Embrace the Darkness II (2002)

the audience applauded

Sadly Over-hyped

One of my all time favorites.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

I can't understand why some people dislike this one. There's plenty of hot sex, beautiful women, not so bad plot, striking visuals (all about the club sequences), and more.Catalina Larranaga looks at her best. Really, she hasn't looked sexier. She has at least 4 kinky sex scenes where she demonstrates her excellent abilities in bed (and standing up!).Renee Rea looks very cute and sexy at the same time. The girl has intense sex sequences.Jezebelle Bond also shows why she's a favorite in the genre.You can't ask for more. There are plenty of things to enjoy from this one.

The second in the Embrace the Darkness trilogy sees Jennifer now played by soft core stalwart Renee Rea, but unfortunately the story is very similar to the first film with a similar vampire couple - good guy but nasty girl. We do however get a proper vampire hunter called Van Helsing so that is a difference.Jennifer (Renee Rea) is slowly coming to terms with her life as one of the undead. She moves into an apartment close to a night club which is owned by Jack (Tristan Coeur D'Alene) and Lizzie (Catalina Larranaga). Jack and Lizzie recognise Jennifer as being new to the vampire existence and so take her under their wing to teach her the ways of the vampire and to hone her power and skills. As in the first film, there is an old flame, Peter (Sean Vossler) who is looking for Jennifer but when his attempts to contact her fail, he teams up with vampire hunter Van Helsing (John Maryland). Meanwhile, Jack has taken a shine to Jennifer, much to the chagrin of Lizzie, who plots her revenge.It is a pity that the writers could not have used a bit more imagination when scripting this story - it is too much like the original. On that score it is marked down but there is more sex and nudity so for that it is marked up. The acting is on a par for this type of film and the women look good with a commendation for Diana Espen for her scenes. 5 stars.

Jennifer (now actress Renee Rea as opposed to Madison Clark of the first one) is now a vampire and moves to LA to be at Gaylen place, the Vamp who turned her. Gaylen being an apropo name for how vampires have been defanged since the vastly overrated Anne Rice. She of course meets other trendy vamps and they all chill at a nightclub. Because we all know vamps and nightclubs go together like Rip Taylor and confetti. Meanwhile the horrible techno-driven theme song plays numerous times. This is a pretty lame soft-core movie, and as a vampire film it sucks, so par for the course there. The dialog seems to be made by those dreary goth clowns that you avoided like the plaque in high school.Eye Candy: Jezebelle Bond, Renee Rea, April Flowers, Catalina Larranaga, and Katie Lohmann show various amounts of skin My Grade: D-Where I saw it: Showtime Beyond

I liked this movie. I thought it was above average for a soft porn. The music was pretty good. The acting really wasn't that bad. And the story was descent. The sex scenes were okay. It's not a bad movie if you're looking for soft porn with more of a story to it. I liked the lead actress and how her character went from innocent to tough. The plot is about a girl who gets turned into a vampire, but the vamp who turns her disappears and she's left on her own. She meets up with more vampires at a Goth club and they teach her a few things. Sure it could have been better, but for what it is, it's not that bad. And it's a vampire story with sex, so you really can't go too wrong there.