Sunday 24 July 2011

Lesbian Vampire Killers

I've been doing so many comics of late that I really felt I need a change, this is a movie that really slipped under the radar for a lot of people and I really don't think it should have. And while I would not put it on the level of comedy parodies such as Hot Fuzz it really was genuinely funny and really enjoyable. Lesbian Vampire Killers. And in answer to your first question this is about killers of lesbian vampire rather than lesbian killers of vampires.

When the second Twilight movie came out my friends and I enjoyed a movie marathon night called 'Real Vampires don't sparkle', in this aside from some of the classics we looked for new vampire movies and couldn't go past the title. This is a really upbeat movie that I'm not going to lie has a large amount of it's humour based in dick jokes. Normally this is the kind of humour that I really don't like and yet I've seen this so many times and still are not sick of it.

Focusing on our two main hero's, Fletch and Jimmy; played by James Corden and Mathew Horne, who have come to Cragwich on holiday hiking as Fletch has lost his job and Jimmy just got dumped, and neither have the money to do anything fun... I know the feeling. Little did they know that the town of Cragwich has an ancient curse over it, a curse that brings the infestation of really really hot chicks. And as night falls they, and some other hot chicks... from Sweden, have to fight for their lives against the Army of Darkness.... Groovy.

It's in the writing that the talent of this comedy duo really comes through, whilst I can't really call it 'witty' as the humour is all based solely around the idea of dicks and lesbians, two concepts that are somewhat dancing opposites there is something delightfully British about them. I know this may sound strange that I like the comedy simply because it's British, as though they have a free pass on making low brow dick jokes because of their high class accents but quiet frankly anyone who enjoyed watching the Python boys dressed as girls will probably enjoy at least some of the humour of Lesbian Vampire Killers. And if you haven't then what is wrong with you?



My copy autographed by Paul Mcgann, playing the Vicor.

4/5
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6 comments:

  1. Jesse Rose24 July 2011 at 03:02

    One of the greatest vampire movies EVER.


    Ja!

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  2. Jess Allen24 July 2011 at 05:37

    XD Who can't love Lesbian Vampire Killers? "It's not like I'm gonna go 'oh hi Lesbian Vampires, why don't you come on in'...oh damn"

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  3. Hannah Walker24 July 2011 at 05:42

    Loved this movie (though the whole 'only non-virgins can become vampires!' thing was a little eyebrow raising. Which was obviously not the only eyebrow raising thing about it, but with a title like that, what else can you expect). Paul Mcgann is one of my eternal celebrity crushes.

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  4. Phoenix24 July 2011 at 07:06

    It actually never says only virgins can become vampires in this movie... after all some of the Swedish girls become vampires and there is not way Trudy is a virgin. They just needed the blood of a virgin to raise the vampire queen. I think your thinking of Hellsing Hannah.

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  5. Hannah Walker27 July 2011 at 05:21

    Whoops, wrong one. Wait, wasn't it that you could only become a vampire if you were NOT a virgin in Lesbian Vampire Killers? I'm getting my vampire movies mixed up.

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  6. anniea13 August 2011 at 23:23

    Love Horne and Corden! This movie is my guilty pleasure.

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