Embrace of the Vampire Review
Thursday July 7, 2005
We watched Embrace of the
Vampire last night. It was kind of strange and came with both R and unrated
versions. We watched the unrated one. There was a lot of erotic scenes without
showing any genitals. I liked that part of it but in some strange way the
whole movie was less erotic in tone, to me, than many without the sex scenes.
And somehow the vampire aspects lacked real (ok movie) tension. I am not entirely
sure why as it had most of the elements that should have created it. Perhaps
some of it was because when the characters were supposed to be bad they didn’t
seem all that bad to me. The character that Alyssa Milano played was being
pursued and seduced by a vampire. At one point she is being the temptress
and is kissing another woman. She bites her tongue I think and the woman runs
off as if something bad happened. The woman doesn’t say what did you
do that for, or I don’t like pain, or don’t do that, she just
puts her hand over her mouth and leaves. It just seemed unreal. Still I enjoyed
the scenes of Alyssa getting photographed and the seduction aspects of it
though she stops it well short of that.
Copyright © 2005 Kyril Oakwind