Vampire's Embrace VHS box
art.   Despite my name on the
directors credit, local copy stores
still refused to make color copies
due to possible copyright issues.
Continuity Still of actress
Sarah Watchman.  It's
common practice to have
the talent show their hands
like this in case rings or
anything are involved.
Filming the finale fight scene
with a hand-cranked 16mm
Bolex. From left: Edna Boyle,
Glenn Andreiev, and Paul
Borgese.
NIGHT

SYNOPSIS:  Margot Etting (Jillanne Smith) is leading a
group of vampire hunters to killer a pack of lethal blood-
suckers.   She has only one night to do this.   One of the
vampires is a double agent, taking most of his orders from
the head vampire, Garring (Richard Cutler).
Margot's attack begins with success, but soon backfires.

PRODUCTION FACTS:   Night was remade by Glenn
Andreiev as
Silver Night.   

Night was distributed by Joseph Green, who directed the
1962 cult classic
The Brain That Wouldn't Die.    Green's
only demands was fixing numerous dead spots in the film's
soundtrack.    During the mid 90's, nudity was no longer  
such a big issue in exploitation horror films.

The film was originally budgeted for a 16mm production.
A 5 minute trailer was shot on videotape.   The trailer had
such a sharp look, potential investors suggested making
the entire film on video.   

A scene which required cast members to scream and yell at
each other in a cemetery at night caused local police to
come up to our location.   Our town issued permits allowed
to stay.  (Our screaming did tick off the neighbors.)
NIGHT poster art
Garring meets his end.  The
board behind actor Richard
Cutler had a hole for him to
stick his head through.  A
dummy torso made up plastic,
a beachball, and pasta sauce
was matched to his neck.
Anne Marie Marino
as Alana, a young
woman who starts out
as a victim, then
becomes a vampire.
Jillanne Smith as Margot.
Her bloodied shirt was tainted
with poison ivy half way thru
shooting.  To maintain the
continuity, the bloodstains were
traced on the shirt with a marker,
then heavily washed.
VAMPYRE DOUBLE FEATURE



VAMPIRE'S EMBRACE (1993)
NIGHT (1997)
VAMPIRE'S EMBRACE

SYNOPSIS:   Bob Friedman (Paul Borgese) leaves a sour
relationship with a greedy woman (Mimi Stuart).   He
marries a shy, lovely girl, Angela (Sarah Watchman).   He
notices she leaves the house in early a.m hours and
returns before dawn.  He follows her one night only to learn  
that she is a 200 year old vampire that dines on bikers.

PRODUCTION FACTS  The screenplay was based on a
Hindu vampire legend about a prince who marries a shy
peasant girl who never eats.  He kills her when he
discovers she's a vampire.  I figured my film concerned an
intelligent  modern couple, who would try to cope with  
vampirism in a relationship.

Paul Borgese, the film's star, later was cast as Yogi Berra in
Billy Crystal's  
61 and has turned to directing. (Searching
For Bobby D)

The distributor suggested replacing the film's working title,
Angela with the more marketable Vampire's Embrace.   As
a sign as to what was required in 80's horror films, the
distributor demanded several scenes be re-shot with nudity.

This was the first time Nicholas D. Kent created music for a
Glenn Andreiev film.    For a Revolutionary War flashback
scene, Nick used the funeral march written for George
Washington's funeral.