Vampire Hookers
Vampire Hookers
R | 01 July 1978 (USA)
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A sinister vampire sends out a horde of undead beauties to bring back victims for his dinner.

Reviews
InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.
Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.
Frances Chung Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
Marva-nova Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.
Scott LeBrun If you're looking for a cheerfully inane, lowbrow "late show" type of movie that just has fun with itself, look no further than Cirio H. Santiagos' "Vampire Hookers", an endearingly silly enterprise with gorgeous gals, a fair bit of atmosphere, and absolutely no shortage of fart gags.John Carradine stars as Richmond Reed, suave blood sucking pimp with a trio of amazingly luscious ladies of the night - Cherish (Karen Stride), Suzy (Lenka Novak), and Marcy (Katie Dolan). They set their sights on a bumbling pair of horny Navy sailors, Tom (Bruce Fairbairn, 'The Rookies'), and Terry (Trey Wilson, "Raising Arizona") who've been out and about looking for a good time. Both Tom and Terry are cowards, but Tom can't resist the ladies for too long.Even at 80 minutes, one can feel the padding on this thing, but it's good for laughs and cheap thrills all the way. Ever lovable Vic Diaz has one of the silliest parts of his career as the servant to Reed and his girls, a man who desperately wants to be a vampire but who has an uncontrollable flatulence problem that makes lying in a coffin difficult. Fairbairn and Wilson are a reasonably engaging comedy pair, with Wilson particularly funny as a guy who feels the need to tell a certain story over and over. Stride, Novak, and Dolan are oh so delectable and help to keep the movie compulsively watchable, while the always reliable Carradine is clearly having a whale of a time as the dapper villain who just loves to quote poetry, and who informs us that while Shakespeare was a vampire, Walt Whitman was not. The music by Jaime Mendoza-Nava is enjoyable, as are the various sets. Best of all, there's a folksy title theme song playing over the end credits (as the main actors get a curtain call) that is simply awesome. You've just gotta hear it.All in all, this is an agreeable midnight movie for genre fans looking for some undemanding fun.Seven out of 10.
Woodyanders Amiable horny sailors Tom Buckley (likable Bruce Fairbairn) and Terry Wayne (the equally engaging Trey Wilson of "Raising Arizona" fame) are looking for some female action while on shore leave in the Philippines. The duo run afoul of droll vampire count Richmond Reed (the ubiquitous John Carradine hamming it up with his usual eye-rolling aplomb) and his three gorgeous sex-starved bloodsucking nymphets Cherish (luscious brunette Karen Stride), Suzy (comely blonde Lenka Novak), and Marcy (deliciously voluptuous knockout Katie Dolan). Veteran exploitation feature director Cirio H. Santiago and screenwriter Howard R. Cohen offer a constant barrage of amusingly dumb jokes about such topics as eating duck, transvestites, the inevitable barroom brawl, and Bloody Mary drinks (groan!). This flick reaches its gloriously ghastly peak during a marvelously protracted ten minute orgy sequence set to crudely thumping and monotonous disco music that seems to go on forever. The cast have a field day with their broad parts: Fairbairn and Wilson make for affable leads, Carradine recites poetic dialogue with infectiously hearty gusto, and legendary Filipino B-movie favorite Vic Diaz is a gas (literally!) as Pavo, a bumbling idiotic servant who desperately wants to be a vampire and suffers from severe flatulence (he even backfires in his coffin!). Better still, Stride, Novak and Dolan are all smoking hot babes who aren't the least bit bashful about baring their beautiful bodies. Both the competent cinematography by Johnny Araojo and Ricardo Remias and Jamie Mendoza-Nava's generic ooga booga score are suitably cheesy. The goofy ending credits theme song is absolutely priceless. Sure, this picture is total schlock, but it's way too good-natured in its campy stupidity to either resist or dislike. A hilariously dippy hoot and a half.
clavallie This is an absolutely horrible movie (though still better than both Queerwolf and On Deadly Ground (best use of Michael Caine's hair to sop up oil spills)). However, it is almost worth owning if you choose to just fast forward to the credits for the theme song. Any vampire movie with the line "Vampire hookers... they'll suck more than your blood" in it is worth putting next to your copy of A Polish Vampire In Burbank on your schlock shelf. There isn't much more to say about this movie except that it is very difficult to fill out ten lines of commentary about it that aren't merely "Ow... that hurt my brain" repeated over and over and over. Ow... that hurt my brain.
Paul Andrews Vampire Hookers starts with a Vampire named Richmond Reed (John Carradine) talking incoherent nonsense to the camera, don't worry about it though as it happens a lot. Two U.S. Navy sailors & best buddies named Tom Buckley (Bruce Fairbairn) & Terry Wayne (Trey Wilson) are on shore leave in an exotic oriental port & decide to have a night on the town, lots of beer & plenty of women. Unfortunately the closest they come to scoring is a transsexual, then they meet up with another sailor named Eddie Taylor (Lex Winter) & his guide, a local taxi driver named Julio (Leo Martinez) who takes them to the San Francisco Bar where Julio introduces Eddie to a woman he knows called Cherish (Karen Stride). Eddie & Cherish then hop in Julio's taxi & Julio takes them to a cemetery where Cherish lives. Cherish takes Eddie down into a crypt where she introduces her two friends Suzy (Lenka Novak) & Marcy (Katie Dolan) plus head Vampire Reed who never changes his clothes, they all feast on his blood. When Eddie fails to return to base Tom & Terry become worried so they decide to look for him, they manage to find Cherish & see her get into a taxi with another man & they decide to follow her. They discover the truth but none of the authorities will believe them, it's down to Tom & Terry to put an end to the Vampire hookers bloodsucking ways...This Philippine American co-production was directed by the prolific Cirio H. Santiago & Vampire Hookers was one of three films made by Santiago in '78, the other's being Hell Hole (1978) & Death Force (1978), which probably says a lot about the time & effort he puts into his films. The script by Howard R. Cohen is best described as an adult horror comedy, while it never quite satisfies in any department it has a certain something about. It's fairly entertaining to watch on a silly level, it moves along at a nice pace & isn't dull or boring & at less than 80 minutes long at least it's short. The story is virtually none existent, the character's are basic & John Carradine looks like a knob in that white suit & cowboy hat. The comedy comes mainly in the form of silly one-liners & a bit of slapstick, the funniest thing about Vampire Hookers has to be the dumb farting servant Pavo (Vic Diaz), there is a funny bit where he gets into a coffin & starts to fart so he has to breathe through a plastic tube! They may be juvenile & lowbrow but a joke about a fart can just raise a smile no matter what. The adult elements come in the form of the three Vampire Hookers & a 10 minute orgy scene which felt like it went on forever, it's not that graphic & I actually found it got pretty boring to watch. Horror wise we have John Carradine looking like he is about to fall over & die at any moment wearing the most hideous white suit, red bow-tie & cowboy hat bizarrely spouting lines of Shakespeare whom he claims was a Vampire. Well, that's as scary as Vampire Hookers gets anyway. Basically if you want your horror quite light hearted, not too taxing & fairly fun then Vampire Hookers might be worth a punt.Director Santiago does an OK job although Vampire Hookers is basic, the sets are alright although I can't remember the last time I saw a stone tomb with an electric lid & revolving steps! Are the filmmakers seriously trying to sell those styrofoam bricks as real? They are the most fake looking bricks I've ever seen as bricks don't usually bounce. Vampire Hookers isn't really scary but it does have that 70's horror film atmosphere to it. Forget about any blood or gore as there isn't any apart from John boy shooting a rat with a crossbow, maybe a real one but the shot was very quick so I couldn't be sure.The budget for this thing must have been low to say the least, the entire film looks like it was dubbed, even Carradine. Vampire Hookers looks OK & for the most part it's competent, fake bouncing bricks apart. The end credits feature the truly terrible 'Vampire Hookers, Blood is not all they Suck' theme song, don't forget to check it out! If you make it that far. The acting isn't up to much, by this stage of his career Carradine would appear in just about anything & he is far too old & he doesn't impress. The Vampire hookers themselves are alright to look at but their far from the best looking girls I've ever seen.Vampire Hookers has a great title, how could anyone not be interested in a film called Vampire Hookers? Unfortunately as is so often the case the film itself fails to live up to expectations, it has little in the way of sex or nudity, has little in the way of blood, gore or horror & the funniest thing about it are the fart gags. Just about worth a watch but I doubt it will knock anyone's socks off.