Synopsis
The modern-day story focuses on two beautiful young vampires who are living the good nightlife in New York until love enters the picture and each has to make a choice that will jeopardize their immortality.
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Cast
- Alicia SilverstoneGoody
- Krysten RitterStacy
- Sigourney WeaverCisserus
- Richard LewisDanny
- Wallace ShawnDr. Van Helsing
- Malcolm McDowellVlad
- Zak OrthRenfield
- Marilu HennerAngela
- Kristen JohnstonMrs. Van Helsing
- Meredith Scott LynnRita
Recommendations
- 88
Slant Magazine
A sense of anachronism is what provides the film with its melancholy heart. - 83
IndieWire
A surprisingly enjoyable tongue-in-cheek New York comedy from "Clueless" director Amy Heckerling, Vamps teeters on the brink of not quite working and yet still routinely lands its laughs. - 70
Variety
Heckerling always manages to get her finger firmly on the pulse of the contemporary moment, and while her club-hopping heroines may be undead, they serve as adorable metaphors for what the filmmaker sees as a zombified moment in cultural history. - 67
The A.V. Club
Heckerling also struggles woefully with special effects, but even then, she's capable of pulling off a beautiful sequence where Silverstone remembers a specific city block as it's evolved through the ages. Her shambling little comedy never finds a consistent groove, but it's eager to please, and has the ancient gags to do it. - 60
Los Angeles Times
Make no mistake, Vamps is mostly a misfire, but Heckerling still shows enough flashes of wit and wisdom that she remains hard to entirely dismiss. Don't bury that coffin just yet. - 60
The Hollywood Reporter
Charming at times but surprisingly cheap-feeling given the cast Heckerling has assembled. - 50
Village Voice
Reteaming with Silverstone, the alpha matchmaker of "Clueless," for Vamps, Heckerling uses the actress as the mouthpiece for her complaints about how dumb everyone is today. The writer-director's nostalgia feeds the laziest type of cultural critique: never piercing, just grumpy. - 40
Time Out
Vamps is commendable, even moving, as a raw-nerve confession of anachronism - but it's also what keeps this strained satire from drawing any real blood.
