Case Study Post 6:

'The Sun' - Lesbian Vampire Killers Review:

Vamps a bite of alright

Vampires don't suck ... Mat Horne and James Corden meet sexy Scandinavians

LESBIAN VAMPIRE KILLERS (15) 86 minutes

JAMES CORDEN. You know the type. The class clown who wants to be everyone’s friend.

He says “mate” a lot, tries to be a lad by talking about women’s breasts and uses phrases like “Do I look like a t***?” No comment, James.

It’s bad acting because it is obvious that Corden’s reluctant vampire-slaying character Fletch is just putting on an act. And that act is the loud person Corden thinks we want to see.

To be honest, The Sneak doesn’t watch much telly so has only ever caught a couple of episodes of Gavin & Stacey, the comedy that made Corden a star. But after just 25 minutes of the big-boned actor’s movie debut, his likely lad act was already wearing very thin.

Steamy ... Girl-on-girl action heats up proceedings

The opening scenes were greeted with barely a snigger from the audience, apart from one bloke who let out an OTT guffaw every time Corden opened his mouth.

Fortunately, Lesbian Vampire Killers is not a one-man fright fest.

The pained “Please shut up” expression on sidekick Mat Horne’s face is highly amusing. It is impossible not to empathise with his character Jimmy. You feel sorry for anyone who has to put up with Fletch.

What really makes the film hot up is the arrival of the lollypop-chewing, mini-skirt-wearing Scandinavian girls who happen to be visiting the same cursed village in Norfolk as Fletch and Jimmy.

Amusing ... Mat Horne

All of them, apart from Lotte, are soon transformed into lesbian vampires. It’s knowingly silly.

Vampire movies are ripe for a spoof and this doesn’t stray far from the path of modesty trodden by Hammer House. There is little nudity, no sex and no blood.

Impish Swede MyAnna Buring as kick-ass Lotte and Paul McGann as a vampire-hating vicar both play it brilliantly deadpan.

Once Horne and Corden are split up, with the vicar teaming up with Fletch and Lotte falling for Jimmy, the laughs start to flow. By the end of the movie your critic had lost control of his funny bone.

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Many other reviewers will undoubtedly say that LVK is another British comic flop but The Sneak won’t be driving that stake into its heart.

Best Line: The vicar responds “Do they?” when Fletch tells him everyone knows how to kill vampires.

Best character: Feisty Lotte pulls the soppy lads into action.

Family rating: Lots of swearing.

Bum numbness: Far from eternal.

Rating out of five: Three

UK release date: March 20