The Film Chest announced this past week that writer/director
Len Anthony’s Vampires (aka: Abadon) will be available on May 10
in its uncut form (clocking in at 80 minutes).
The film was originally produced by Len Anthony for Studio
Entertainment (he was president and CEO of the company), but there is little
record to indicate that it was actually released on VHS at the time (circa
1986). Instead, the film was “trimmed”
down and tacked onto Fright House, which was released in
October of 1989 as a direct-to-video VHS release by Studio Entertainment.
The feature length presentation of Vampires stars Night
of the Living Dead’s Duane Jones as Dr. Charles Harmon (a “defrocked
scientist”), with Orly Benyar as Ione, a student at an art school (the Abadon
School) who discovers that the mysterious Madeline Abadon (Jackie James) is up
to no good … and just might be a vampire (or a “life-sucker” at the very
least).
Her fears are well founded.
As it turns out, Madeline’s father used to run an insane asylum on the very
site of the art school and had invented a machine that literally sucked the
life out of his hapless patients.
His evil daughter is actually 75-years old (a younger
version is played by Kit Jones) and has (had) a “special” relationship with a
younger version of Harmon! Gulp! Is the lovely Ione doomed to be drained of
that which makes her young and sexy, or does Madeline have something else even
more sinister in mind?
You’ll have to wait until May 10 and Film Chest’s
feature-length presentation of Vampires to find the answer to that
question … and more!
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