Razor Blade Smile

Plot synopsis:
Lilith Silver [Eileen Daly] was made a vampire in the 19th century when she attempted to
stop a duel between a human and the vampire Sethane Blake Christopher Adamson]. Sethane shot
and killed the human, Lilith shot Sethane, Lilith was shot, and Sethane
rewarded her by making her a vampire. Lilith's first meal as a vampire was
on the human who shot her.Nowadays, Lilith dons her black, skintight, leather jumpsuit, leaves
her breasts a-heaving, paints her lips blood red, and hires herself out as
an assassin working for a man she calls Platinum [Kevin Howarth]. She is known as the
Angel of Death, and her current hit list revolves around a select cadre of
wealthy and influential people who call themselves the Illuminati, who
claim ancient roots on par with the Freemasons, and who wear rings that
look like eyes. Each time Lilith kills, she uses the same modus operandi.
She drinks their blood and then mangles their necks to obscure the bites,
and she brings back the telltale ring. For such service, she is paid
£250,000 [about what she needs to keep herself in leather].Unbeknown to Lilith, the head of the Illuminati is none other than
her sire, Sethane Blake, and Sethane is concerned that the cadre is being
systematically knocked off. He suspects that the assassin may be a vampire
because of the testimony made by a witness to Lilith's last killing. She
saw Lilith drinking her husband's blood and then followed Lilith to Club
Transylvania, a nightclub for vampire wannabees. Sethane has set Detective
Inspector Raymond Price [Jonathan Coote], also a member of the Illuminati, to look for and
stop the vampire angel.
Things begin to heat up when Price gets closer and closer to Lilith.
He hires a photographer to photograph the 'vampires' at the Club, a move
that yields Price a photo of Lilith but yields the photographer a bite on
the neck. Price brings in Lilith for questioning, but his superior comes
to the conclusion that Price is looney and releases Lilith. Not to be
daunted, Price sharpens a few stakes and sets up watch outside of Lilith's
house, but all he gets is a stake in his own gut.Meanwhile, Lilith receives a package in her post. It's a videotape of
Platinum asking Lilith to return the last payment of 250,000 pounds
because she was unable to produce the ring from that assassination (it
fell into the bathtub and she didn't want to get her leather gloves wet).
Platinum is bound and bleeding and says that, if Lilith returns the money,
his captors will let him go. If not, he will be killed. Since Lilith has a
sexual thing going with Platinum, she complies.It's a trap. As Lilith cuts the cords that bind Platinum, a dozen
guns appear and fire on her. Wounded and bleeding but still standing, of
course, Lilith gives Platinum a gun and tells him to split. Lilith then
proceeds to take out those who are gunning for her. Unfortunately,
Platinum decided to hang around a bit longer so that he could take out a
few of the gunners. He winds up being confronted by Sethane.
As it happened back in the 19th century, Lilith appears just in time
for the duel between human and vampire. Sethane shoots Platinum. As
Platinum lay dying, Sethane offers Lilith a choice. In her wounded
condition, she needs blood. She can either take what's left of Platinum's
blood or she can give to Platinum what's left of her blood and, thus, save
Platinum's life.Lilith makes the correct choice and, after a swordfight with Sethane
in which she almost succeeds in beheading him, she only nicks his neck.
Sethane looks up amazedly and says, 'You've got good.' The vampire lovers
embrace and congratulate each other on yet another game successfully
played. [Original Synopsis by bj_kuehl.]

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Review:
An irreverant, entertaining and bloody film, full of nifty gunfights, amusing dialogue and FUN.If you're stuck up about low budget films, don't waste your time - you won't get anything out of it.
It is one of the best bad films I've ever seen (I would place it on a level with Commando), and you can even take it to a higher level by interpreting parts of it as a parody on the goth-culture and on traditional serious modern-vampire films.
I pressured a group of very sceptic people to watch this movie with me and within a few minutes, these people, who had just been threatening never to let me decide on a film again, were laughing out loud.
Gorgeous women (I really can't judge as to the men in this film), blood and guts, sex and kink, interesting art direction, plot twists, and the good time enjoyed by the cast transmitted into my living room.I have always thought that Bram Stoker was a shill for the "real" vampires, providing false information about their abilities, weaknesses, and what would be fatal to them.
If/when I write a vampire or werewolf story this film will be an inspiration to me.I love the locations, too, especially the manor for the beginning and ending, and the rock formations for the hostage resolution.
Better off dusting down a copy of Nikita and Near Dark then watching them back to back or if you want a sexy vamp flick which is more style than substance, then The Hunger (1983) should do the trick.However, keep an eye on Jake West.
The story's an entertaining and fresh go at an ever so well known theme (vampires) but what really makes this movie worth watching is a) the fact (?) that the entire cast really seems to have had great fun while doing this and b) that the visuals are just what they ought to be given that the makers didn't have a Hollywood budget.
Amateurish at times, it is convincing enough for what it is - a cheap but fun vampire movie with lots of teeth, bites and blood.
Just as you thought that Britain didn't have a small, low-budget movie industry left outside of student projects, Razorblade Smile makes it's appearance.
She also mentioned that it was meant to be camper than a campervan and poked more than a bit of fun at the too serious vampire movies.And even if one doesn't bear all of that in mind, it's still great :)It also has one of the best plot twists since The Usual Suspects towards the end.Deffo 10 out of 10.
I prefer my vampires to be supernatural and this coven are just fashion winners.Eileen Day is the film's main asset and the camera really shows its appreciation.Plenty of 'intimate scenes' for me to fast forward through..
I know(after reading some reviews on this page)that most horror fans don't appreciate the value of this film and call it trash,but they don't know what they're talking about.OK,I admit that the story is pretty lame and the acting is also rather bad,but "Razor Blade Smile" is sexy,gory and highly entertaining bloodbath.Eileen Daly,who plays a fanged assassin Lilith Silver,shines in her first leading role.Man,she is hot!Oh,and there's also a blood-soaked lesbian scene that would make Jean Rollin proud.The late David Warbeck(Lucio Fulci's "The Beyond"),who sadly died after making this film is another reason to watch "Razor Blade Smile".Plenty of sex,violence,blood and macabre humour,but the ending is kinda' lame.So if you like vampire flicks,you could do a lot worse than this.Recommended!.
However, if you watch this movie all the way through the end you'll see it is as I said a cheap vampire flick with a little humor.
Lilith Silva (of Tran-sylva -nia) makes a much better Irma Vep - I refer to "Les Vampires," directed by Louis Feuillade, 1915-1916 (see the review by Geoffrey O'Brien in the December 17, 1998 issue of "The New York Review of Books") - than "Irma Vep," directed by Olivier Assayas, 1996, a movie with its own charms..
It is glaringly low-budget in places, and there are a few loose ends that are jarringly ineffective in the movie (example: the police detectives are questioning Lilith in New Scotland Yard (whatever happened to Old Scotland Yard, by the way?) and they have this tape recorder running, and the camera keeps doing close-ups of the tape...
Thanks to the low budget, the production values actually lead to lots of groovy atmosphere of the "camp horror" variety, plus the movie boasts characters that are just compellingly 3-dimensional enough to latch on to and really get into.
Well, Razor Blade Smile obviously is a low budget horror/action flick.
Razor Blade Smile is a small production so don't expect mega-special effects by the ILM boys but some nice camera-angles, a few colouring filters in the right place and wildly edited actionscenes.
As a long-time lover of vampire films (especially the old British ones from Hammer), I especially appreciated the fangs and full breasts treatment, along with an atmosphere straight out of Mario Bava-land.
Despite the no-name cast, this is a first-class film, apparently produced on a shoestring budget with lots of tongue-in-cheek humor and campiness, but not enough to detract from the horror.
Lilith Silver, played with an uncanny sense of sympathy for her character by the enigmatic Eileen Daly, is a Vampire who is employed as a contract killer in Modern day London.Lots of opportunity for Gothic tinged sex and violence as we follow Lilith through a simplistic conspiracy theory concerning her "real" employer.
Lets be simple and straight forward about this, I rented this movie because I like vampires and it looked interesting.
Eileen Daly, as Razor Blade Smile's sexy vampire assassin Lilith Silver, sure looks the part: she has long black hair, pale white skin, blood red lips, a butt you could bounce £2 coins off, and cheekbones that are almost as impressive as her cleavage (and boy, is that impressive!).
The problem is, whilst she might look like a Gothboy's wet dream, all clad in figure-hugging rubber and sporting a massive pair of fangs, as an actress, she sucks more than her character does (and Lilith does a LOT of sucking!!!).Still, she's in good company: pretty much everyone else in this low-budget horror romp is dreadful as well.
Writer/director Jake West clearly isn't concerned too much about decent performances, instead hoping that his deliberately cliché-ridden action sequences, iffy script (replete with camp dialogue and intentionally dreadful one-liners), steamy soft-core sex scenes, and use of cheap gore effects will find help find his feature length debut an audience amongst those who love their films trashy and bloody.Unfortunately, the film just isn't as much fun as West wishes it was: the over-theatricality of the performances, the hip MTV-style editing, the poorly choreographed fights, and the lame humour all become very irritating, very quickly; the gore just isn't outrageous enough; and the script meanders aimlessly until eventually revealing a particularly lame twist ending.On a more positive note, West does display flair with some of his visuals: his opening credits sequence is a stylish take on Maurice Binder's famous Bond titles; his use of the camera is often innovative, with brave use of unusual angles and movement, and sparing use of reasonable CGI; and the guy sure knows how to make the most of his striking star, giving viewers plenty of chances to ogle her shapely body.4.5 out of 10, rounded up to 5 for IMDb..
If you like vampire movies, as I do, you'll love it, just don't expect everyone you know to love it too.
I must say that Eileen Daly does a pretty good acting job as Lilith Silver, the sexy bounty hunter/vampire.
But then again, "Razor Blade Smile" is a low-budget flick, so it fits the movie.
It's not a great film or even a particularly good horror flick but it made me smile now and again and had the lovely Eileen, mostly in but now and again partly out of her stunning costumes.
Razor Blade Smile is another attempt to do the same; and while there are certainly a lot of things wrong with it, I actually found myself liking the film more and more as it went along and director Jake West has to be credited with a really good attempt at doing what the earlier films attempted.
The action scenes are fast and entertaining and more than do their job, but the main draw of this film is the way that the screenplay handles the vampire legend.
The film also boils down to a very good twist at the end, which makes more sense the more you think about it.
Fortunately it has a good story,and Elieen Daly looks very sexy, the montage is good and it has some nice shots.It is different to see England make this kind of movie, which are normally made in the USA, so it looks different to usual modern vampire movies.I have not seen any other film from Jake West but I will be interested to see what happen when he has more money.I gave this 6/10 and think it is a good movie for if you like sexy vampires and can see passed the limits of the money..
after watching another of Jake wests entertaining movies i had been considering this film for a while.
cons = a big two fingers up to the classic tried and tested vampire genre, a little to goth is good with all the leather and PVC and some unnecessary sex scenes.But watch it especially on a Friday night with a few brews don't take it seriously and take it for what it is.If the sequel is in the pipeline lets hope it grows up a little.
I'd give it about 0.5/10 and that's just in recognition of someone being bold enough to release such a bad movie.RBS has the worst acting, plot, script, effects, fight scenes, music etc...
How anyone can say the script is anything other than appalling amazes me.I also can't understand why a film would want to try to destroy all the interesting parts of vampire legend.
If that's what you want, and you wear a cloak, file your teeth to points and think that the name Lilith Silver is cool, you'll see a fine film.If, like most people, an assassin dressed in gleaming, creaking rubber with HUGE cleavage, thick makeup and bad fangs makes you laugh, then this is one of the best comedies you'll see.
Ridiculous acting, dialogue and plotting help to make this a better spoof than Dracula, Dead and Loving It could be...It tries to be cool and goth, and all it succeeds in doing is making each scene hilarious.
If you can get over the cheapness of the movie there is a fantastic plot underneath which is generally well acted ( with the exception of the wooden security guards and the vampires who cannot speak properly with their fangs in) and a fantastic twist in the tail.
My main problem with this film applies to any vampire movie.
Writer/Director Jake West has penned an intelligent piece of cult cinema here and although some of the lines fall flat, much of the script really does illuminate a new angle on the vampire world.
This factor, coupled probably the twistiest twist of a twisted finale ever put on the screen should be enough to put a canine revealing smile on a lot of you fellow vampiric folks out there.Where the film fails is forgivably in its cast and its special effects.
Probably the best 'lesbian vampire assassin in fetish gear' movie filmed in London ever made.
Instead I will make a recommendation for all you Euro-horror fans: If you want to see an enjoyable low-budget Vampire flick, check out Nattens engel (1998).
It has everything Razor Blade Smile lacks: acting, nice locations, terrific score, and less hissing vampires....
A very worthy debut from Jake West: it combines Bond- movie action with Hammer-horror cheesiness to great effect.
I would have to say that it was pretty interesting for a gothic vampire movie which was set in a modern time.
It was worth watching if you are interested in B vampire movies.
Probably the best "indie" Horror movie that Britain has produced in the last 20 years.Granted some of the special effects were a bit basic,but no more so than a Jean Rolin or even a Hammer offering.Eileen Daly and Christopher Adamson are totally the right people for the lead roles and completely believable.Daly's character Lilith Silver does however have a forced or laboured Fanella Fielding voice that seems a little wrong,however it is more appropriate to a 19th century Lady than Miss Daly's normal Chelsea girl sound (that's a complete Air Head for the Yanks).However without a doubt she plays one of the best Vampires there has ever been.Next to Christopher Adamson he really puts the Teeth in vampire.The film starts off in the 19th century being narrated by Lilith who explains we know f**k all about vampires.The film then through an excellent story (more credit to Jake West) charts her life into modern times,no pausing along the way for either war or historic events.Just a straight blend (after her first kill) into the modern age and her hit-woman and night clubbing "goth" life style.Giving an insight into what a vampire really is.Whilst out witting the law.
What you do get is a brilliant,well written story with a new slant on the vampire life that Anne Rice would have been proud to have penned.Complete with a nice little twist ending.Making it unlike anything you'll have seen before..
David Warbeck has a brief role as a doctor (dubbed "The Horror-Movie Man"!) who conducts the autopsy on one of the vampire's victims; the film seems to have taken quite a long time to shoot as Warbeck died in 1997!
Sure, there IS a cheese factor (let's face it- is there such thing as a vampyre movie that doesn't have a bit of one?) and you can definitely see how fake the fangs are, but I thought this film was great!
I really loved razor blade smile it is one of my favourite art-house movies it was played really well in fact I actually believe if vampires existed they indeed would become an assassin I really enjoy art-house and vampire movies so this was in my taste thank you for making such an excellent movie lilithsilver was my favourite character in this movie and I think she played the part excellently the whole plot was designed without flaw I would love to know how exactly how the writer came up with such a genius story there will never be a vampire movie quite as believable and influential there was not a thing I dident believe about this movie and I would recommend this movie for any true vampire lovers so thank you again for making such a great movie.sincerely yours Levi.
A great British vampire flick, full of kinky scenes, fun one-liners, a protagonist you wish to die for (a splendid Ellen Dayly), a good enough story, with a little convoluted end.
There are several key scenes in this movie that are a direct homage to several other classics, from Vampire Lovers to First Blood (yes, Lilith preparation for the battle is very similar to Rambo dressing up for fighting in First Blood II).
It might have been a little confusing, and there was a surprise ending, but the story was there.This was one of the best non-traditional vampire films I've seen since "Near Dark".
Razor Blade Smile was first and foremost a vampire film, and it's action scenes played a secondary role.
Other reviews are unkind to this movie, written by people who are expecting way too much...This movie was shot on a pretty low budget, on high quality video, has loads of imagination, wicked shoot outs, clever ideas, lurid sex scenes, the beautiful Eileen Daly and one of the last ever performances by David Warbeck who was a nice guy from what I hear.Look at this as a movie a mate of yours has shot instead of a Hollywood film, and you can't fail to have anything other than immense respect for it.
The acting is very good and the movie doesn't drag along.Lillth does look great in leather.
Terrible overacting paired with regular bad acting makes this movie a pain to watch.
Under no circumstances should you be mislead into seeing this film as a ligitimate horror/vampire or even "British" movie.
I cannot believe that the Odeon cinema in Camden are screening this movie it is a complete embarrassment to British film-making - it makes the "Carry-ons" look big budget and intellectual..
The star is trying to tell the audience about vampires, but she should have told this to the writers, director and producer of this film (and everyone else who had anything to do with this movie).
Its actually quite a good film.Okay so it looks like it was shot on camcorder for £5.58.
I love this movie and it is great that I once knew f..a about vampires.
There are plenty of other interesting vampire movies out there, so please do not give the people who made this any more money so they can keep making this kind of cheap garbage..
It also shows a bundle of enthusiasm, a great-looking cast and a half decent script can give oodles more entertainment than your average blockbuster.Rather than just re-review the film, I'd rather just wave the flag for British low-budget autors like West and Alex Chandon who are making this stuff happen, budget or not.
British cinema is infested with an 'in crowd', which is why dire slop like Long Time Dead gets shot on film and Razorblade smile doesn't.This movie was made half a decade ago for £20k.
I love vampire movies, even bad cheesy ones.
A really fun and inspired low-budget British vampire horror treat.