From the director of great movie autobiographies such as Gandhi, and Cry Freedom, Chaplin hooks you right from the start. Simply, it's an interesting story. How a ragamuffin from the poor end of London became the most famous man in the world is wonderful.

Robert Downey Jr will always be able to look at this piece of work as his finest (forget Air America and all the news about addictions, this piece of film-work will keep him fondly remembered)

Footnote:
When all movies were still silent flickering images, Chaplin made features dealing with controversial topics such as racism, and fascism, which lead the US authorities, particularly J Edgar Hoover, to brand Chaplin a communist, and have him kicked out of the USA. Chaplin deserved better, and had to wait until the 1970s before he was remembered and recognised by his peers in America.

It may seem like an oxymoron, but this soft-core is intelligent. Sure it's a easy to follow plot of an alien woman come to study sex, but as she moves from one episode to another they are all well linked. This film has a plot!

And the woman are excellent! This is also much much better than the sequel. Make sure to get the unrated version.

I'm an .... I was sucked in by the title. I love vampire-sex films. This film has very little vampirism but lots of poor quality & plotless sex.

I had already decided, after seeing other John Bacchus lemons, not to buy any more of his films. I didn't know that this one was from his stable.

They are so formulaic. Excepting as mentioned earlier, this has so little vampirism. It involves primarily a rather ugly and seemingly retarded man spying on a lot of other people having sex.

This man just walks into some girls apartment and without her noticing, stands in the bathroom door as she soaps herself.

He is bitten once on the arm (that's the extent of the vampirism), and then goes and watches more people. There's the typical John Bacchus feature; a woman in bath/shower soaping herself.

Thus the sex scenes aren't really connected to anything. Tina Krause stands outside in the dark waiting for him to report back. She dances around topless a bit, but has very little else to do in this film other then to die pointlessly at the end, having had a few scenes dancing, and being very bored.

Even the DVD bonus material (on the flip-side of the disc) is also meaningless as we see Misty Mundae in a long sequence not used in the film "An Erotic Vampire in Paris" which again features a bath scene. She bathes, as the she-Vampire comes in. The she-Vampire spends a long time brushing her hair before getting in the bath too. There's a little bit of breast-fondling, but no vampirism. More shots from some other film are used including a woman standing in front of a window and rubbing herself. There was no point to this either.

If you enjoy John Bacchus films you are the most easy to please person on the planet. He enjoys showing women (with inflated breasts) doing lots of dancing and prancing about, and very mild sex scenes, varied only by someone pretending to be a vampire or a demon. And of course, there's got to be a scene showing someone washing herself. It's like a moving version of a ... spread (big boobs, high-heels, big hair).

Rae Dawn Chong is hot in this, despite being covered in ashes, & having no words to say (except 'caveman' language).

"The Toy Box" (aka "The Orgy Box") might have been a porn film, I'm not sure, but the Amazon version is not very explicit.

There's a supernatural sex theme as various people get their just desserts in interesting ways, the best being as Uschi Diggart is seduced by the bed-sheets she lies in.

Very little makes sense, but I loved it for that alone.

The next film "Toys are not for Children" is quite strange (not in any positive way). A girl is obsessed with her long-lost father and the toys she got from him.

She grows up to an immature woman. A man marries her, but she can't satisfy him or herself as she wants to sleep with her toys. I thought that this was just stupid.

Somehow she gets involved with an odd woman who sets her up with another man (who *spoiler alert* *spoiler alert* turns out to be her daddy whom she kills)!

Released here in Australia under the more 'spiritual' title "Fixing the Shadow", this film, based on a true story, deals with an undercover cop (Sheen) who verges on the suicidal. His pain stems from the confrontation he had with his cop-step-father who abused him as a child.

Sheen, encountering an Apache, learns the tale of someone who 'lost their shadow.' Thus, as Sheen goes undercover, he must confront his fears in order to be restored whole.

You can bear this in mind, otherwise this would just be another biker film.

Whoever compiled these two films together obviously was fooled by the term 'vamp' (as was I, the poor [person] who bought this DVD).

That's right!

The first film is a highly edited film, orginally a hard-core porno, but presented here at only an hour long with all the porn bits scaled down so you don't actually see XXX stuff.

It was originally made in a Spanish-speaking country. The makers have seen fit to put in their own subtitles, which causes the only hilarity in the entire film.

The second film is simply a collection of women dressing & undressing in underwear... ! Take the first scene, a woman spends 10 minutes soaping herself in the shower, before spending another ten minutes in the bedroom oiling herself. That is it! There's no dialogue from her.

The film then moves to a short, busty woman (all the women have pumped up boobs), who dresses, then undresses into various types of underwear.

The rest of the film is like this!

This film is probably the greatest let down in vampire-film going history!

The DVD only has two chapters. One takes up about a minute, the rest consists of the entire film.

Go by the other reviews, but be warned - whoever put this on DVD was especially lazy. There is just 2 chapters, one of about 1 minute, the rest the entire film!

I found this out only when I was about forty minutes into the film wanted to fast forward a chapter and ended back at the title page! I was majorly annoyed!

Most of the reviewers who panned this are Muslim, and I suppose most who give this a thumbs up are not. Likewise, this review is in its own way biased.

I thought this book was great. Some of the negative reviewers don't know what they're talking about... one talked about 'weak' haddiths (commentaries on the Koran and the life of the Prophet; most written by those who knew him), which is like saying of the Bible some of the books are weak (or not so critical to the overall belief). You can't pick and choose; I believe that you must accept the good with the bad. (Actuall, some Muslims reject some Haddiths, so they are said to be 'weak', but this book actuall bases most of its writtings on the 'strong' haddiths, and what of the Muslims that believe the 'weak' ones...?)

If you read this book, you'll discover some shocking truths about Islam and I'm not talking about Muslims of today, but the religion itself, such as the fact that much of it is couched in pagan beliefs that pre-date Islam itself. Much of it stems from misunderstandings of other religions such as Judaism, and Christianity (the Prophet seems to think Christians believed in a Trinity of Father, Son, & Mary!)

The Prophet is portrayed in not to good a light, which is an insult to believers, but is in fact based upon Muslim writings... such as the fact that he married a six year old girl, then consumated the marriage when she was nine. Also that he lusted after his step-son's wife and had him divorce her so that he could marry her.

Some may downplay these things by saying the source is a 'weak' haddith. But it is part of the tradition of Islam. Such, also is the massacres of about 900 PoWs - on the Prophets orders.

Students of Islam are taught to gloss-over these factors, or explain them away in relativist terms (e.g. sure that's bad, but other people did bad things too!). But they remain none-the-less.

If you are considering converting, or are just interested in comparative religion, then I would strongly recommend that you read this. You can check the 'sources' against any pro-Islamic web-site (such as the Haddith written by Aisha - the Prophet's under-aged wife which is widely available and confirms that the Prophet didn't just marry her symbolically).

Of course you'll hate this book if you're part of the religion, you're taught to believe without questions... Islam means to 'submit.' But I do hope people will read this book.

By the way... the author of this book is of no religious persuassion so he's not trying to get people to follow his religion.