Embrace of the Vampire 1995 Film
A Brooding Immortal Searches for the Soul of his Long Lost Love
Sep 29, 2009
A vampire is about to fall into an eternal sleep and the only thing that can save him is if he finds the soul of his lost love. Unfortunately, when he finds her, he also learns that she is already in love with another man. He must end that relationship before he falls asleep forever.
Embrace of the Vampire's Plot and Characters
A young heartbroken man (Martin Kemp) is turned into a vampire by three nymphs and informs the audience through a diary entry that he will soon fall into an eternal sleep for...well, eternity.
Centuries later he discovers the soul of his lost love is within a 17-year old college freshman named Charlotte (Alyssa Milano). The vampire has only 3 days (before he sleeps) to posses the young virgin’s soul and she must give herself to him (how she can give herself willingly whilst under possession doesn't matter). Unfortunately she is in love with someone named Chris (Harrison Pruett) and so the vampire must sow the seeds of doubt between them so he can move in on her without interference.
The vampire needs Charlotte to be pure but during the film more people try to get her into bed, and she starts having sex dreams about the vampire. She is almost seduced by a female photographer and she tries to decide if her boyfriend is the ‘one’. The vampire grows weaker as he tries to split up Charlotte and Chris whilst trying to get her to fall for him.
Alyssa Milano Sheds Her Good Girl Image
Like so many actresses before her, Alyssa Milano wanted to lose her 'good girl' image and it seems that in Hollywood the best way for an actress to do that is to get naked. (Meg Ryan had a similar idea when she made In the Cut).
In Embrace of the Vampire, Milano plays a virgin who seems to shed her clothes at the drop of a hat. It also seems that everyone is trying to get her into bed. With her boyfriend that is, perhaps, not surprising. However, there is also a female photographer who tries it on, and not surprisingly Milano quickly gets topless.
Despite the nudity there is little that makes Embrace of the Vampire worth a watch. Milano fans will be happy to see her topless, yet the reason for her to be naked is clearly unimportant as the director only seemed interested in her showing some flesh. The vampire does nothing even remotely cool during the entire film, and if he ever encountered Blade, the daywalker probably wouldn’t waste a bullet on him. There is a scene in which the vampire smashes a guy to death against a wooden door, and then proceeds to lick the man’s blood from the wood instead of simply crouching down to take the blood directly from his throat. Still, it is not often that an audience will get to the see the forbidden love of a vampire and his door.
In addition, the vampire knows that he is about to fall into an eternal sleep within 3 days, so it begs the question of who told him? Was a memo set round just to remind him that if he hadn’t found his true love he was going to fall into an eternal slumber? Do all vampires ultimately succumb to this kind of sleep unless they can find their lost love? What if they have already found their lost love? What if they have found their true love but the relationship didn't work out so they are now apart do they still fall asleep? And so on and so on...
The only reason that this film has received any recognition is because Alyssa Milano’s beautiful body is on display. Unfortunately, there is nothing else that makes this worth seeing. The vampire is pathetic and is yet another brooding immortal struggling to find his long lost love. Why doesn’t someone just tell these kinds of vampires to just get over it already? If their love is gone, then they are gone. Accept it and move on. Don’t waste immortality roaming the world moaning whilst wallowing in self-pity.
3/10
A film cannot be based on nudity if it is then the audience get to see a fine body but nothing else. This is a vampire film that adds nothing to the genre.
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