My brother was bugging me for days to rent and watch this film. I was as hesitant to watch it as I'm sure most of you are by the title, but I'm glad I did. It was a highly enjoyable, stylized britcom filled with cheeky campy horror humour. It's not highbrow humour, but at the same time, it's not trashy lowbrow humour, if anything it's high end lowbrow humour.
Carmilla is a vampire Queen who lived 100s of years ago, and who happened to be a lesbian. She turned the women of Cragwich into lesbian vampires as well, but when Baron Wolfgang MacLaren vanquished her, she cursed the locals swearing that every woman would turn into a lesbian vampire on the eighteenth birthday. Only the last descendant of MacLaren could revive Carmilla, allowing her to be killed and ending the curse. The last descendant happens to be one of out two protagonists who end up in Cragwich in an attempt to relax. Upon arrival they meet up with a group of four female folklore students who are there to study the myth of Carmilla. The six of them, along with the village's vicar, must team up to defeat Carmilla.
I was quite surprised within the first few minutes of the film. It did not appear to be a low budget film, with good use of costume, sets, lighting and especially camera work. The stylized nature of the film that felt along the lines of Zombieland and Shaun of the Dead was evident in the first scene and continued throughout. The plot is basic, the acting is not particularly note worthy, but it was a fun movie with enough witty dialogue and funny moments to make me laugh.
The title is rather self explanatory: it's a movie about lesbian vampires and their killers. If you think that is something that would appeal to you, you'll probably enjoy it. If you think it's something you'd hate, you probably will.
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