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Taking its title - possibly - from Lifeforce and some ideas from Under the Skin. Chris Alexander's Space Vampire has Ali Chappell (she's been in nearly all of his projects, including Necropolis: Legion, Scream of the Blind Dead, It Knows You're Alone, Girl With a Straight Razor and Parasite Lady) dressed in leather and stalking a victim (Cheryl Singleton) when she isn't simply filling the frame while low end beats pulse and wave. Alternatively, she's showering off the blood or puking it in the bathtub.

Also known as Last Dream of the First Girl - yes, my Jean Rollin theories of Alexander's inspirations seem to be true - Space Vampire takes advantage of being made in Southern Ontario, as the Dundurn Castle, a historic neoclassical mansion, appears. But most of what we see will be images pushed into the brightest state they can be, colors filling the screen and blood, always blood.

So many reviews of this movie absolutely hate it. I love that it exists on Tubi and someone could be looking for a vampire movie and come across this droning film, one that takes so long and yet is so short to tell whatever nonstory it has. And that's a compliment. It feels like something that should be confronting you in a museum and yet here it is, next to episodes of old sitcoms and whatever else a free streaming service has to unleash upon the unsuspecting.

If you have no patience, this will test you. If you want to watch a woman in a vinyl catsuit deal with the pain of vampirism while noises whirl under her when she isn't somewhere outside of Toronto making bloodsucking footprints in the snow, I really have no idea what movie will satisfy that particular craving except for this one.