If I had to run down the list of every movie LVK aped I would run out of space. However despite the many winks & nods LVK still manages to be top notch from start to finish. Two friends decide to go on a poor mans holiday to some quaint little backwoods English village it doesn't take long for the high camp hijinks to kick in full swing. I am an avid movie watcher but my love lies in horror. Horror & comedy don't usually work for me but that doesn't mean I don't have my favorites in that category. The last & most recent would be the criminally overlooked Poultrygeist. I think the problem is that horror comedies either fall short or just go way overboard its a delicate balance that very few can master & even those who master it once usually don't do it twice. Im looking at you Sam Rami(Evil Dead 2)Peter Jackson(Dead Alive) Lesbian Vampire Killers has it all for me continuous deadpan humor glorious sets the right amount of prosthetics fantastic makeup effects & overall just a really good sense of the macabre. LVK comes across as a studied homage to all the great horror comedies of the last 20 years or so & not just something someone threw together after watching Shaun of the Dead once or twice. I think Lesbian Vampire Killers would make a great theatrical experience around Halloween here in the states if wasn't for the dreaded bully Saw series that everyone is still so afraid to compete with. Oh well i guess those of us who loved it will have to rely on word of mouth to spread this thing around. Otherwise I have a feeling LVK will disappear into obscurity pretty fast.
Review of Vampire Killers
