CARMILLA
Just 60 minutes, but it's still way too long
It's halfway through the film before people figure out where those two holes in somebody's neck came from. Good thing it's only an hour long.
Ione Skye (and her freaky-ass Butthead-like mouth) stars as Marie, the lonely daughter of a plantation owner (Roy Doltrice, who I swear did the Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 intro) before the Civil War (I'd assumed it was in the South, but the South is repeatedly referred to as if it were elsewhere). Marie and her dad rescue a woman (the less foxy of the Tilly girls, Meg) from a car wreck - I mean, carriage wreck - and soon enough some kid shows up with holes in his neck and the only question left is what's Tilly doing out in the sun when the film firmly establishes that yes, vampires are harmed by sunlight?
Roddy McDowell also pops in (with a hilariously bad Southern accent) as the only guy willing to give the "vampire theory" a shot. He also has the film's best line: "It is not a witchhunt. They're not witches."
Pretty gruesome for a PG flick - one guy gets a wooden stake rammed up through his jaw and out the top of his head. There's also a lot of lesbian sexuality hinted at but not, alas, realized.
Just kinda bland and dull overall. A mercifully short hour.