- Film Review
- Reviewed By Alan Jones
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3 out of 5
Delivering exactly what the title promises, and in highly amusing fashion, director Phil Claydon does for Hammer horror nostalgia what Shaun of the Dead did for zombies with this visually resplendent homage. The simple plot sees sex-crazed, drunken slacker James Corden and jilted loser Mathew Horne hiking through a creepy village cursed with Sapphic bloodsuckers. Also along for the ride are MyAnna Buring (The Descent, Doomsday) as a feisty Swedish student and Paul McGann as a foul-mouthed vicar. The humour is more deadpan than Corden and Horne's wickedly funny TV series Gavin & Stacey. But for all its obvious vulgarity, this is also a cleverly aware spoof of lurid 1970s Hammer glamour; an edgy girls, gags and gunk extravaganza that has all the hallmarks of a post-modern Carry On Screaming.
Plot Summary
Comedy horror starring James Corden and Mathew Horne. Two friends hiking in Norfolk are invited to share a cottage with some female foreign students. But the remote village they are in is under a vampire's curse, and what seemed like the offer of a lifetime turns into a nightmare.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Fletch
- James Corden
- Jimmy Maclaren / Baron Wolfgang Maclaren
- Mathew Horne
- Lotte
- MyAnna Buring
- Eva
- Vera Filatova
- Judy
- Lucy Gaskell
- Heidi
- Tiffany Mulheron
- Trudi
- Ashley Mulheron
- Anke
- Louise Dylan
- Carmilla
- Silvia Colloca
- The Storyteller / Vicar
- Paul McGann
- Rebecca
- Emer Kenny
- Blonde
- Susie Amy
Crew
- Director
- Phil Claydon
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