- Actors: Tristen Coeur D'Alene, Jezebelle Bond, John Maryland, Sean Vossler, Catalina Larranaga
- Directors: Robert Kubilos
- Format: Colour, DVD-Video, NTSC
- Language English
- Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 4:3 - 1.33:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: Unrated (US MPAA rating. See details.)
- Studio: Playboy Home Video
- DVD Release Date: 22 Jan 2002
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- ASIN: B00005UM33
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 215,648 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
In 'Embrace the Darkness II', Catalina Larranaga makes a key contribution to the pantheon of strong, powerful, darkly sexual, female vampires. Cat is a very fine actress and her performance here is balanced perfectly between the predatory and the seductive - it's clear why she's the only softcore actress ever to play Cleopatra on the London stage. In this movie, Catalina is the very embodiment of Akivasha, the Stygian vampire princess from Robert E. Howard's classic 1935 novel, 'The Hour Of The Dragon.'
'Embrace The Darkness II' is substantially better than its competitors in the field of softcore vampire porn and Catalina Larranaga's performance lifts the whole production by several further degrees. The scene where Catalina lies with her male and female lovers, reflecting on her vampiric un-life, conveys the inevitable ennui of immortality so powerfully that it compares well with Karl Edward Wagner's classic vampire story, 'Mirage.' Catalina's performance in this scene is one of the finest in the whole of 'vampire cinema' - when asked how long she's been a vampire, Cat stares languidly into the middle distance, reckoning the years, and responds, dreamily: "How long, you ask? 27...28...hundred years..." Wonderful.
'Embrace the Darkness II' is somewhat harder than the softcore norm (especially in this Unrated version - substantially stronger than the version shown on UK tv in 2003) but would have benefitted greatly from sharper editing in several scenes containing poor acting from the supporting cast and/or clunky dialogue, and their replacement by additional, and even harder/longer, sex scenes or flashback sequences of Catalina's past among the Egyptians, Romans and Aztecs. However, Catalina's performance - easily the best female vampire lead since Ingrid Pitt in 'The Vampire Lovers' - carries the production beyond these flaws and deserves far wider acclaim among lovers of female vampire cinema.
'Embrace The Darkness II' is substantially better than its competitors in the field of softcore vampire porn and Catalina Larranaga's performance lifts the whole production by several further degrees. The scene where Catalina lies with her male and female lovers, reflecting on her vampiric un-life, conveys the inevitable ennui of immortality so powerfully that it compares well with Karl Edward Wagner's classic vampire story, 'Mirage.' Catalina's performance in this scene is one of the finest in the whole of 'vampire cinema' - when asked how long she's been a vampire, Cat stares languidly into the middle distance, reckoning the years, and responds, dreamily: "How long, you ask? 27...28...hundred years..." Wonderful.
'Embrace the Darkness II' is somewhat harder than the softcore norm (especially in this Unrated version - substantially stronger than the version shown on UK tv in 2003) but would have benefitted greatly from sharper editing in several scenes containing poor acting from the supporting cast and/or clunky dialogue, and their replacement by additional, and even harder/longer, sex scenes or flashback sequences of Catalina's past among the Egyptians, Romans and Aztecs. However, Catalina's performance - easily the best female vampire lead since Ingrid Pitt in 'The Vampire Lovers' - carries the production beyond these flaws and deserves far wider acclaim among lovers of female vampire cinema.
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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful
VAMPIRES... BITE LATER
5 Mar 2002
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
RENEE REA and CATALINA LARRANAGA in the same movie! Outstanding!
Embrace the Darkness 2 has some pretty intense sexy scenes that show a lot more than most of these kinds of movies. That's a good thing.
If you're a fan of RENEE or CATALINA, this movie is worth purchasing. The two women are prominently featured in most of the movie.
Unfortantely, there are a lot of down sides. The directing is terrible. Shots held too long in editing, make some of the stunts looks pretty darn silly. The acting is pretty bad too, and again, I blame the direction and editing. The love scenes or sex scenes (whatever you want to call them), seem to all take place in the exact same place! A lighted table in the basement of a dance club. Their pretty hot scenes, but a little variety would have helped.
All in all, I'm glad I bought it. But I'm a RENEE REA freak.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
The continuing adventures of Jennifer the vampire.
3 Mar 2005
Format:DVD
This movie picks up right where Embrace the Darkness left off. Jennifer is now a vampire. She's also played by a different actress (Renee Rea). I liked the original Jennifer better but Renee is plenty attractive as well.
The rest of the movie plays out very much like the first one did. Jennifer meets two other vampires. The girl vampire (Catalina Larranaga) is bad, but the guy vampire is good. Most of the movie follows the same formula. Vampire gets hungry. Vampire finds a mortal who looks tasty. Vampire has sex with mortal. Vampire feeds on mortal. These vampires are all wussies though. They only kill a couple of people in the entire movie. Obviously, the story wasn't too memorable, but it held my interest enough to keep my finger off the fast forward button. There's also some pretty cool special effects used throughout.
There are nine sex scenes. Six are boy/girl. One is girl solo. One is girl/girl. One is guy/girl/girl. For the most part, the sex scenes were good and decently explicit. They all play out to completion and the actors and actresses are always audible over the background music.
The women are all attractive and deliver good performances. There are five of them that participate in the sex scenes.
There was definitely room for improvement. Katie Lohmann's masturbation scene could have been done better and Catalina Larranaga should have removed her clothes for the lesbian scene.
It's no better or worse than the first movie. If you liked that one, you'll probably be happy with this one.
The rest of the movie plays out very much like the first one did. Jennifer meets two other vampires. The girl vampire (Catalina Larranaga) is bad, but the guy vampire is good. Most of the movie follows the same formula. Vampire gets hungry. Vampire finds a mortal who looks tasty. Vampire has sex with mortal. Vampire feeds on mortal. These vampires are all wussies though. They only kill a couple of people in the entire movie. Obviously, the story wasn't too memorable, but it held my interest enough to keep my finger off the fast forward button. There's also some pretty cool special effects used throughout.
There are nine sex scenes. Six are boy/girl. One is girl solo. One is girl/girl. One is guy/girl/girl. For the most part, the sex scenes were good and decently explicit. They all play out to completion and the actors and actresses are always audible over the background music.
The women are all attractive and deliver good performances. There are five of them that participate in the sex scenes.
There was definitely room for improvement. Katie Lohmann's masturbation scene could have been done better and Catalina Larranaga should have removed her clothes for the lesbian scene.
It's no better or worse than the first movie. If you liked that one, you'll probably be happy with this one.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Erotic Horror With An Interesting Twist
26 Aug 2004
Format:DVD
This is the second erotic vampire movie in the series but has no other relation to the other movies.
A young woman has found herself transformed into a vampire but does not understand what is going on. She is taken under the wings of a pair of old vampires connected with a goth club. As she learns more about her new self, she has to break completely from her past. Unfortunately her old boyfriend has other ideas.
As her boyfriend tries to track her down we also meet a vampire hunter named Van (Van Helsing). He is on the track of a very old vampire. The end involves an interesting twist that would have been great in a "straight" vampire film.
Okay, obviously no one is going to be watching this one for stellar acting or effects. Naked bodies in motion is the allure of these movies. Most of the cast is in very good shape and are shown off in full detail. The action is more frontal than these movies usually are and that will put this one high on may people's lists.
If erotic with a touch of horror is your cup of tea then you will be sure to be pleased by this one.
A young woman has found herself transformed into a vampire but does not understand what is going on. She is taken under the wings of a pair of old vampires connected with a goth club. As she learns more about her new self, she has to break completely from her past. Unfortunately her old boyfriend has other ideas.
As her boyfriend tries to track her down we also meet a vampire hunter named Van (Van Helsing). He is on the track of a very old vampire. The end involves an interesting twist that would have been great in a "straight" vampire film.
Okay, obviously no one is going to be watching this one for stellar acting or effects. Naked bodies in motion is the allure of these movies. Most of the cast is in very good shape and are shown off in full detail. The action is more frontal than these movies usually are and that will put this one high on may people's lists.
If erotic with a touch of horror is your cup of tea then you will be sure to be pleased by this one.
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