Vampires

Name: Vampires
Genre: Horror
Released: 1986-01-01
Duration: 1 h 20 min
Rating: 4.7
Cast: Duane Jones, Jackie James, John Bly

1986
1h 20m

IMDb RATING

4.7/10

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The students at a private art school are unaware that the school's headmistress is secretly using a machine to extract the life energy from young girls there.The students at a private art school are unaware that the school's headmistress is secretly using a machine to extract the life energy from young girls there.The students at a private art school are unaware that the school's headmistress is secretly using a machine to extract the life energy from young girls there.

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IMDb RATING

4.7/10

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In the movie, the last name Abadon is intentionally very similar to Abaddon. In the Hebrew Bible, Abaddon is the name of a bottomless pit that leads to the realm of the dead. In the New Testament, the Book of Revelation also mentions Abaddon but as the name of the angel of destruction and king of the armies of locusts. In Greek and Latin, the word is translated as the Destroyer.

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Edited from Negatives (1988)

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Weak, unsatisfying horror pic

My review was written in May 1988 after a Cannes Film Festival Market screening.

"Vampires", previously titled "Abadon" is a low-budget horror iflm with a frustratingly unfinished look about it. Interst will be limited to extreme cultists.

Fragmentary story unfolds at Abadon, a private school in Connecticut presided over by old-fashioned villainess Madeline (Jackie James). Using a machine (very cheap designwork) created by her late scientist husband, she has achieved immortality by stealing the energy of her students.

Dr. Harmon (Duane Jones, star of "Night of the Living Dead") is an occultist who fills us in on the pic's scientiic background with mumbo-jumbo dialog. Amidst several stalker-type murder scenes, pointless cutaway shots to closeups of tarot cards or gargoyles on the building's facade, filmmaker Len Anthony inserts numerous phoned-in scenes of voice-over during pointless filler footage. Key scenes, such asw the fate of the heroine coed Ione (playe by attractive Orly Benair) or a flashback concerning the surprise parentage of fellow student Deborah (Robin Michaels) are missing.

Anthony has some occasionally striking shots by famous cameramen Ernest Dickerson (of Spike Lee's pics) and Larry Revene (Chuck Vincent's favorite), but the acting is awkward.