It's hard to dislike a movie that strives so hard to offend the vampire fan base.

It is to be recommended only if you can see it at the New Amsterdam on 42d Street, where audiences loudly, freely and obscenely associate with the action on the screen.

A highly intelligent, deftly poetic reimagining of the vampire myth, with the theme of fatal sexuality transferred to a female character.

Rothman’s film is exactly what you would want from a psychedelic sexploitation film set in the middle of the Southern California desert.