Well, it's not Hamlet...
Thing I've always liked about knowing a few fetish models here and there is that when I see them in a book or something I smile. It's stupid, I know, but just to see someone I kinda know like that gives me a little warm feeling; though that could just be gas. It's part of the reason I was looking forward to seeing 
Kumi in Triple X 2, that one with Ice Cube in it, and was so bummed when they cut the part or parts she was in...
...but I decidedly perked up when I heard
Malice was going to be in a vampire flick.
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11:06 PM 6/29/07 · Her initial review of the experience in making The Thirst, she's an extra with maybe 3 minutes screen time at most...not even sure if it was 2, was pretty good. Really the only sore point was that Adam Baldwin, whom you may know from a variety of films but geeks really nail him with the Firefly series, groped her; just reached on out and grabbed one of her breasts and squeezed it like a grapefruit. My take on how she initially described it, about a year back, was that it happened off camera but this past Friday she posted about it again and I learned it happened in the movie.
The director assured
Malice it wouldn't be in there though...
...and lied!
I just watched it and saw the gropage myself. Now, given the characters involved and the situation I could kinda see how it works in that particular context under those conditions. Then again, it wasn't my boob. She was royally pissed about it, though credit where credit is due you can't tell that in the scene, and put up such a stink she was promised it would be cut from the film. As you might imagine, she's really not happy now.
I suggested napalm.
Anyone that knows the back story behind the police interrogation scene in Basic Instinct with the crossing and uncrossing of Sharon Stone's legs will know these exact circumstances happen quite often. I can't watch that movie anymore given Stone's reaction to it being included in the movie, totally ruined it for me and I loved that film.
That bit o' drama aside, giving this film a distinct sour taste in my mouth before I even watched it, I was quite a bit surprised that I enjoyed it. Which isn't to say I don't have some issues with it but those lil' problems aside...this movie has some decidedly wonky moments that I just loved.
If you like a gratuitous amount of nudity or a gore fest then you've got two reasons right off to like this movie.
One thing that bothered me was that I can't find
Malice listed anywhere in association with this movie. I know she's in it,
Malice is kinda hard not to recognize, but she's not in the credits or listed on the various websites...and I know her real name! It's a little thing, hardly matters, but it still bugs me.
Also in it's another fetish model I'm familiar (in the sense I love her work) with: Voltaire. Her tattoos are very distinctive! Like
Malice I can't find her in the credits either but I don't actually know her so it's less a big deal.
There's a lot of recognizable faces in this thing, from the aforementioned Adam Baldwin to at least two from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The guy that plays Andrew is in this in a minor role but one of the main characters I recognize but can't place. Clare Kramer is supposedly from that show as well but I don't remember her being in it; I can Wikipedia that later. Jeremy Sisto, from Blade the Series is here too and a number of others from various bits of the same type genre. If it wasn't for the fact I've also seen Adam Baldwin in Angel the Series I'd say he's the only one without some prior backing in a horror piece.
The vampires are a little odd...can't remember ever seeing such a drooly bunch before. It's like just before they feed they engage in projectile saliva. Not so much launching it anywhere than it falling out of their mouths like a waterfall. The blood is a tad too fluid for my tastes...though maybe all the saliva mixed in could account for that.
This is basically two former drug addicts, one terminal, who get dragged into a vampire family. That's an exceptionally dumbed down version but that's okay because none of the vamps involved aren't exactly what you'd call a brain trust. We've got one guy that seems to be the head of their family, a woman that manipulates and might actually be the master, Adam Baldwin plays a former Arab with a Texas accent...badly, two out of their mind Asian girls who know one understands are pretty much kept for random sex & violence, and an English vamp with an attitude played adorably by Jeremy Sisto...
...yet another actor that can do no wrong in my eyes.
There's some interesting twists in this. Embracing a human into the nightlife is apparently gender specific, males either can't do it or only under specific circumstances. No religious iconnage does jack to them, no mention on garlic either. On an interesting twist, there's no humans hunting them down and while it's kinda obvious what they are no one is screaming "Vampires!" anywhere in here. Don't actually recall hearing the word being used at all. They are vulnerable to sunlight which is nice and traditional but I think the special effects team kinda messed it up. Exposed skin to sunlight is obviously bad but strangely the bursting into flames doesn't come into play except through some kinda fabric. Plenty of scenes where the skin is fully in the light but no dice...
...yet pretty much every vamp spontaneous combustion situation is all through fabric. Rather than assume there's some kinda twist on the mythology that only vampire clothing is vulnerable to the sun and if vamps ran around naked, which does happen but not in the daylight so I really can't prove this, everyone would be fine.
There is an interesting variation on you are what you eat in here, involving dieased blood, which is kinda cool. I've only ever saw this really used one other place before, an intriguing little novel called Live Girls involving vampire strippers, and it's kinda cool...
...and I'm clearly a little repetitive today.
Seeing as I was drawn to this because of
Malice, though I'd probably have rented it eventually given my love of cheesy horror flicks, it might be nice to critique her. Ordinarily I might not go there, even though I loved teasing her in person once upon a time, but she's currently living in Italy and I'm much too far away to smack. First spotted her within the first 6 minutes of the film, maybe less a few seconds, but only for a little bit. You see Clare Kramer stripping on stage, looking very much the Suicide Girl ironically enough, and then it pans around to her audience;
Malice (or someone disturbingly near identical to her) can be seen blurry in the upper left corner of the screen. Don't see her again until the vamps invade Le Petit Mort (French for "the little death" and a common reference for oragasm) as an initiation for their newest recruit. You see her turning and looking back over her shoulder at them and she looks great. You then get scattered shots of her during the slaughter and then a longer one bathed in blood (this is where Adam Baldwin gropes her) and she doesn't look anywhere near so good. I'm largely chalking that up to her looking terrified...an expression I'm not used to seeing. That and scrunched up in a little booth trying to get away seems to have given her a lot more weight than she has when she's not so scrunched; we may see this bulk again when she's in her 50's.
Fans of
Malice will be happy to know she's giving a lapdance just before the vampire feeding frenzy. Fans might also be a bit put off that you can only see enough of her to know that's what she's doing as she's kinda only visible from a little below the shoulder and up. You see more of her doing the slaughter, mostly splayed with fake blood. You never actually see her killed...
...take heart. There's probably a director's cut out there somewhere that shows more.
Because of the thing with Adam Baldwin I'm probably not gonna see this again but it's got its moments. I might go so far as to recommend this to people at least for seeing it just the one time. My favorite part is a scene where two of them are away from the vamp family and, these being the former addicts who are new vampires, they're going through a very powerful withdrawal. The stuff they do is amazing to watch and very fun. This one scene is worth seeing even if the rest of the film isn't...
...though it kinda is.
Kinda.
Looking this film up online proved a little tricky as there's another one by the same name that apparently came out at the same time, least it's listed for the same year. You see this every so often: two movies came out for the gunfight at the O.K. Corral within months of each other as well as two movies about Christopher Columbus. Anyway, here's the trailer for the other one: Clicky! It actually looks better than this one by a bit.
I mentioned 3 fetish models in this post but if you don't know who they are that's relatively easy to fix. One of the communities I'm xposting this to I've posted numerous images of them. However, keep in mind the following links lead to images that are extremely not work safe. You should not view them unless you're in the privacy of your own home or somewhere that's decidedly not public:
Kumi in Triple X 2, that one with Ice Cube in it, and was so bummed when they cut the part or parts she was in...
...but I decidedly perked up when I heard
Malice was going to be in a vampire flick.
xposted to
Bondage·A·Go·Go,
House·of·Skin,
Multi·Genre·Fandom, &
Renting·Reviews
11:06 PM 6/29/07 · Her initial review of the experience in making The Thirst, she's an extra with maybe 3 minutes screen time at most...not even sure if it was 2, was pretty good. Really the only sore point was that Adam Baldwin, whom you may know from a variety of films but geeks really nail him with the Firefly series, groped her; just reached on out and grabbed one of her breasts and squeezed it like a grapefruit. My take on how she initially described it, about a year back, was that it happened off camera but this past Friday she posted about it again and I learned it happened in the movie.
The director assured
Malice it wouldn't be in there though...
...and lied!
I just watched it and saw the gropage myself. Now, given the characters involved and the situation I could kinda see how it works in that particular context under those conditions. Then again, it wasn't my boob. She was royally pissed about it, though credit where credit is due you can't tell that in the scene, and put up such a stink she was promised it would be cut from the film. As you might imagine, she's really not happy now.
I suggested napalm.
Anyone that knows the back story behind the police interrogation scene in Basic Instinct with the crossing and uncrossing of Sharon Stone's legs will know these exact circumstances happen quite often. I can't watch that movie anymore given Stone's reaction to it being included in the movie, totally ruined it for me and I loved that film.
That bit o' drama aside, giving this film a distinct sour taste in my mouth before I even watched it, I was quite a bit surprised that I enjoyed it. Which isn't to say I don't have some issues with it but those lil' problems aside...this movie has some decidedly wonky moments that I just loved.
If you like a gratuitous amount of nudity or a gore fest then you've got two reasons right off to like this movie.
One thing that bothered me was that I can't find
Malice listed anywhere in association with this movie. I know she's in it,
Malice is kinda hard not to recognize, but she's not in the credits or listed on the various websites...and I know her real name! It's a little thing, hardly matters, but it still bugs me.
Also in it's another fetish model I'm familiar (in the sense I love her work) with: Voltaire. Her tattoos are very distinctive! Like
Malice I can't find her in the credits either but I don't actually know her so it's less a big deal.
There's a lot of recognizable faces in this thing, from the aforementioned Adam Baldwin to at least two from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The guy that plays Andrew is in this in a minor role but one of the main characters I recognize but can't place. Clare Kramer is supposedly from that show as well but I don't remember her being in it; I can Wikipedia that later. Jeremy Sisto, from Blade the Series is here too and a number of others from various bits of the same type genre. If it wasn't for the fact I've also seen Adam Baldwin in Angel the Series I'd say he's the only one without some prior backing in a horror piece.
The vampires are a little odd...can't remember ever seeing such a drooly bunch before. It's like just before they feed they engage in projectile saliva. Not so much launching it anywhere than it falling out of their mouths like a waterfall. The blood is a tad too fluid for my tastes...though maybe all the saliva mixed in could account for that.
This is basically two former drug addicts, one terminal, who get dragged into a vampire family. That's an exceptionally dumbed down version but that's okay because none of the vamps involved aren't exactly what you'd call a brain trust. We've got one guy that seems to be the head of their family, a woman that manipulates and might actually be the master, Adam Baldwin plays a former Arab with a Texas accent...badly, two out of their mind Asian girls who know one understands are pretty much kept for random sex & violence, and an English vamp with an attitude played adorably by Jeremy Sisto...
...yet another actor that can do no wrong in my eyes.
There's some interesting twists in this. Embracing a human into the nightlife is apparently gender specific, males either can't do it or only under specific circumstances. No religious iconnage does jack to them, no mention on garlic either. On an interesting twist, there's no humans hunting them down and while it's kinda obvious what they are no one is screaming "Vampires!" anywhere in here. Don't actually recall hearing the word being used at all. They are vulnerable to sunlight which is nice and traditional but I think the special effects team kinda messed it up. Exposed skin to sunlight is obviously bad but strangely the bursting into flames doesn't come into play except through some kinda fabric. Plenty of scenes where the skin is fully in the light but no dice...
...yet pretty much every vamp spontaneous combustion situation is all through fabric. Rather than assume there's some kinda twist on the mythology that only vampire clothing is vulnerable to the sun and if vamps ran around naked, which does happen but not in the daylight so I really can't prove this, everyone would be fine.
There is an interesting variation on you are what you eat in here, involving dieased blood, which is kinda cool. I've only ever saw this really used one other place before, an intriguing little novel called Live Girls involving vampire strippers, and it's kinda cool...
...and I'm clearly a little repetitive today.
Seeing as I was drawn to this because of
Malice, though I'd probably have rented it eventually given my love of cheesy horror flicks, it might be nice to critique her. Ordinarily I might not go there, even though I loved teasing her in person once upon a time, but she's currently living in Italy and I'm much too far away to smack. First spotted her within the first 6 minutes of the film, maybe less a few seconds, but only for a little bit. You see Clare Kramer stripping on stage, looking very much the Suicide Girl ironically enough, and then it pans around to her audience;
Malice (or someone disturbingly near identical to her) can be seen blurry in the upper left corner of the screen. Don't see her again until the vamps invade Le Petit Mort (French for "the little death" and a common reference for oragasm) as an initiation for their newest recruit. You see her turning and looking back over her shoulder at them and she looks great. You then get scattered shots of her during the slaughter and then a longer one bathed in blood (this is where Adam Baldwin gropes her) and she doesn't look anywhere near so good. I'm largely chalking that up to her looking terrified...an expression I'm not used to seeing. That and scrunched up in a little booth trying to get away seems to have given her a lot more weight than she has when she's not so scrunched; we may see this bulk again when she's in her 50's.
Fans of
Malice will be happy to know she's giving a lapdance just before the vampire feeding frenzy. Fans might also be a bit put off that you can only see enough of her to know that's what she's doing as she's kinda only visible from a little below the shoulder and up. You see more of her doing the slaughter, mostly splayed with fake blood. You never actually see her killed...
...take heart. There's probably a director's cut out there somewhere that shows more.
Because of the thing with Adam Baldwin I'm probably not gonna see this again but it's got its moments. I might go so far as to recommend this to people at least for seeing it just the one time. My favorite part is a scene where two of them are away from the vamp family and, these being the former addicts who are new vampires, they're going through a very powerful withdrawal. The stuff they do is amazing to watch and very fun. This one scene is worth seeing even if the rest of the film isn't...
...though it kinda is.
Kinda.
Looking this film up online proved a little tricky as there's another one by the same name that apparently came out at the same time, least it's listed for the same year. You see this every so often: two movies came out for the gunfight at the O.K. Corral within months of each other as well as two movies about Christopher Columbus. Anyway, here's the trailer for the other one: Clicky! It actually looks better than this one by a bit.
I mentioned 3 fetish models in this post but if you don't know who they are that's relatively easy to fix. One of the communities I'm xposting this to I've posted numerous images of them. However, keep in mind the following links lead to images that are extremely not work safe. You should not view them unless you're in the privacy of your own home or somewhere that's decidedly not public: