Serena Movies
Director John Dahl's The Last Seduction is an updated film noir centering around a seductive, cheerfully lethal femme fatale. Bridget Gregory (Linda Fiorentino) talks her gullible, easily manipulated, doctor-husband Clay (Bill Pullman) into pulling off a $700,000 drug deal to pay off his gambling debts. But while Clay is in the shower, Bridget quietly leaves with the money. She ends up in a bar in a small town where she meets Mike (Peter Berg) and uses him to further her scheme to keep the money and get rid of her inconvenient husband. Linda Fiorentino was championed by many critics for a Best Actress Academy Award nomination, but neither she nor the movie could be nominated since the film had made its debut on cable television. ~ Linda Rasmussen, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Linda Fiorentino, Peter Berg, (more)
- 1979
- R
Part of a late-'70s revival of interest in horror and particularly the character of Dracula, this soft-core horror comedy was directed by Philip Marshak, featured a bevy of porn stars, and was released the same year as the somewhat similar but far more successful vampire spoof Love at First Bite. The legendary vampire Count Dracula (Jamie Gillis) preys on shapely women by night, but he's got a problem: he can only consume the blood of virgins. With the help of his fly-consuming, sniveling assistant Renfield, the count attempts to seduce the comely Mina (Annette Haven) over to the side of the undead, but first he must avoid the intrepid Professor Van Helsing and his wooden stakes. Hewing somewhat faithfully to the original novel by Bram Stoker, Dracula Sucks was the second nudity-heavy adult film of the same name and featured generous amounts of skin and sexual situations, as well as porn favorites Seka and John Holmes in supporting roles. ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide
Italian mobsters go to war with black hoodlums, turning the streets of Harlem into an all-out war zone as both sides call on their best assassins to level the playing field. Feared crime boss Big Tony (Frank DeKova) isn't about to give up his turf without a fight, even if it means calling on his most unpredictable assassin - a psychotic transvestite who makes lethal use of her high-heeled shoes. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Frank de Kova, Paul Harris, (more)
A noted Australian researcher and sexologist presents his findings concerning the Top Ten female sexual fantasies in lusty detail in this erotic pseudo-documentary. Watch as beautiful women engage in incestuous intercourse, find religion in most unusual places, make love to each other, and use pain to pleasure the men in their lives. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1971
Writer Zenna Henderson's science-fiction stories were the basis for this made-for-TV movie. A young teacher goes to a remote area to work with secluded and backwards inhabitants. She accidentally discovers, though, that the residents are actually aliens with psychic-powers who escaped their own now-destroyed planet and are hiding here on Earth, hoping to blend in. ~ Bernadette McCallion, All Movie Guide
- 1971
- PG
Though not as widely known as Hammer's popular Dracula and Frankenstein series, this is one of the studio's more stylish and intelligent projects. The tale is set in 17th century Serbia in the tiny burg of Stettel, whose residents live in fear of an encroaching plague. The frightened villagers welcome the arrival of a colorful traveling troupe dubbed "Circus of Nights," unaware that the visiting entertainers pose a far more deadly threat: the entire company is composed of shape-shifting vampires capable of transforming themselves into animals to stalk their prey. The group's leader, the most powerful monster of the bunch, has returned to the village to exact revenge on those who murdered his cousin one hundred years earlier. Less a standard Hammer monster melodrama than a surreal journey through dark fantasy (reminiscent of Jean Rollin's erotic vampire series), with an unexpected (but not entirely inappropriate) surplus of nudity and bloodletting. The film's creepy highlights include the chilling extended prologue and scenes of vampire trapeze performers transforming into bats in mid-leap. ~ Cavett Binion, All Movie Guide
