I Married a Vampire

My review was written in March 1988 after watching the movie on Prism video cassette.

"I Married a Vampir" is another student-type film released by the Troma Team, or at least sent to the marketplace. Originally a 16mm effort shot in Boston by Jay Raskin five years ago, pic got a blowup and token theatrical release in 1986 ahead of home video status.

Title is somewhat misleading, as pic is a throwback to the '60s inide feature movement, a rites-of-passage tale about young Viola (Rachel Golden) who goes to the big city (Boston) to make it on her own. Her boring and trite tribulations are delineated in detail: cheated by a real estate agent, swindled by a lawyer and ripped off by a religious cult. She's even raped (off-screen) by a businessman who then gets her a job working as a washerwoman.

Upshot is that her best friend introduces her to her brother Robespierre (dedpan Brendan Hickey) who is a 100-year-old-plus vampire. He helps her get revenge on all her tormentors and they marry, celebrating by attendng a screening of Carl Th. Dreyer's "Vampyr".

Bookending cover sotry has Viola telling her just-arrived parents the dreary tale and then taking them home to meet hubby -cue the off-camera screams.

Pic has a vanity production look with acting to match, though Viola's kleptomaniac friend Portia is a promising turn by actress Temple Aaron.