200 years ago, Lilith Silver (Eileen Daly) was made a vampire by Sethane Blake
(Christopher Adamson), the very man who shot her lover (Glenn Wrage) in a duel.
Now: Lilith spends her time hanging around in goth clubs, but has to realize
the goths are a pretty unfunny bunch. To escape boredom she has also taken up a
job as assassin, a job she's perfectly qualified for since as a vampire she's
pretty much immortal and pretty bloodthirsty, and bullets don't really harm her
(though she has to drink as much blood as she has lost in order to survive, of
which - when killing's your game - there's aways plenty arond, isn't there ?).
Her latest sereis of hits though might prove too big a bite for her to
swallow, as she is hired to take out a series of men all members of a Free
Mason society, possibly the Illuminati - & since according to legend the
Illuminati have their members everywhere, they soon put one of their ranks,
bumbling police detective Price (Jonathan Coote) on her trail - incidently he
is to be Lilith's next hit.
Price though has figured out pretty much everything about Lilith - even the
fact that she is a vampire - but when he arrests her & takes her to the
precinct, he proves to be so much caught up in his strange (well not so strange
in fact) ideas about her being a vampire, that even his superior is surprised
about the absurdities of his claims & lets Lilith go himself ...
meanwhile Platinum (Kevin Howarth), Lilith's business partner/boss/lover is
kidnapped by theuir contractors because Lilith failed to bring them the fFree
Masons' ring from her last hit, & now they demand the money back, else
Platinum gets it.
Showing her sentimental side, Lilith walks to the rendez vous point to hand
over the money & save Patinum even though she knows it's a trap ... & a
wild shoot-out ensues, which even gets her riddled by bullets ... but she
learns who her contractor is: Sethane Blake, the mabn who had made her a
vampire - & who incidently is the head of the Illuminati himself. Seeing
her riddled by bullets, he gives her a choice, to either die, or to drink the
blood of her (badly wounded) partner/lover Platinum, but kill him in the
process ... she chooses the latter.
Then it's payback time, as Lilith boldly enters the Illuminati's estate
& takes on (& out) Sethane's vampiric guards before eventually facing
Sethane himself ... & detective Price, who, upon realizing he has blindly
served a vampire, takes his own life.
Lilith's & Sethane's last fight is fought with swords, & eventually,
Lilith comes out winner & prepares to behead Sethane (in this movie the
only way to kill a vampire) ... but she stops her blade the very last second,
& the 2 of them lovingly embrace ... as it was all just an elaborate game
to keep the 2 of them amused during the decades & centuries, with all
humans involved being just disposable pawn ...
David Warbeck, in his last role, has a funny cameo as a coroner called
horror-movie-man.
A good natured, funny, hyperkinetic & stylish vampire action movie that
has one big advantage over most other films of this sub-sub-genre - it doesn't
take itself seriously for even one single second (opposed to, let's say Underworld,
Blade or the dull Interview with a Vampire), but still manages to
bring its story across with the right amount of style, bloodetting, atmosphere,
action & sex ... & Eileen Daly looks just damn sexy all dressed up in
shiney leahter, & always know when & how to strike a pose.
Allegedly, the movie was made for a mere 25.000 British Pounds ... but
the money has been extremely well spent.
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