Watching the sun sink below the Pacific horizon is the closest that
Zero [John Savage] can come to making himself feel almost human again…and this is only
after 1,000 years of slowly acclimatizing himself to small amounts of
sunlight to build up his resistance. Zero is a vampire. He lives with his
“family” — two female vampires, Alko [Marriam Parris] and Laura [Diana Frank], and a green-haired
vampire dwarf they call Kiddo [Michael J. Anderson]. Watching the sun sink below the Pacific horizon is the closest that
Corri [Starr Andreeff] can come to clearing her mind of the thoughts that haunt her. Corri
is not a vampire, but she lives the vampire lifestyle, sleeping days and
turning tricks at night as an exotic dancer at an underground nightclub
called Club Vampire. [The doorway is framed by a huge vampire head.
Patrons walk in through the fanged mouth.] Both Zero and Corri are bored
with their lives, which are about to merge. After accepting a few bucks to have sex with Laura on the floor at
the club, Corri winds up cut up and dead. Unfortunately for Corri, Laura
inadvertently dribbled some blood into Corri’s mouth during their
encounter, but Zero stops her from finishing Corri off. Corri is now on
the path to becoming a vampire. Corri awakens the next morning and finds
herself in sad shape, but she manages to make it home to the condo she
shares with her young son Max [Ross Malinger], who makes it very clear that he would
rather his mother work at the mall selling 1,000 shades of pink nail
polish than continue working her disgusting job at the club. She begins
exhibiting increased strength while also suffering from severe stomach
cramps. Although she used to be a vegetarian, Corri attempts to feed her
growing hunger by eating raw meat from the grocery store. When she almost
bites her own son but gobbles up his pet hamster instead, Corri realizes
that something is wrong. When Laura finds out that Corri is alive and beginning the turn, she
tells Alko, who orders Zero to find and destroy Corri as they want no more
additions to the family. Zero goes to Corri’s apartment to do the deed but
finds her throwing up her intestines and ultimately offers to help her
through the change. He takes her to a motel and brings her a gothgirl
hooker to feed on. He explains that his family is after her, and him too,
because he refused to obey orders to kill “the accident.” When Laura, Alko, and Kiddo learn that Corri is still alive, they
ambush Zero and Corri in an alley and attempt to kill them both. Zero wins
the fight, so the family agrees to let them live through the night. Zero
tries to convince Corri to hide out with him in Nepal for a few hundred
years, but Corri refuses to abandon Max. She goes to the club and asks her
friend Melanie [Viktoria Chapman] to get Max and hide him. On the way to Corri’s place,
however, Melanie makes the mistake of picking up a seemingly lost and
abandoned young girl and her little brother, who turn out to be Alko and
Kiddo. They are joined by Laura, and, together, they force Corri’s address
out of Melanie. Back at Club Vampire, Corri and Zero have taken a short nap. When
they awaken, Corri is horrified to see Melanie’s severed head staring at
her. Although it is daylight, Zero bundles himself up and hurries to
Corri’s apartment, taking shelter in a dark tunnel when he can no longer
stand the sun. After the sun has set, Laura, Alko, and Kiddo pay Max a
visit. Zero attempts to stop them from harming Max, but Alko severs Zero’s
head, leaving him for “dead.” Back to Club Vampire they go, Max in tow.
They kill everyone in the place except for Max and Corri. They chain Corri
and position her in front of a window, then the family sits back to await
the morning sun while listening to “the barbecue” philosophize about love,
caring, and the real meaning of “family.” Meanwhile, Zero’s head, which the family thoughtlessly left laying on
the floor, has reattached itself to his body. Zero hurries back to Club
Vampire, arriving just as Max, during a moment he wasn’t being watched,
secrets the padlock key from Laura’s lap and passes it to Corri. Kiddo
slaps Max across the room, but it is too late. Corri is free, and she’s
fighting mad. She kicks Laura while Zero tosses gasoline and a lighted
match on her. He then slices off Kiddo’s head and pulls Alko into the
sunlight until she burns up. “Sorry I took so long,” Zero explains to
Corri. “I just had to get my head together.” Epilogue: In a voiceover issuing from a Columbia airliner flying over
the Himalayas, Zero lists some of the pros and cons of living in Nepal,
then admits that he is in love with Corri. “Life!” he summarizes. “You
can’t live with it, but you can learn to live without it.” Original Synopsis by bj_kuehl.