History WebVideo / VampireReviews

* ''Film/Subspecies'' (1st film)

* ''Film/BramStokersDracula''

* ''[[Literature/{{TheSagaOfDarrenShan}} Cirque du Freak]]''

* ''Film/ModernVampires''

* ''Dracula: Pages From A Virgin's Diary''

* ''Film/Nosferatu''

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* ShippingGoggles: InUniverse. While she still coos over the [[HasTwoMommies Has Two Daddies]] aspect of ''Film/InterviewWithTheVampire'', she firmly denies any HomoeroticSubtext other than that. However, this was probably a reference to the fact that Anne Rice vampires CantHaveSexEver, rather than denying that the subtext is there.

The series began when the popularity of ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' prompted Elisa (Hansen, [[AlterEgoActing the real Elisa]]) to take a deeper look at vampires in fiction. Like ''The Nostalgia Chick'', ''Vampire Reviews'' takes a non-chronological approach to {{review}}ing, interspersed with sketches for greater illustration and entertainment. Incidentally, Elisa started her own saga of books featuring vampires (amongst other things) with ''Literature/TheImmortalJourney'' in 2019.

* BulletTime: Parodied in her review of ''Film/{{Blade}}''. She brags that she just invented "garlic time".

** She had this attitude towards a number of the lower entries on her list of the Top 10 Female Vampires, particularly Selene from ''Film/Underworld2003'' at #9 (who she had criticized in her ''Underworld'' review)[[note]]Mina Harker from the film version of ''Film/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'' placed lower at #10, but that was more due to [[AdaptationDecay her having not been a vampire]] in [[ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen the original graphic novel]][[/note]], using them to highlight how few well-written female vampires there were in fiction, the character type dominated otherwise by [[FlatCharacter one-dimensional]] [[VampiresAreSexGods temptresses]] who existed for little more than {{fanservice}}. Later, during her review of the ''Series/{{Blade}}'' TV series, she said that, had she known about that show's female lead Krista Starr when she made that list, Krista would've knocked Selene off of it in a heartbeat.

** {{Invoked}} and Discussed in her ''Literature/VampireAcademy'' review. The Moroi are supposedly "good" vampires because they refuse to fatally drink human blood, but they're still socially vampiric because they're [[TheBeautifulElite elitist snobs]] who use {{dhampir}}s as disposable body guards in their political power games, due to the latter's superior strength yet second-class citizen status. She argues the books explore this, but the film doesn't.

** Likes the first ''Film/{{Blade}}'' film the best because even if it ends on something of a downer for Blade ([[spoiler:he's forced to kill his vampire mother, his mentor/father figure is killed, and he rejects TheNotLoveInterest 's offer to help him fight vampires, making him more alone than ever]]), at least his character is dynamic; not the static one he becomes in the sequels and spin-off series.

** One of the things listed in "Top 10 Good Things About ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''" is that as bad as the series is it did provide a gateway drug to not only other vampire fiction, but reading in general. Especially since it'll often lead to way better stories.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Happens at the end of her ''30 Days of Night'' review. During the review, she chases Linkara (who's attracted because ''30 Days of Night'' was originally a comic) claiming that she doesn't need his expertise, which leads to the following scene: Maven boasts that she can review anything with vampires in it. Linkara challenges her to do Twilight (which she hates). When she says that it's been reviewed enough already and that she'd just be repeating what they said, he challenges her to give a ''positive'' review. She's boxed in by her statement that she could review anything with vampires in it (and Linkara prodding her along), so she does a top ten list of good things in ''Twilight'' (which is reduced to four).

* TheNotLoveInterest: Kind of ''loves'' that the filmmakers didn't make Karen into Film/{{Blade}}'s LoveInterest, since so few Hollywood movies refrain from shoehorning the lead male and female heroes together.

* {{Pride}}: Rejects [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]][='=]s offer of a crossover and tells him that she's perfectly able to review "anything about vampires, in any way" by herself. To her distress, she walks right into a challenge to review ''Film/{{Twilight}}'' in a positive way.

** Due to being stuck in DevelopmentHell for 9 years, ''Film/WhatWeDoInTheShadows'' had to incorporate changing social attitudes about vampires into the script, due to the rise of ''Film/{{Twilight}}'', the VampiresAreSexGods craze it sparked, its backlash, and vampire burnout society experienced between 2005 and 2014. She argues that it makes the film stronger since the post-''Film/{{Twilight}}'' vampire craze gave it so many more popular tropes to satirize and comment on, and a much more poignant DeconstructiveParody about how vampirism would not be as glamorous as people think. She concludes that the vampires ''themselves'' are as burned out from their own hype as society was by the time of the film's release.

* StatusQuoIsGod: Notes that Film/{{Blade}} is never allowed to change or grow in any of the sequels or spin-offs. [[spoiler:The second film even brings his mentor/father figure back from the dead so Blade can continue business as usual.]]

** She feels ''Film/{{Blade}}'' as a character is pretty underdeveloped and under-explored franchise-wide, due to the writers wanting him to remain strickly a RuleOfCool [[ByronicHero Brooding Loner]] EscapistCharacter, rather than a flawed and dynamic character who learns, grows, and changes over installments.

** ''Film/FrightNight2011'': Notes that the remake came out in the midst of the ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' backlash and was meant to harken back to the classic [[TheEighties 80's]] horror vampire that the anti-Twilight crowd yearned for. Yet, the film's marketing sold it as another soft, sensitive ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' knock-off. The result was the Twilight-hating crowd avoided it in disgust, while the few Twilight fans who went to see it were rightly ticked by the BaitAndSwitch.

** In her ''Film/BladeII'' review, she remarks that vampires in both movies are never really seen hurting humanity at large (first movie vampire mafia antics aside, but even then they were working alongside human crime lords), but just partying amongst themselves. The second movie especially plays down their violent-to-humans antics but plays up their "debaucerous" lifestyle (drug rave parties, fetishes, tattoos, etc) which implies that they ''deserve'' to die because "they're all slutty and wild."
** Likewise, discusses how the ''Series/{{Blade}}'' series reduces Blade, one of mainstream media's few black characters, into a [[FlatCharacter flat]] side character and gives all the drama, conflict, and story to two white characters (his fledgling and the series' BigBad).

''[[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjZfdrnSOrh4iFL2GCNvWVw Vampire Reviews]]'' is a VideoReviewShow covering vampire-related movies, TV shows, books, wine, perfume - anything with a vampiric bent, presented by the Maven of the Eventide, a brooding, gothic figure possessed of the dark, romantic, hypnotic allure of the classical vampire.

The series began when the popularity of ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' prompted Elisa (Hansen, [[AlterEgoActing the real Elisa]]) to take a deeper look at vampires in fiction. Like ''The Nostalgia Chick'', ''Vampire Reviews'' takes a non-chronological approach to reviewing, interspersed with sketches for greater illustration and entertainment. Incidentally, Elisa started her own saga of books featuring vampires (amongst other things) with ''Literature/TheImmortalJourney'' in 2019.

* DeathBySex: Comes up a lot in her reviews since a lot of vampire media uses vampirism to symbolize sexual awakenings, promiscuity, (or, more darkly, rape), and the "corrupted" mortal ([[SlutShaming usually a woman]]) often being killed off for it.

** Elisa also complains of the omnipresence of this regarding vampires while doing a list of female ones, stating that they're mostly only used for [[BuxomIsBetter cleavage]] instead of horror.

* PetPeeveTrope:[[invoked]] The trope she really seems to loathe is the AllLovingHero / MessianicArchetype.

* AdaptationalVillainy: The worst thing Eric Northman does is in the books is sexually harass Sookie (and even then, it's strongly implied she's [[UnfortunateImplications secretly into it but won't admit it]]), while the show has him kidnap, torture, and murder people in his torture cell under his club, explicitly trick Sookie into drinking his blood so she'll become attracted to him against her will (and {{mind rape}}s her with sex fantasies) after she made it clear she couldn't ''stand'' him. [[SubvertedTrope Yet]], he's still Elisa's second all-time favorite vampire character after Lestat.

** Finds Blade to be this in ''Film/BladeII'' because, unlike in the first one where he's trying to stop the evil mafia vampire who bit his mom and wants to TakeOverTheWorld, in the second film he still wants to kill all vampires even though most of them are only ever shown [[UnfortunateImplications partying amongst themselves]].

---> '''Elisa''': Speaking of ''The Breed''… Look what I made! ''(holds up new baby)'' [[LampshadeHanging You thought I was gonna talk about my book again, didn’t you?]]

---> '''Elisa''': ''(holding baby)'' You may notice that I have a little something special out tonight… It’s my book!

-->'''Maven:''' Because if a man's writing in a female-led genre, of course he's the gold standard.

-->That's a very orgasmic description, there.

--> '''Maven:''' Call...the ''she-wolf''. ''[A distant wolf howls.]''

-->'''Maven:''' ''Which is it'', movie? Are you sex-positive or not?!

-->'''Maven:''' If the camera would just let us ''see'' these fabulous actors' faces... But those damn curtains are in the way, because apparently the film thought the audience wanted to feel like Peeping Toms instead of connecting to the characters' feelings.

--> "1930s Hollywood was even more repressed than the actual Victorian Era."

-->'''Maven''': Selene? Th-there was a door to the stairs right there, and it's only one flight down, and those are silver bullets too! Do you know how soft those are?"

-->'''Maven:''' [[AnAesop Never gamble anything you aren't prepared to lose]].

--> "''Good eeeevenink!'' I am ze Maven of ze Eventide, and ''velcome'' to Vampire Reviewz! ...bleh!"

-->'''Maven:''' Once they shift, you can't tell them apart. And when they're ''slaughtered'', the audience feels ''no'' connection to their deaths. They're just shooting fodder. This is "disposable video game enemy" logic.

* TwoDecadesBehind: She and Todd go on that the book of ''Film/QueenOfTheDamned'', it made sense for Lestat [[ThePowerOfRock becoming a rock star]] considering how the genre was in TheEighties. Not so much in 2002, especially using NuMetal like the movie did.

* AbsoluteCleavage:
** Maven in her Elvira costume.
** The positive ''Twilight'' review features a corset so tight that you can visually measure her breathing by her cleavage going up and down.

** Taken UpToEleven in her ''Hellsing'' vampire review, where she does the opening greeting in Japanese with a VampireVords ''accent''. Based on the [=YouTube=] comments, most viewers will thank her never to do that again.

* WorldOfWeirdness: The Reviewaverse.

* [[invoked]]FranchiseOriginalSin: Remarks at the beginning of her ''Series/TrueBlood Season 3'' review that Creator/{{HBO}} tends to fall into a... particular pattern. They start each series with LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters, but manage to keep it ThreeLinesSomeWaiting. However, due to ''never'' writing any characters out of the show but steadily introducing new ones over the series, it inevitably becomes [[FourLinesAllWaiting Forty Lines, All Waiting]].

* EmotionalRegression: Still prefers this to a StaticCharacter since the character is still dynamic, even if they don't progress.
** Likes the first ''Film/{{Blade}}'' film the best because even if it ends on something of a downer for Blade ([[spoiler:he's forced to kill his vampire mother, his mentor/father figure is killed, and he rejects TheNotLoveInterest 's offer to help him fight vampires, making him more alone than ever]]), at least his character is dynamic; not the StaticCharacter he becomes in the sequels and spin-off series.

** Notes in her ''Film/BladeII'' review that while vampires are supposedly AlwaysChaoticEvil monsters and a threat to humanity, in both movies we only ever see them wanting to party amongst themselves or find a niche place in the fringes of human society (whether organized crime like the mafia vampires in the first film, or the wild party scene in the second film), and some even show more emotional depth and attachments to each other than [[StaticCharacter Blade]] ever shows for anyone, so she fails to see why they all ''deserve'' to be killed.

* StaticCharacter: Finds Blade from the ''Film/BladeTrilogy'' to be this. What little character growth he gets in the first film is [[StatusQuoIsGod undone in the second]] and he reverts back to being a brooding loner leading a single-minded one-man war against all vampires in all subsequent sequels and spin-offs.

** She felt ''Film/BladeII'' had the potential to explore the vampire's [=POV=] since Blade teams up with a group of them, and even challenge Blade's belief that they're AlwaysChaoticEvil since his LoveInterest hints that he's their boogie man and is sympathetic herself--but nope! Everyone's a FlatCharacter except Blade (who is a StaticCharacter), all the vampire characters are killed off, and Blade continues his one-man war against all vampires without any character growth or insight.

* TakeThat: Has one with WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows at the entire genre of Nu Metal. Basically, their review of ''Film/QueenOfTheDamned'' devotes a considerable time to the fact that Lestat's world changing musical persona is undercut by the fact he is playing in a genre which they consider faddish at best, and was already going out of fashion when the movie released. They also point out that Anne Rice set it up so Lestat's musical persona was based on rock legend ''Jim Morrison'' so the switch to using Korn is a big step down. Which isn't even necessarily an insult to Korn so much as BigShoesToFill.

** While (in character) she's automatically opposed to werewolves, one of the reasons she dislikes Selene in ''Film/Underworld2003'' and the subsequent films is that she goes around killing ''every'' werewolf she comes across, regardless of whether they've actually done anything wrong.