One star might be too generous. My desire
to see some trashy bad films may have gone too far with this one. I literally
feel stupider after watching it all the way through as if brain cells had
just jumped ship. I need to slowly, gingerly walk back to a semblance
of a real film with a plot, characterization, production values and coherency.
This film had none of that. It makes the Mexican Batwoman film look like
a work of flamboyant artistic genius. Why would someone make a film this
bad? Where on earth would it play? The local mental asylum? Even they would
boo it. It has a large coterie of busty females in it so I kept expecting
them to turn it into one of those old-fashioned nudies, but no such luck.
This was produced and directed by a fellow named Jerry Warren. If you see
that name on any film, run the other way. He was sort of a bottom of the
barrel Roger Corman making independent films with titles like Teenage Zombies,
Terror of the Bloodhunters and Man Beast. That was before he began buying
foreign films and re-editing them and inserting newly shot dialogue scenes.
He was sued by the Bat folks so he changed the title of this one to She Was
a Hippy Vampire. The only mention of vampires is in the opening scene in
which a few girls are being initiated into the Batwoman cult and they mention
being vampires. Shot I would guess just so they could use the new title.
It gave me hope though for a few seconds. A bunch of female bat vampires
showing cleavage and dancing a lot.
So Batwoman (Katherine Victor who is the only smart one here by never revealing
her face) has a group of about ten Bat Girls who supposedly help her but
in an early scene they witness a man being robbed and shot and do nothing
to intervene. The Girls spend most of their time dancing the frug around
a pool or in a club or whenever they are given Happy Pills. Batwoman lives
in a house that must be in the Yellow pages as everyone can find it and comes
right up to the door and knocks. Or just walks in. The Girls are usually
lounging around on the floor in leisure wear showing their ample talents.
Batwoman is playing the organ. How could they not make this into a lesbian
super hero film? Rat Fink and his huge army of three men are trying to steal
a device that will allow them to listen in to any conversation in the world.
Batwoman is trying to stop her nemesis but they all drink Happy Soup and
dance. I know this description makes it sound great but unless you have brain
cells to sacrifice I would stay away. Apparently it was an episode on Mystery
Science Theater 3000. That might be worth a gander.
