87 – Vamps

For our annual Halloween Spooktacular, we chose a movie so terrifying, so unnatural, so deeply unsettling- oh, wait, no, it's just Vamps, a 2012 horror (?) comedy (??) movie (???) about vampires, written and directed by Amy Heckerling. Ah, you might think, at least the idea of vampires filtered through Clueless sounds fun! Well, you'd be wrong, because Amy has left her "good movie" period and become firmly lodged in her "I got a lot of grievances to get out" period. Join Leigh, Brendan, and Chris as they discuss what vampires might conceivably be useful for in fiction, who Amy Heckerling has it out for this time, and why the hell the crux of this movie is about a vampire spontaneously deciding she wants to settle down and have a baby. Well, raise a baby, not like "have a baby for dinner" like Lucy in Bram Stoker's Dracula. Remember, the only thing scary here is how trite the whole endeavor is. Continue reading →