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Jessica (Amanda Renee) is fed up with her life: Her white trash mother
Lucy (Bettina Skye) has pretty much left her in charge of her baby
brother, is drunk most of the time, and is the whore of the local biker
club, she's the most unpopular girls at school, and she has no friends.
But enter Trish (Destyne Marshai), April (Penny Praline) and Stacy (Gigi
Gustin), who might have teased her a bit when first they first met, but
they help her when she has a minor accident, and soon help her have her
revenge on the girls who bully her at school (Chrissy Cavallo, Dana
Ackerman, Leia Nazario). Only their style of revenge exceeds what Jessica
had in mind by far, as the three girls are vampires and just feed on the
bullies' blood. But the three genuinely like Jessica, so they, with her
permission, turn her into one of them. And they soon move in with Jessica
as well, as they can feed on the guys Jessica's mum brings home every
night, and nobody seems to miss them once they're gone. Only one guy does
miss them, Blanks (Sam Meola), president of the local biker chapter who
has just spent two months in prison, and is rather surprised to see his
whole gang gone since. And soon everybody still standing remembers that
those gone were all last seen with Lucy. Lucy meanwhile has the umpteenth
fall-out with Jessica, but this time Jessica kills her - but then is
shocked about what she has done, throws out her vampire friends and tries
to kill herself exposing herself to the sunlight - but is saved by
neighbourboy Stink (Quentin Carpenter), who has been in love with her for
years. But that's hardly the end of her problems, as now she's not only at
odds with her vampire friends, Blanks has also grown wise to what has been
going on in her house and has called all rivaling biker chapters to
destroy this threat to biker-kind, and there's also a vampire hunter
(Craig Kelly) who (figuratively speaking) wants her blood, so she has her
work cut out for her ...
Girls Just Wanna Have Blood is basically a throwback
movie to straight-to-video teen horror from the 1980s and early 90s (with
variations surviving well into the 2000s) with its combination of teenage
angst, blunt horror, mild titilation and often crude comedy, something
that's mirrored not only in story but also looks and soundtrack - and as a
throwback it works rather nicely, it's remarkably free of post-modern
reinterpretation or "updating" the material for the 21st
century, but thrives to be what these movies of old often were - fun rides
and excellent ways to pass the time, even if they might be forgotten in a
few days time. And Girls Just Wanna Have Blood sure succeeds in
being good (if not especially profound) genre entertainment, basically a
fun way to pass an hour and a half.
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