| A Polish Vampire in Burbank" is the story
of a poor unfortunate vampire named Dupah (Mark Pirro) who has never
bitten anybody in his life, because he always felt his fangs were too
small. For years he would sit at home in a large castle in the hills of
Burbank and drink leftover blood with a straw from a ziplock baggie.
One day, his father (Hugh O. Fields), kicks him out of the house
exclaiming that "I've been the blood winner long enough...." Dupah
then goes on a reluctant quest for blood with the help of his sister,
Yvonne (Marya Gant) and the skeletal remains of his long deceased
brother, Sphincter (Eddie Deezen).
In his travels, he encounters Delores Lane (Lori
Sutton), an instructress at a local health club who just happens to
have a mad passion for vampire movies. At first, Dupah targets her as
his first victim, until he starts to fall for her and doesn' t want to
lose her respect by biting her.
"Polish Vampire" premiered at midnight to a near
sell out crowd at the Nuart Theatre in West Los Angeles on
October30th,1983. The Nuart Theatre has also been the midnight home to
"The Rocky Horror Picture Show" for many years.
Polish Vampire took two and a half years to
complete since the entire soundtrack was created in post. Pirro himself
did many of the actor's voices (Hugh O. Fields, Eddie Deezen,
Pimp,various background voices). The film won a Silver Award at the
Houston International Film Festival in the mid 80s. It has been on the
home video circuit since 1985 and can still be found in the cult movie
section of many Video stores. It played for two years on USA Network's
"Commander USA's Groovy Movies" and "Up All Night" with Gilbert
Gottfried.
In the summer of 2001, in preparing for a DVD release,
Mark Pirro went back to the original transfers and remastered this
film, bringing back the flavor of the original 1983 theatrical
showing. When it was originally released on video in 1985, the
transfer was made from the camera original reversal footage, which had
numerous splices and scratches. The splices would cause a
picture"hop" just before each cut. Unfortunately, every VHS copy
was printed this way. Moreover, the soundtrack was limited to a
mono track because in 1985, it was difficult and more expensive to dupe
in stereo.
This newly remastered version, now available has been
completely redone. For the soundtrack, Pirro went back to the original
reel to reel audio masters (basically falling apart) and remixed it
into the enhanced picture.The result is a version of Polish Vampire
that has never been seen before.
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DVD Box cover
Dupah (Mark Pirro) finds true love
Theatrical Premiere October 30, 1983
The new 25th anniversary special edition DVD comes with:
Remastered feature (better than it's looked in 25 years),director's
commentary, "making of" documentary POLISH VAMPIRE: BEHIND THE FANGS,
more deleted scenes than previous release, tv promos and trailers and a
few surprises. NO other version out there is approved or authorized by
Pirromount Pictures (especially the disastrous 2002 version with the
mosquito on the cover). $19.95
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