David Warbeck, Eileen Daly, Grahame Wood

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... )fragile hinges have little to fear from this vampire-action-sexploitation hybrid. Director-writer-editor Jake West desperately tricks up his one-man opus in tech glam: sexpot Lilith Silver evolves from 19th-century vampire victim to modern-day hitwoman in black-and-white, color, freeze-frame, fast and slow motion, cartoon FX, overblown Freudian dreams.

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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R, 101 min.

Directed by: Jake West

Release Date: October 16, 1998

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DVD Release Date: September 14, 1999

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  • 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.
  • 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 d...( read more)efinate 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.
  • 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.Ad...( read more)d 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.
  • June 27, 2007
    Really cheap looking vampire film, i think thats why it works!
  • November 9, 2008
    A very dark, cult vampyre film. Got it on vcd many years ago. esp loved the scene in which the vamp opens her coffin to reveal stacks of weapon nicely stacked within.
  • October 22, 2008
    To me this is the best vampire flick made. Absolutely captured the Vampire the way I think they should be.
  • 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.
  • December 3, 2007
    i loved this movie so much
  • November 16, 2007
    a little sexual at some points but it was gruesome but enjoyable
  • November 1, 2007
    Not interested. I usually avoid horror movies.

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