Review
by Lou Goncey
Let's
start with the rundown: Stephen Tsepes (Silvio
Oliviero), vampire at large, drives a taxi
during the graveyard shift, picks up hot
babes who are depressed and horny, and then
proceeds to turn their jugulars into beer
taps. Then along comes Michele (Helen Papas),
a dead ringer for Tsepes' old flame. Her
husband is two- timing her and she is also
terminally ill making life as an
immortal undead person look mighty appealing.
I'd hit the flick with the
megathumbs down if it weren't for the large
breasts sported by the nude sexy chicks.
(For heterosexual female readers
megathumbs down, without saying). Writer/director
Gerard Ciccoritti farts out all the bloated
cliches of the vampire subgenre, hoping
to jazz up the proceedings with slick MIAMI
VICE/MTV-style photography. Unfortunately,
pretty pictures don't cut it when you have
no story to tell.
The two original concepts
(a taxi-driving vampire and vampirism as
a cure-all for cancer) are thrown out early.
Shortly afterwards, the story sputters to
a halt, and we're left with a flick trying
to pad itself out to an acceptable "movie"
length. The conclusion is inevitable, and
can be seen any Saturday afternoon, somewhere
on cable-TV.