To Sleep With A Vampire

DANCE OF THE DAMNED (1989) merits a place in history as one of the few vampire-stripper-exploitation films every honored with a screening at New York's Museum of Modern Art. Critics hailed this moody oddity from Roger Corman's production group, a two-character piece about a lonely urban bloodsucker who seizes a suicidal LA go-go dancer as his nightly victim and tries to win her friendship before taking her life. TO SLEEP WITH A VAMPIRE, a direct-to-video remake, is vastly inferior.

Thirsty anti-hero Jacob (Scott Valentine, probably the least feral actor ever fitted for plastic fangs) is squeamish about killing, even though he's been at it for centuries. At a s...