This, the bloodiest of the red herrings, can take on logical slight-of-hand trickery or almost hilariously obviously misleading clues. While the film can be dramatic, sexy and occasionally inventive, Embrace of the Vampire is also almost “cute” as it attempts to confuse the audience as to who the title vampire offering the title embrace might be. However, as the prologue implies (along with the film’s title) there is also a vampire out there just waiting to embrace Charlotte.Ĭharlotte experiences a literal bloodbath after fencing class. Although she knows little outside of fencing and her barista work when she arrives at her new school, she’s soon faced with the temptation of alcohol and sex, much like the temptations we all face in any good college. So similar are these films that it’s easy to imagine director Carl Besai sitting down with writers Andrew Erin and Sheldon Roper and saying “Hey, doesn’t this surprise lesbian love scene remind you guys of Black Swan? Can we watch that instead?” Clearly they did.Įmbrace of the Vampire is the tale of Charlotte Hawthorn (Sharon Hinnendael), a virginal Catholic School girl in her first foray into college life. Truth be told, Embrace of the Vampire is essentially the same story as Black Swan, but with vampires and fencing foils instead of ballerinas and tutus. In spite of this clear connection with its namesake predecessor, Embrace of the Vampire actually more closely resembles a different film: 2010’s ballet thriller Black Swan. Embrace of the Vampire is a 2013 direct-to-video film that purports, quite obviously, to be a remake of the 1995 erotic horror film of the same name, which was memorable for the eye-popping love scene between the once-chaste sitcom darling Alyssa Milano with The Golden Child‘s vixeny Charlotte Lewis.
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