SoTrumpBelieve Must See Movie...

Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Lucia Ayala It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

artpf Sleepy-eyed nice guy Lee Ritter and his vapid, but pretty wife, Susan accept the invitation of mysterious vixen Diane LeFanu to visit her in her secluded desert estate. Tensions arise when the couple, unaware at first that Diane is in reality a centuries-old vampire, realize that they are both objects of the pale temptress' seductions.Like vampires, the movie sucks. Plain and simple. It rambles, is poorly directed and has no purpose. The script is non existent and the costuming laffable.One of the few Roger Corman bombs.BTW the vampires come out in the bright desert sun! Ugh

Joseph Brando Okay, first things first, Velvet Vampire emphasizes neither Vampires, nor Velvet. This film has much more in common with that strange sub-sub-genre of 70's sexual awakening films where a person, or couple, meets an unusual and erotic woman, or man, and travels to a far off place secluded from the reality of everyday life never to return home the same again. In this case it is a couple made up of beefy bodied, effeminate-featured Lee, and his extremely awkward wife, Susan. They travel to the middle of the desert as guests of the weird, beautiful and eccentric Diane LeFanu, the Velvet Vampire. Most of the film involves the erratic far-out shenanigans of these three and slowly but surely the vampire angle builds. While VV may not involve a lot of hissing, pointy teethed nightcrawlers - it does weave a strange entrancing spell mainly due to the sheer utter weirdness of the trio of folks at its core. These are three actors you would never normally see in a film. Coupled with a very unusual vampire location - a dessert villa - this is tale of the undead that likely has not been seen before or since. And again - it is very 70's!! For this reason alone, I highly recommend a viewing to all fans of Gothic, Vampire or Strange 70's Flicks - as it offers a slightly skewed version of each.

The_Void The Velvet Vampire really could have been a good film; the plot is there, but the execution is really bad and serves only in making the film really boring for most of the duration. Things pick up a little for the final twenty minutes; but by then it's far too late. The film focuses on a young couple, Lee and Susan, who meet an older woman named Diane and agree to spend a few days with her at her place. However, Diane turns out to be more than what she initially seems when she at first tries to start an affair with both people; and eventually reveals herself as a vampire. The film really features very little vampire action, and it's a travesty that the word was featured in the title. The main bulk of the film concerns the interaction between the three central characters, and we end up with a sort of love triangle; although this is very dull indeed and most of it feels like padding - in particular the supposed-to-be trippy dream sequences that go nowhere. As previously mentioned, things do pick up a little in the final third when it is finally revealed that Diane is a vampire and what follows is really rather good; but not good enough to save the entire film. The Velvet Vampire is a rare film, and I'm confident that it will stay that way as there's no good reason to track this one down.

Scarecrow-88 Lee & Susan Ritter(Michael Blodgett & Sherry Miles), whose marriage seems shaky at best and plagued with problems, meet a mysterious and sultry woman, Diane(Celeste Yarnall)at an art gallery. They accept an invitation to her Mojave desert abode, and while traveling their car breaks down. While waiting for an ordered part, the Ritters remain at Diane's home. Lee succumbs to Diane's erotic advances while Susan helplessly watches her marriage dwindling..yet, as the film continues, Susan seems to care less about her husband's adultery and even warms to Diane after a scare with a snake bite(..Diane sucked out the venom from Susan's leg before the poison could spread). Both Lee and Susan continue to have an erotically charged, surreal dream with Diane separating them from love-making in the middle of a desert. Meanwhile, Diane has her manservant Juan(Jerry Daniels)fetch up victims for their blood..she's indeed an atypical vampire who can withstand amounts of sunlight(..although, she covers her body with lots of clothing when out in her dune buggy)and her reflection indeed appears when looking in a mirror. Diane's daily ritual is to rest in her carefully preserved burial spot with her long dead husband(..through a unique Indian burial, Diane's husband's body is kept as it once was upon death)! Will the Ritters escape Diane's clutched before it's too late or wind up like those who once inhabited the desert countryside, now resting among the massive burial site where Diane often frequents? Strange little vampire tale. This might have an appeal to fans of Drive-in type Midnight Movies. I think the main reasons to see it are Celeste Yarnall's seductive vampire and the desert setting which is quite an interesting backdrop creating a unique experience for the viewer used to the typical vampire locales. I think Blodgett and Miles' couple are terribly uninteresting, I'm afraid, and nowhere near as fascinating and alluring as Yarnall, who could fit in quite well in the Euro-vampire flicks coming out at the time. Sherry Miles is atrocious as Susan, quite an irritating chick, with a great figure, who gripes and complains throughout most of this flick. Her naive bubblehead should've been killed quite sooner..it's a stretch asking us to believe Yarnall's bloodsucker wouldn't have easy pickens with this idiot. Blodgett is merely vacating a male role for Diane to seduce..he doesn't exude much of anything other than the horny husband whose wife isn't putting out, longing for Diane's embrace. The film might be a bit slow-moving for many. The final fifteen minutes picks up the pace considerably as Diane chases after Susan, desiring her for blood and sex.More of an interesting curiosity for vampire fans..nothing mind-blowing, I'm afraid. This has a LOW budget, although I never found this a liability because the desert location really worked for me and the non-inhabited silence because of how Diane drank the area dry, is quite eerie. The screams from those attacked shriek a bit too loudly, though. Despite what you might hope for..while there is nudity, the sex is mild and lesbian possibilities never reach their zenith.