she tells him.
She runs into another problem as her ex-lover vampire named Vlad (Ben Cross) appears from the past and is convinced to have her for eternity as his bride even if it means destroying her new boyfriend and her maid that lives with her named Rosa Mercedes (Camille Saviola) as he hires two mobster vampires to help him out.

It was a hard film to decide if this was a plain comedy or a comedy-horror but comedy-horror suits it well enough with some of the dark performances.
It's good to have dark comedy to make up for the terror involved with this film too.
This one was almost like a take on those Italian vampire films with a good sense of humor too.
If you enjoyed Innocent Blood then you might like this one too.

The acting is very well performed as Maryam D'Abo plays well as a vampiress trying to live in today's lifestyle. She has wit and can be very serious too.
Ben Cross is terrific as an evil vampire trying to get his vampiress back and has real aggression and coldness to his voice.
Keith Szarabajka has a nice playboy type appeal to him as the good looking and romantic doctor.
Camille Saviola is perfect with her comedic role as the maid to D'Abo's character bringing her character to life.

A vampire mobster explodes after a suntanning light is activated
Another vampires face is burned by a suntanning light
A stake is driven through Vlad's heart but it's really not bloody at all.

Daniel Taplitz directs this piece wonderfully as he brings alot of wit to the film as well as the seriousness too.
He has a great close up shot on Maryam D'Abo after she rises from her coffin with her fangs being revealed after awakening and dug up from her grave.
She shows nice frightened expressions while walking in the street trying to understand the present day. She's expecially funny while encountering a bug and freaks out. She also knows how to faint making it look good too.
He shows a great inmpression between D'Abo and Camille Saviola when they both have a discussion for the first time working together in a new apartment and D'Abo telling Saviola's character about her lifestyle as it seems unnormal.
We see a perfect setting with a dialogue sequence between D'Abo and Keith Szarabajka in a boat together trying to settle for a romance. We have a funny scene with them when D'Abo tells him about not being buried too deep into the ground and him trying to understand what the hell she's talking about.
There's a very powerful and strong dialogue between D'Abo and Ben Cross with their dispute towards one another and Cross shows great anger and aggrssion to all this when he wants her back as his bride.
A camera pans on Szarabajka walking down a sidewalk in the mist as if someone is stalking him which looks fairly dark.
We see a nice shot on D'Abo when she exposes her fangs ready to attack her maid played by Saviola and she lets out a nice scream. This was of course a dream sequence but it was effective regardless.
Another dark setting takes place after Szarabajka's character encounter's the head vampire Vlad played by Cross of course.
Szarabajka has believeable hyperactive energy the next day after taking sample's of Vlad's blood in his labratory.
A scene I thought was too corny was the dialogue between Szarabajka and Jesse Corti when they enter Vlad's castle as it looks way too comedic which boggles your mind wondering if this is just a straight comedy.
However, it makes up the comedy after Szarabajka and Cross have a vampire battle in the castle.
There's also nice locations of the city of Mexico that is shot in this film too.

Dana Kaproff plays some nice sexy saxophone music in the film as well as some icy keyboard playing which gives the film a nice touch.
A song that was overly played in the miovie was the golden oldie "I Put a Spell on You"

Vlad (After a stake is driven through his heart): Angelique.... You've broken my heart.

U.S.A.	VHS
Canada	VHS