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Gypsy Vampire
USA 2005
produced by
Conrad Brooks
directed by Conrad Brooks
starring Bruce Lindsay, John Durham, Donna Carter, Marvin Kennedy, Joe Tilton, Conrad Brooks, Sandy Rose, Kathi Graham, Brian Wilson, Johnny Sullivaqn, Mark Shivar, Carol Baker, Janette Grant, Andy Bakener, Mark Byrne, Mike Lambert, Naomi Van Meter, Valerie Saunders, Ed Hopf, J.C.Durham, Leroy Thompson, Gail Maureen Hansen, Davida Gypsy Breier, Wayne Coleman, Bill Crandall, Diane Dorris, Karl Hopf, Robin Lambert, Willam Patrick Tandy, Robin Creasen, Karen Shantz, Fry Wild Bill, Cindy Wilson
written by Conrad Brooks
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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Count Lugo (Bruce Lindsay), the gypsy vampire, wants the love of
his life, who has already decayed to a mere skeleton, revived, and to this
end he has hired Doctor Cabasa (John Durham), whose knowledge in medicine
goes far beyond that of most other surgeons, and who has found a way to
insert the skeleton into another corpse and bring that corpse back to life
via a female heart - the heart of prostitute Donna (Donna Carter), as it
later turns out. Thing is, even Doctor Cabasa is not ruthless enough to
go through with that experiment, so he helps Donna and two clumsy
documentary filmmakers (Marvin Kennedy, Joe Tilton), who somehow got mixed
up with the whole thing, escape, and gives Count Lugo a glass of blood to
drink - the blood of Lugo's own sister Vera (Sandy Rose), whom the doctor
killed during the escape, with some garlic added for special flavour. And
since vampire's just must not drink the blood of their own relatives
(least of all with garlic in it), Count Lugo dissolves to dust on the
spot. Director Conrad Brooks has a supporting role as retired cemetary
worker telling tall tales. It is nice to see that a man of
Conrad Brooks' age (he was 74 when he did this one) still goes on making
movies the Ed Wood way - meaning vastly underbudgeted, slightly silly and
chock-full of genre mainstays - undeterred ... without of course taking
his films all that seriously. And let's face it, on one hand, Gypsy
Vampire is a pretty bad film, it was obviously made on a shoestring,
features actors that are mostly not up to their job, and some of the plot
elements are so outrageous they're almost out of this world. But add a
hint of humour to it (without destroying the story's integrity) and some
basic directorial skills, and somehow the film comes to life. That said,
Gypsy Vampire is still far from being a perfect movie, in fact it's hardly
above amateur-level, but it's fun nonetheless, a film to laugh at ...
until you're realizing you're actually laughing with it.
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