Scarecrow-88 Star Andreeff stars as a stripper who is infected with vampire blood and is turned into a bloodsucker when John Savage, a member of the undead clan, fails to kill her at the order of their leader. Oddball comedy with a particularly strange vampire brood straight out of a David Lynch movie. Savage, with a lower lip ring and a propensity to quote movie lines, seems to be having fun in his role as an eccentric vampire who doesn't like to suck blood(his peers consider him a joke, nicknaming him a vegetarian!)and becomes Andreeff's only ally(for some reason, his bunch are all inclusive and do not wish to indoctrinate a new member). One bizarre scene has Andreeff barfing out her insides. Andy Ruben features small strip club numbers(the club is of the underground variety where kink and S&M are the preferred acts by their clientèle)sprinkled in throughout. Andreeff, striking even when she's sickly and starving for blood, was previously in another unique vampire movie, DANCE OF THE DAMNED, and seems at home portraying down-on-their-luck women who live in seedy environments, trying to make ends meet however she can, and in CLUB VAMPIRE she is a single mom working in a club to support her son, the money brought in furnishing his private school education(whenever he bothers to attend, that is)and the condo which is their home. Savage bites the head off of a rat, gets his tongue pulled out by his leader, and sorrows for the loss of his humanity after centuries of seeing civilizations crumble and die to disease and plague. Savage and Andreeff share quite a bit of screen time together, due to his inability to kill her, instead opting to save her, placing himself in danger against his peeps. Ruben shoots in a lot of street urban locations, like alleyways and corners, but is consistent in returning to the club(which has a vampire head at the front, the entrance a fanged mouth)time and again to remind us of Andreeff's position in life and the reason she's in her current situation. Regular on Twin Peaks, dwarf Michael Anderson, has a colorful role as a member of the bloodthirsty vampires who enjoy the predatory hunt of human beings. The other two vampires are Marriam Parris and Diana Frank. Some might remember Ross Malinger as Rocky Balboa's son, here portraying Andreeff's kid, a potential feast if she or Savage can not stop Parris from carrying out her plans. Severed heads are a constant, including one sequence where Savage's head reattaches to his neck! Executive produced by Roger Corman through his New Concorde. I'm on my own because I didn't consider this an absolute failure and one of the worst movies ever made--just weird and kooky. It's unfortunate that Andreeff's career never rose out of the B-movie cellar, she always had potential. Since this movie she has sort of "retired" from the business, many would say CLUB VAMPIRE is one of those reasons. I kind of liked it myself.

lthseldy1 This movie is just plain terrible. Poor John Savage had to stoop this low in order to be in another movie. He stars as a rare type of vampire that is to help a lady that looks like a washed out and thrown in the streets hooker that is a dancer at a local strip club. She acidently tastes a drop of blood from another dancer who happens to be one of those rare vampires as they get carried away making out on the floor of the dressing room. Savage is then assigned by a short leader of this rare vampire breed that looks like a cross between 80's punk rock and one of the Olsen twins with purple hair. This movie just gets all to crazy with Savage rapping and dancing with a midget with a tattooed spider on his head, also one of the rare. He quotes the Elephant Man and Jimmy Durante and I just had to laugh. This just gets rediculas. And then the most gross special effects that they could come up with is Corri throwing up her organs and pulling them out of her mouth. And you can tell that that is all to fake. Her son doesn't know what to do with his moms new identity and becomes more of a pest than an object of serenity. I enjoy a good vampire film, believe me I do but I just HATED this one. Even the photography stinks, in and out blurs with the camera switching this way and that trying to make it look like the vampires move to fast for the camera to keep up and then the camera turns all to bright in the scene of Savage chasing the son of Corri around till he blinds himself. Avoid this one!!

lonewolf74 When first read it in Fangora's Video List in 1998 I thought this is a good movie to rent and because of they built it up as a good movie. Boy I was wrong really wrong The first part was sick when the stripper mom turns into a vampire and toss her cookies on the floor. Then on the almost last part of the movie was not right the son of the stripper/vampire was going to become a vampire himself by the female leader vampire and the second female vampire who turns his mom into one. But they stopped at that part and I was p***ed I wanted to see a threesome because in some vampire movies you don't see that between a woman, a man, and a woman. So I keep on watching still mad all the way to the stuipd ending. To the people who want to see this movie please don't save your money for something else.

contronatura As far as vampire films go, this is undeniably weak. But it does have one redeeming quality - John Savage. He seems to be having a good time making this film. Imagine his character from The Thin Red Line as a happy-go-lucky vampire, and that's what you get in this film. Aside from Savage, though, this isn't good. This is a Roger Corman film, so it has lots of the usual T&A and cheesy gore, but even that's not enough to recommend it. Unless you're a John Savage completist.