The Horrible Sexy Vampire

Moviecut—The Horrible Sexy Vampire

THE HORRIBLE SEXY VAMPIRE (1971, original title El vampiro de la autopista, aka VAMPIRE OF THE HIGHWAY) is one of the rarer vampire films out there, a Spanish movie shot in Stuttgart, Germany. The story is of a young guy moving into his great-grandfather's castle only to find a series of murders plaguing the locality and something stirring in the castle's cellars. Is his grandfather really dead? It's fair to say that this isn't one of the best of its type, lacking the deliciously spooky atmosphere of the Italian gothics. It's slow and plodding in places and the dialogue can really drag. The Henry Cavill-lookalike lead is okay but the women are served abominably by the script, which just calls on them to strip before being killed. And this vampire isn't a neck-biter, strangely enough, preferring to stab or strangle his victims. While it has a nice setting and some interesting moments, but this isn't a great film.

There are some strange murders happening in the village with a strange bite mark, although not your typical vampire mark. The doctor suggests to the police commissioner it is a vampire and hands him a paperback copy of Bram Stoker's "Dracula." He suspects the count who died in 1886. For some reason the police commissioner is unsure. A young man comes to town as an heir of the castle. The title is misleading. People got killed, but it wasn't that horrible. The only vampire was a male, and he wasn't that sexy. The victims tended to be topless females. He killed mostly through strangulation, not exactly vampire-ish. Sometimes he was invisible and sometimes not. Unlike the old Romulan cloaking device he can attack while invisible making the scenes a bit comical. Sex and nudity (4-5 girls: Susan Carvazal, Patricia Loran, Ada Tauler, Mary Trovar)

El vampiro de la autopista has Jess Franco favorite Wal Davis playing both a ghostly baron and that baron's grandson, so in effect both victimizer and victim. It's a Spanish film made in snowy Germany and it embraces its Eurohorror vibes by having nudity - and yes, too much talking - every few minutes. There are so many rules when it comes to inheriting the home of the basement and all of them start with don't and yes, one of them is don't go in the basement. There's also a vampire who doesn't bite necks but just gently strangles women, often after they've taken a bath. I mean, if you have a bathing * - I wonder about you sometimees dear reader - this would be the movie for you to savor. Director and writer José Luis Madrid also directed and wrote Seven Murders for Scotland Yard; this film has an amazing title, great artwork and impeccable scenery. I wish it had more, but sometimes, we must meditate on what we get and just savor pale Spanish vampires and their murder-filled business.

The "Horrible Sexy Vampire" is not sexy and not a vampire in the traditional sense. OK, I guess he is kind of handsome for an albino Pole, but he doesn't drink blood; he strangles people to death. There is not one drop of blood drank, or spilled, in this movie. Wtf kind of vampire movie is that? The original Spanish title "El Vampiro de la Autopista" translates to "The Vampire of the Highway" which makes no more sense. A better name for the movie might be "The Murderous Phantom" or "The Perverse Undead". The "Sexy" part of the title probably refers to the number of attractive women who who their breasts in the movie, particularly red heads. The fiend really has a thing for red heads. There are a couple more unusual things about this movie: the fiend kills many police detectives, and he has the power of invisibility. The movie is just police detectives getting strangled, half * women getting strangled, and atmospheric scenes with Count Oblinski getting black-out-drunk alone in his ancestral mansion. I won't say its a horrible movie, but its a blood-free movie with "Vampire" in the title and its slow in parts. It strikes me as the kind of movie people were meant to make-out too.

Wal Davis and Ada Tauler have appeared in several Jesus Franco films, many of the same ones. It causes one to suspect that the director, José Luis Madrid, may just be another name that Franco uses. This is not a Franco film. There is no blood as the vampire chokes his victims. Even though it is not Franco, there is no shortage of big naturals, as the vampire only attacks when the women are undressed. It is also unusual in the fact that he chokes, rather than the usual biting on the neck. You don't have to be a vampire completeist to enjoy the film. Just enjoy the victims, some of whom do not appear in any other film.

This Spanish early Seventies movie is really boring in his depiction of several murders made by a really strange vampire (for most of the movie he is invisible and he doesn't bite the neck or other bodily parts of his victims - both male and female - but he strangles them, uh?), a German baron presumed dead in 1896. It comes to his debauched blond heir to kill him and permit him to rest in peace. Lot of assorted female nudities, almost always unrelated to sexual acts - the ladies are killed or assaulted during their baths - but very mitigated for today standards - but probably I've seen an edited version, because it was on Satellite TV -, so in the end the movie is totally dull, with a boring plot, bad acting, bad effects, no blood at all - and this is really strange for a so called vampire movie.

This was a decent and different vampire film. Not great, but entertaining. I must have missed something in the translation. I did not understand how the vampire became. And maybe they should have thrown in a few other scenes outside the house. Other than that, I thought the script was intelligent. There was a lot of information in the dialogue and actions of the characters. The actors did a fine job. At the end the girlfriend didn't question the heir. She did not see the vampire but went along with it. So, there are holes in the script. But given the production with the acting, dialogue, cinematography, editing, music, this film definitely builds atmosphere. Rating is a B, or 7 stars. 10 stars given for loser reviews

As cheesy as it can get. Really, this is terrible but is a must have for so many horror buffs. The only way to see this Spanish horror is on VHS. It never had a proper release and is only available by DVD-R sellers or on 'Excellent' VHS, a Dutch label. And even then it goes sometimes over 100 dollars. I have found it in excellent (no pun intended) state on a flea market for almost nothing. The acting is terrible and even the script sucks (again no pun intended). The vampire catches his victims not by his fangs but he strangle them. But it's a must see for the effects. The vampire do attack invisible. So you can guess how the victims move without seeing the vampire, really cheesy. There's also no blood to see just only when the stake is put into the hart of the vampire and even that is done by editing. But why it's watchable is the fact that all girls strip * before they are killed. A boring flick with gratuitous nudity. Gore 0/5 Nudity 2/5 Effects 0/5 Story 1/5 Comedy 0/5

Count Oblensky (Waldemar Wohlfahrt), heir to the Winninger estate, moves into his ancestral castle despite a spate of unsolved murders in the vicinity; there, he discovers the long dead Baron Winninger, a vampire with the power of invisibility and a longing to be staked, who is cursed to rise from his tomb to kill. Also unperturbed by the rising number of corpses is Oblensky's tasty fiancé Susan, who pays her boyfriend a visit and finds herself stalked by the undead baron. The plot for The Horrible Sexy Vampire is decidedly mediocre and leads to quite a few stretches of tedium wherein a police inspector investigates the murders and Oblensky explores his castle. Thankfully, the film's bloodsucking baron has a proclivity for sexy female victims, attacking only after they have removed some or all of their clothes, meaning that the dreary scenes of police procedure and Oblensky's investigation of his new home are regularly punctuated by far more entertaining moments in which naked hotties are offed by the kill-crazy count (who seems to forget that he's a vampire, throttling his victims rather than making use of his fangs).