Even after all this time I still don't see exactly what the appeal is of cheap vampire lesbian films such as this one. But there must be an audience out there somewhere as Dracula's Dirty Daughter joins the ranks of Red Lips, Caress Of The Vampire, and Vampire Vixens as just a sampling of the titles the sub-genre has to offer. Perhaps there's just something about nubile (usually un-attractive) girls wearing fake fangs and writhing about in faker blood that gets certain people aroused even though it's nothing someone couldn't see on the multiple specialty web pages littering the Internet.

However, what makes this one a little bit more interesting than most is that writer-director Michele Pacitto isn't just interested in softcore sex scenes instead mixing them in with a fairly straight-forward vampire tale that gets a boost from Alysabeth Clements in the title role giving a sarcastic and winning performance that's better than this movie deserves.

You pretty much know not to expect this to be an outright horror flick from the get go when the opening scene is a peeping tom moment, though it's amusingly in reverse as our perverted window peeker gets to watch a young girl get dressed instead of stripping. But perhaps he should've stuck around instead of being scared off, as there's two other lingerie-clad ladies in the room. Another thing that cements our "oh God, not another dull as shit erotic horror movie" opinion early on is that it seems the credit sequence is only interested in titillation as we get to see various scenes of simulated groping that will pop-up later on - while most of the cast seems to be made up of people sporting fake porn star-like misspelled names.

After emerging from the trunk of a car, our redheaded Vampirina (Clements) heads-out with the intention of getting revenge on the reincarnation of her most hated enemy. The only problem is she doesn't quite know where he's located and she's soon answering a personal ad of a "bi-curious" college student in order to try and use her to help her find her foe. Learning that she's looking for a student named John (Tom Martwick) she soon disposes of her newly turned slave and starts her search.

A pretty normal college guy, John and friend Matt (Justiz Donaldson) are looking for a new roommate after they kick-out their last one (who just happens to be our peeper) and, as luck would have it, Vampirina shows-up to take the room. Seems she has to get John to fall deeply in love with her so she can perform a ritual to remove his heart and absorb his soul - or something like that, I can't profess to paying rote attention to the plot. It all ends with Vamiprina, her ritual, and a low-scale showdown (and set-up for a sequel).

At one time going under the titles Vampirina and Mistress Of Seduction, this has obviously been re-titled to make it sound a lot more risqué than it actually is and while Pacitto does throw in a bunch of pretty random sex scenes it still turns out to be a mildly enjoyable time that doesn't seem to be taking itself too seriously. As mentioned before, Clements gives it her all in the title role (this is her only film credit to date) and even gets to pretend to bite off Martwick's privates in a dream sequence as well as spit out a night club bouncer's blood because it's tainted with steroids. The rest of the amateur cast is generally alright though Donaldson (and his distracting dangly earring) needs to learn how to deliver dialogue a bit better - but maybe it's not his fault as an early scene calls for our frat boys to spout some really bad insults at each other.

It's not high art and there's not nearly enough horror elements to make you forget about all the so-so tongue wrestling scenes but Dracula's Dirty Daughter isn't the complete wash I expected going in. It's a cheaply made effort and is pretty forgettable but at least Pacitto tries to make it more than a late night Cinemax waste of space and Clements is not only a good villianess but actually keeps her clothes on for the entire thing (the side-viewed boob doesn't count). (Chris Hartley, 10/12/07)

Directed By: Michele Pacitto.
Written By: Michele Pacitto.

Starring: Alysabeth Clements, Gentle Fritz, Tom Martwick, Michelle Tebow.

aka: Mistress Of Seduction; Vampirina.

Picture Ratio: Full Frame.

Picture Quality: You can't expect a pristine picture considering this is a shot-on-video cheapie but it generally looks okay on disc even if it's barely about VHS quality.

Extras: Previously released under its Mistress Of Seduction title on DVD this new Secret Key release seems to have carried over all the extras from that release (perhaps minus the outtakes) and just changed the movie's title and key art.

We get a trailer (as well as trailers for other Secret Key releases), a retro-stag sampler hosted by "42nd Street Pete" that's exactly what it sounds like - a 60's nudie reel, auditions footage of the cast, and twelve-minutes of behind-the-scenes footage. It's nothing much, but I didn't expect it to be.