Vampire Warriors – Report

This Hong Kong movie was released some time in November or late October, I believe. It's mainly a wire-fu Martial Arts "horror" comedy in the tradition of classic Hong Kong horror movies. Actually, it's more of an action than a horror movie.

There are quite a few cute female vampires in the movie, but they really didn't do much aside from some Martial Arts wire-fu fights in which they got their asses kicked by the main villain for the most part. One girl displays a little bit of invulnerability by bashing her head against a lamppost out of boredom a few times leaving a dent in it. I might have missed or forgotten other minor feats.

The heroine has some more fights and does kick a bit of ass in some of them, but it's mostly Martial Arts (she's a real Martial Arts star of some sort, I believe).

The best part is a double throatlift done by a cute evil vampire girl that, unfortunately, is all too short. Also, she gets killed by the villain only a few minutes later. Below, you'll find the scene with rather bad picture quality (it's from a camrip after all). I'll might post some more scenes and with better picture quality once the movie is released on DVD.


Vampire Warriors Throatlift

Ubergirl craziness made in Hong Kong – Part 3

Here comes part 3 of probably around 10 or so.

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Funny Ghost (1989) - Yet another really silly ghost movie, this time about some kind of magic vase. In the later part of the movie a female vampire is set free in a warehouse. She attacks a bunch of people and throws them around: She lifts one guy over her head, rips off another guy's arm and lifts one more over her head and throws him around. Later on the guys fight her off by exposing their underwear to her ... or something like that.

Funny Ghost - Lifts, Fight

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Mr. Vampire III (1987) - The Mr. Vampire series is probably one of the most popular of that era, famous for its dreaded and terrifying hopping vampires. In this part, however, there are no hopping vampires, I believe. Instead we have a female ghost or demon as a villain.


There are about three scenes in the movie that involve some sort ubergirl feats. At the beginning the Taoist monk is attacked by some ghosts, among them a tall female ghost who lifts him by the throat with both hands and tosses him through the air. The rest of the scenes are mostly goofy fighting scenes with the main villainess who breaks open a padlock with one hand, rips apart an iron chain, bends a part of a prison cell and during the final fight scene lifts a boy with one hand and throws a bunch of people around. She also makes a lot of animalistic noises during her attacks and wears a weird eye prop.

Scene 1 - Lift, Throw	Scene 2 - Fight, Steel bend
Scene 3 - Final fight

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My Neighbours Are Phantoms (1990) - Another ghost comedy with lots of cheap jokes. In one scene a female ghost attacks two guys and two women and throws them around a bit. They get help from a good female ghost who gets thrown around a bit as well. The evil ghost then ends up lifting on of the guys over her head with one hand, pinning him to the ceiling. Eventually the good ghost throws some sort of charm at her and kills (or bans) her.

My Neighbours Are Phantoms - Fight, Lift

Wir sind die Nacht - Report

Here's a quick rundown of the strength feats of the German Vampire movie "Wir sind die Nacht". Aside from its ubergirl content I think the movie is okay, better than I expected, considering it's a German genre movie, entertaining but still nothing mindblowing. If you live in Germany you might want to check it out in the cinema. Overall I'd rate it 6 out of 10.

Now to the ubergirl stuff:

Spoilers ahead

• In the opening scene the lead vampiress (Louise) snaps a stewardess's neck; another of the vampires unlocks the exit door of an airplane and then punches it into the night air.
• Louise sneaks up behind a thug, grabs his neck and breaks it with a short squeeze of her hand (it's indicated only by the sound), then she tosses his body aside.
• When a police squad wants to arrest Lena (also a vampire) she fights back and quickly overpowers the three guys that rush at her by punching or throwing them through the air. The scene is pretty rushed, i.e. you don't see that much. Still not bad.
• In a train Louise appears behind a (human) cop and grabs his throat; she seems to be lifting him but it's not really clear. Lena then pushes the cop aside frees him from Louise's grasp.
• During the final scene Lena attacks Louise: They run up the walls, Lena rips some metal bars off the wall and attacks Louise with them; she is thrown through the air several times by the older vampiress, who also catches her fist and breaks her arm etc. Again the scene is filmed in that fast moving music video style which is too bad because you don't get a clear look at what's going on. Also, it should have been a bit longer in my opinion.

The vampiresses also have healing powers which are shown repeatedly throughout the movie - for example when Lena forces the cop to shoot her and then shows him how her wound heals. And they can run up walls, even walk upside down on the ceiling; it's never explained how or why.

At the moment I can't provide screencaps or even video clips. I might add them as soon as a release finds it's way into the net.

Lost Boys: The Thirst - Short update

Not much to report on this one. There's one brief scene in which a female vampire jumps about 20 feet onto a stage and then throws a guy about the same distance. She is killed a few moments later. There were also some minor feats like jumping out of an airplane or running along a wall but that was about it.

The throw is here:

Lost Boys 3 - Throw

True Blood - Seasons 1-3

I think True Blood is fun to watch and have been following all three seasons thus far. It's too bad that there has been so little in the series in terms of superhuman displays of strength by hot female vampires. There are a couple of supernatural characters who showed the occasional mini strength feat, but it really wasn't much.

Anyway, here's my brief summary of the ubergirls of the first three seasons and their short moments of ubergirlishness ;-). I'm doing this off the top of my head, so feel free to correct me, if I'm wrong or miss something.

*** Spoilers ahead ***

(1) Pam - She is Eric's vampire daughter (i.e. he made her a vampire). There were a few moments where she moved at superspeed; she also briefly overpowered and threatened Lafayette in one scene; in the last episode of season 3 an assassin was sent to kill her, but she "took care of him" - offscreen, unfortunately - i.e. we only know about it, because she tells her maker later on (bummer).

Aside from her vampiric powers, she also has the power to be a cold-hearted bitch and spit out snide remarks at every given opportunity. I like her.

(2) Jessica - The cute redhead who Bill was forced to make a vampire in season 1 or the beginning of season 2. She had some more strength moments than Pam but not really much.

In one episode when she visited her parents, she pinned her father to the wall and threatened him. In season 3 she fought some werewolves, but you didn't see much. Right now, I can't think of any other scenes. It's a shame that she didn't explore her powers more after she had been made a vampire; that would have been a nice opportunity for some great scenes ...

(3) Maryann - The villainess of season 2 was a Maenad, a figure from Greek mythology. There was only one noteable scene where she used her physical power, and that was in one of the last episodes of season 2 when she briefly lifted Sookie by the throat. It was only a short scene and not really that impressive.

Her main power was to influence others who became possessed by her and enganged in mindless, but fun, Bacchanalian activities.

(4) Lorena - Bill's maker is a hot, jealous and crazy vampiress with no apparent moral sense. In other words: The perfect candidate for some evil displays of superhuman strength. Of all the female characters she had the most ubermoments (but still not much).

The most interesting scene was when she held Bill captive in a hotel room around episode 8 of season 2. There were a few short moments where she physically overpowered him; she also seemed to enjoy it. In season 3 there is a short scene in which she grabs Sookie and throws her against a wall, but unfortunately she is killed shortly afterwards. There also might have been a neckbreak or two during flashbacks in season 2.

(5) Sophie-Ann - The queen of Louisiana. She is, in my opinion, the hottest of the lot, but had the least amount of ubergirl-time. Actually, close to none. There was one short moment in which she moved at superspeed and threatened Eric in the beginning of season 3 but that was about it. In the final episode Bill challenges the queen and they jump at each other, but the episode left the outcome of the fight as a cliffhanger for the fourth season (*meh*). I hope they will show the fight and not only the aftermath, but we'll find out in a year or so ;-)

Well, that was a lot of text for so little content, but there you go.

The Gates - Season 1

ABC's Desperate Housewives with Vampires aka The Gates aired it's season finale this Sunday. To be honest, I didn't follow the series too closely except for looking for feats of superstrength and the like, so I can't really say if the show was any good.

Anyway, there were only two short superhuman moments, one in episode 9 IIRC, the other in the final episode.

In episode 9 the lovely Katheryn Winnick played a vampire who's out for revenge. In one scene she confronts her former lover who turned her into a vampire and kills him after a short, but sweet fight. She catches a sword with her hands during the fight and breaks off the tip; shortly after she lifts the guy by the collar and carries him to the wall where he is impaled by some kind of wooden stick.

In the final episode a bunch of vampires fought each other, however, only the very first few seconds of the fight were shown, the rest of the actual fighting occured off-screen. During these first few seconds Rhona Mitra grabs another female vamp and throws her several feet through the air onto the windshield of a nearby car. (No caps for this one yet.)

That was about it, which isn't really all that much unfortunately, unless I missed something. Thinking about it, it's still more than True Blood has delivered so far. Let's see if The Gates will get a second season ...