This one has been on my list to eventually get to for quite some time, and apparently now was the time. If I’d realized how much of a comedy it was before this, I would have dug into it a while ago, Ias it ends up being a lot of fun. If silly.

A.J. (Robert Rusler, who horror fans will recognize from Nightmare on Elm Street 2), and Keith (Chris Makepeace from Meatballs) are eager to get into a fraternity, and when the initiation goes wrong, the guys still want in, but figure they can buy their way in with the promise of procuring a stripper for a party.

They team up with Duncan (Gedde Watanabe from Sixteen Candles) and head into town, heading to an After Dark club in the hopes of finding just the right girl. While Keith tries to figure out why one of the waitresses, Allison (Deedee Pfeiffer) seems to know him, A.J. makes overtures toward the club’s most exotic performer, Katrina (Grace Jones who based her performance on Max Shreck in Nosferatu).

And what does that mean, Katrina and others in the club are vampires!!

And as the bodies begin to pile up the group is going to have to fight to survive the night. Of course, the problems aren’t only supernatural, there’s Billy Drago as a menacing albino to contend with as well.

Definitely 80s in its humour and style, Vamp is a fun ride, and while it’s no Lost Boys or Fright Night or Near Dark, it definitely is kin to them, some of the lighting has a Schumacher style to it to be sure. The sewer sequence feels very Batman & Robin.

There’s some great stuff during the climax of the movie, one of them plays nicely with the established tropes of the vampire story, and one of them is just comedic gold. And as I watched the film, I realized I’d seen an iteration of this before, though with more blood, violence, and language… It’s totally an 80s version of From Dusk ‘Til Dawn, another vampire film I love.

I wonder if I’d seen this one first if I would like this one more than Dusk. That being said, it’s not great, but it’s definitely fun. And had I watched this one as a teenager, when I was flirting with getting into horror, I may have really dug it. As it is, it’s just a fun, somewhat forgotten 80s vamp film.