Utter tripe (Lesbian Vampire Killers (DVD))

Member Name: shaneo632

Product:	Lesbian Vampire Killers (DVD)
Date:	01/07/09 (13 review reads)
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The state of British cinema has always been very hit and miss, and only sometimes reaches the dizzying heights of our stateside fellows. We can't touch them on sheer scale and explosions, so we try and best them with our comedy, which is traditionally wittier and more clever. Lesbian Vampire Killers, however, is complete tosh, and insult not only to British cinema, but film as a whole.

Fletch (James Corden) and Jimmy (Mathew Horne) are two slackers that decide to take a holiday away at a remote village to escape their numerous woes, only to discover that all of its beautiful residents have been enslaved by lesbian vampires, whom they must vanquish in order to break the curse. It's a grindhouse concept that people saw no doubt purely because of its title, but unfortunately, Corden and Horne fail to cash in on the title's promising concept, instead resorting to lowest common denominator humour that won't tickle the funny bone of anyone other than booze-filled lads on a night out.

I'm a liberal guy, but I did find the film's relentless need to break the curse a little unsettling, to the extent that it doesn't really seem as though they're fighting the vampires anymore and simply just trying to turn them into heterosexual women again. Maybe it was just me being cynical, though, yet still, I could very well have overlooked this and maybe even revelled in it if the humour element was there, but as there's very little to laugh about in this film, it just seems kind of mean spirited.

This pathetically inept British film succeeds not as an action film, nor a comedy, nor a horror, nor even a shlocky Grindhouse, B-movie throwback. The film's two leads lack charisma, the jokes fall flat, and there's a distinct air of underlying homophobia. Terrible.

Summary: A shoddy waste of celluloid