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Plot: The real truth about their mysterious adversary--a vampire--would "rip your mind's fragile hinges," the death's-head CEO of a secret society (Christopher Adamson) warns a human henchman. Your mind's ...( read more read more... )

There are moments: in the James Bond-style credit sequence, Lilith's fanged mouth yawns wide, disgorging a veritable blizzard of razor blades. And in the black-and-white prelude, West's camera looks down on his voluptuous vampire, sprawled on a bed, the only color the scarlet drenching her dress, bloodying her mouth. But "artsy" razzle-dazzle can't distract from Razor Blade Smile's overall failure to arouse horror, lust, humor, or any other redeeming response. First-timer Eileen Daley makes Lilith so soignee and hip it hurts; her femme fatale's couture runs to multizippered, skintight black leather, shades, fur hats; the picture's completed by ebony mane, cheekbones to die for, and an extraordinarily mobile mouth with alarming overbite. Lilith kills time at a vampire/goth bar, shagging lesbian or stud, but what she really lives for are century-long power games played with the love of her life--er, death. This cynical horror flick punctures the very conventions that are the genre's lifeblood: encouraging egregious mugging and milking portentousness from every remark, Smile reduces the primal sex-death themes of authentic vampire fiction to kiss kiss/bang bang/bite bite. --Kathleen Murphy

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  • 3.0 Stars
    MCT:
    August 7, 2008
    One of those films that's so bad, it's good. The acting is quite bad and the plot is barely worth mentioning, yet it still has a certain charm that many horror lovers will pick up on.
  • 3.0 Stars
    MCT:
    March 10, 2008
    Eileen Daly plays Lilith - a sexy, gun-toting vampire hitwoman clad in a tight-fitting black pvc catsuit. Some of the acting is awful at times but the action moves along at a fair old pace.
  • 4.0 Stars
    MCT:
    December 11, 2007
    A very good British vampire film.It gives the vampire myth a modern twist with a good story.The acting isn't exactly great with the main "villain" standing out with a very good performance but the strength of the story and Jake Wests directing keep the film moving along nicely.Add in a few gory moments and you've got a decent horror.Not all the acting was great and there was some dodgy dialogue here and there but this still gets 4 stars for a strong story,great anti-hero,a great villain and some good direction from Jake West,who later went on to do Evil Aliens.If you like vampires,this is worth checking out.
  • 1.5 Stars
    MCT:
    October 25, 2007
    Man alive I really wanted to like this more than I did! The stylish visuals are kind of fun, but they don't make up for the story that's too quirky for its own good, although there are a few amusing moments.

    A rental at best, check out the director's Evil Aliens film instead.
  • 3.0 Stars
    MCT:
    July 17, 2007
    Badly acted, but Eileen Daily is sexy as hell and the concept is okay. One of the few vampire movies I ever enjoyed; "Underworld" clearly ripped it off.
  • 0.5 Stars
    MCT:
    June 25, 2007
    Watch this and learn how, in spite of a low budget, a good story and a sexy vampiress can impress the hell out of anyone! Except me, that is.
  • 4.5 Stars
    MCT:
    May 9, 2007
    i own this movie it the best vampire movie ever
    if i was you if you really like gore buy it this rare you would have special order it
  • 3.0 Stars
    MCT:
    March 24, 2007
    Rented it, watched it, my usually vampiremovie-loving boyfriend fell asleep twenty minutes into it. But after we returned it I found myself actually wanting to see it again. When I returned to the video store I found they had thrown it out with other old VHS's to make room for new DVD's...
  • No rating.
    MCT:
    January 6, 2007
    An absolutely abysmal film, saved by nothing whatsoever. The acting is as wooden as the stakes, the plot is flimsier than the costumes and it looks like a student film made by stoner dropouts for an excuse to see some lady-flesh. Avoid like Holy Water, Van Helsing and Jehovah's Witness!
  • 2.0 Stars
    MCT:
    November 16, 2006
    I honestly can't remember much of this! It's perhaps telling that our protagonist is played by a porn star that the end result will be a campy, straight-to-video hokum-fest. Sadly, even this is difficult to fathom, as most of the (bad) acting is played straight, like this has a definate message behind it all! Hence some terribly dribbly dialogue that John Waters would frown on, and a general amateurishness that would test anyone's ability to watch it all. Another issue is how Daly's femme fatale is presented, more or less forcing you to find her attractive, and therefore justified in all her revengey-bloodletting. If you like tits and blood, this may satisfy, but I doubt it.
  • 3.0 Stars
    MCT:
    September 24, 2006
    Low-fi but british it's not bad far from great but pretty good however west's more recent movie EVIL ALIENS kicks ass
  • 0.5 Stars
    MCT:
    July 15, 2006
    the acting was of a standard not seen since 1970s porn movies, the least wooden acting was from in fact a table
  • 0.5 Stars
    MCT:
    May 29, 2006
    So bad, this film is almost laughable, almost. This is the most dire vampire flick I have watched. The actors and actresses take themselves far to seriously, if they were having a laugh, you could be more forgiving of this film.

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  • Rated: (R)
  • Directed by: Jake West
  • Genres: Art House & International, Cult Movies, Horror
  • Released: October 16, 1998
  • DVD Released: September 14, 1999

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