Vampire Killer Barbys

1996
3.7| 1h27m| en
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While driving on tour late night through a lonely road in the countryside of Spain, the van of the punk band "Killer Barbys" has an accident and breaks down. A creepy old man invites the group to spend the night in the castle of Countess Von Fledermaus and presents himself as her secretary Arkan. Arkan explains that the mechanic is located 62 km far from the location and he tells that the Countess loves youths. Flavia, Rafa and Mario accept the invitation but Billy and Sharon stay shagging in the van. When the musicians meet the Countess, they find that she is the ancient artist Olga Luchan and they question how she could keep so young. But sooner they discover that the Countess needs blood of young people to keep her beauty.

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Jacinto Santos Parrás

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Raetsonwe Redundant and unnecessary.
Actuakers One of my all time favorites.
Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
Taha Avalos The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.
Platypuschow The Legendary Spanish director Jess Franco is known for some fantastic cinema, alas this certainly isn't among them and will be a blotch on his record.It follows a female fronted rock band as they break down on route to their next gig and get invited into a foreboding looking castle for the night.Essentially our antagonist is a blatant ripoff of the Countess Elizabeth Báthory with a couple of human minions who help her acquire the blood of the young (Virgins not required in this instance) Though advertised as a horror this is a very camp attempt and more like a comedy. One character in particular played by Santiago Segura (Blade 1998) is so over the top and so zany any hope of the film being taken seriously went out the window.The movie has a decent lead and memorable soundtrack though they really should have considered writing more songs and not playing the same one on a loop.The Good: Great leading lady The Bad: Looks very dated Not exactly a horror Soundtrack gets repetitive Dumbest ending in cinema history? Definite contender Things I Learnt From This Movie: Before throwing a naked woman out a window to her death it's only polite to put a nightie on her first
Mikel3 Yep, that's the title...'Killer Barbys'. I read they couldn't use 'Barbies' in the title due to issues with Mattel toys. Turns out that 'Killer Barbies' is actually the name of the punk rock group that stars in this film. The title attracted me to it thinking it might be worth a few laughs, it wasn't. I should have checked a little more about the film before I decided to watch it. This was written and directed by Jesus Franco. I kind of like some of his earlier work like 'The Diabolical Dr. Z (1966) and 'The Awful Dr. Orlof' (1962). After seeing this it's obvious he is well overdue for retirement. There was nothing to the formula story that hasn't been done a hundred times before and much better. Yes, there's gore, luckily of the silly very fake variety. Even the bodies looked fake...stiff as plastic mannequins when they're carried. There's one scene where a nude vampire woman is thrown out a window. When she leaves the room from the inside she's naked....as we see her falling from outside the house she is wearing a white negligee. She must have stopped somewhere between the top floor and the ground to put it on. The whole movie is ridiculous...I really should have turned it off, I was mesmerized by how poor it was. I can't believe they actually made a sequel a few years later. I read it's even worse than this one. I give this a 1 out of 10 rating because at least the music was catchy.
Joseph P. Ulibas Killer Barbys (1996) was a vanity piece disguised as an old creepy horror film used to promote the Spanish punk-pop band THE KILLER BARBIES. The band is fronted by the hot Silvia Superstar. A lot of the band's music is played during the movie. Two of the actually band members appear in the film (Silvia Superstar and her boyfriend co-founder/Drummer Billy King). Jesus Franco creates a creepy old school horror film around the band. The band is cruising the back roads of Spain heading towards another gig. But the band never makes it to the other town before nightfall. Their van has broken down and they need to find a place that has a telephone. Three of the band members leave the broken down vehicle to look for help. What luck the band has. They come across an old castle. Inside they find an elderly gentleman who offers them a place for the night will he calls a tow truck. Silvia has her suspicions about the place and the people that dwell within it. The countess (the owner of the castle) wants them to stay for dinner. Will Silvia and her band mates take the middle aged woman's offer. How will the two band members who stayed behind fare? Why was the elderly host acting peculiar? To find out you' ll just have to watch KILLER BARBYS!!A fun film that doesn't try to be something it's not. If you're into vanity projects or some old school horror then you'll want to watch KILLER BARBYS. Silvia Superstar is hot and I hope you'll agree with me fellas! En espanol with English sub-titles.Highly recommended.
ThrownMuse A rock band (The Killer Barbies, the title of the film was changed as not to upset Barbie) gets stranded when driving to their next show. They find a castle to stay at until their van gets fixed, but the blood-craving Countess has other plans for them. This is a terrible movie. I have never heard music by Killer Barbies, and I was annoyed to find that it was an all male band with two female singer/strippers. I was expecting a bad-ass girl band, not a Lords of Acid lite playing mall punk. Fortunately the music is sort of catchy, but it gets tiring after hearing it for an hour and a half. I'm not sure how successful Killer Barbies is in their home country or what their motives were in making this movie. An interview clip before the movie shows the lead singer saying they wanted to make the goriest movie ever (which it doesn't come close to being), but she doesn't say anything about why the band wanted to make sex scene after sex scene after sex scene. Sometimes the movie goes Scooby Doo and it is sort of amusing, but overall, this is a big waste of time. The scariest thing about "Killer Barbys," besides the godawful dubbing, is that a sequel was made! My Rating: 2/10