Crimson Nights

Release Date:

1999 USA

Running time:

77' - Source: DVD (RC 1/NTSC)

Rating:

US: NR

Main Crew:

Director: Jeffrey Arsenault (as Gregory Cabot) (Blood Craving 2002; Date With A
Vampire 2001; Night Owl 1993)
Producer: Seduction Cinema
Score: n/a
Writer: Jeffrey Arsenault (as Lori Jannel)
Director of photography: Scooter McCrae

Cast:

Summary:

A plague of sexually charged vampirism stalks the streets of New York, and no one is safe from its contamination.
Susan (Roberta Orlandi) has been recently turned, and she must pass the curse on to a fresh victim to insure its rampant human infiltration. Seducing her boyfriend Burt (Lev Gorn) to the point of exhaustion with a voluptuous body and an unholy mouth that crave pleasures of the flesh, Susan delivers the final undying kiss. A vampire himself now, Burt hunts for his first meal, and he ends up in the bed of the sex-starved Jasmine (Tina Krause). Amidst their steamy love-making, Burt puts the bite on her, and another monster is born. Jasmine ravishes Kate (Lori Thomas) body and soul, and on and on and one by one the sensual bloodlust is spread as prey becomes predator - victim becomes vanquisher. Eroticism has never been so sinful nor so sinister, and the lives of ten people will forever be changed on this crimson night.

Note:

- Director Jeffrey Arsenault produced a series of five made-for-video horror movies, with "Crimson Nights" being the first one. This was Arsenault's first dip into the DV world - everything he had done prior was on film - and was inspired by the rash of "lesbian vampire" videos which has popped up in recent years.

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Our Ranking

short review:

Vampirism and sexuality go very well together, in fact, sexual attraction and seduction are a big part of the vampire myth. But when the balance shifts off to endless, repetitive (and by that boring and interchangeable) erotic encounters, with vampirism serving solely as a vehicle to get more attention/viewers, then the result wonï¿½t be satisfying, at least in a cineastic point of view. Hey, I mean, thereï¿½s nothing wrong with some "naked facts" in a movie once in a while, but if those are the only facts at all, Iï¿½d rather watch porn instead. On the other hand, if you rent or buy a movie like "Crimson Nights", you probably donï¿½t want to be bothered by something like a hard-to-follow storyline. At least the movie doesnï¿½t promise anything like that, and delivers what one would expect by the first short glimpse on the backcover. So, if the vampiric content ainï¿½t your prime interest, and youï¿½d like to see several girls doing several shower-scenes and performing softcore action, you may like the movieï¿½