There has been a rash of missing people in and around the Twin Palms trailer park. The park is run by Wilma Jean Deersly (Elizabeth Ochoa) and her husband, Buddy (Michael Street). Most of the park residents are elderly. The police are up to their necks in internal scandals, so they aren’t interested in launching an investigation.
Detective Andrew Holt (Robin Schurtz) has teamed up with Jennifer Baiswell (Kathy Moran) to find out what happened to the missing. One of the missing people is Jennifer’s grandmother. Jennifer is a psychic who has a mental connection with Grandma Baiswell and is sometimes possessed by the old woman. In that state, the old lady gives Jennifer clues as to what happened to her and sometimes speaks through Jennifer. Grandma Baiswell gives them the clue to look for the Twin Palms trailer park.
In the meantime, Linda Strapado (Patricia McKiou), who represents some investors, wants to purchase the trailer park from the Deerslys for a theme park. The contract stipulates that before the sale can go through; the trailer park must be empty. The Deerslys have a problem in that the tenants of the park have lifetime leases. In order to sell the park, the Deerslys must kill the residents. As the park’s activities director, Buddy devises activities for the tenants that are designed to accentuate their health problems and kill them.
A woman calling herself Aunt Hattie (Ethel Miller) talks Buddy into renting her and her nephew (Patrick Moran) a trailer. Wilma is pissed, but Buddy shows her a wad of money given to him by Hattie, so she lets it slide. What the Deerslys don’t know if that Aunt Hattie’s “nephew” is actually a vampire, a bulimic vampire, and Aunt Hattie is his servant.
Janna (Blake Pickett) and Buzz (Bently Tittle) are lovers that rob convenience stores and shoot anyone in the way. Buzz is not happy with his lot in life and wants to do something bigger. One day, he and Janna meet Buddy. Buddy understands Buzz and hires him to kill the residents of the park. He is unaware that there is already a vampire in the trailer park. Buddy, who is still trying to kill the residents, makes it into a contest. Whoever kills the most old people, wins.
“Vampire Trailer Park” was released in 1991 and was directed by Steve Latshaw. It is a low budget American shot on video horror comedy.
Mostly forgotten, the movie does manage to have a small cult following. I’m not real sure why. The humor is bad, the acting is bad, and the plot is basically nonexistent. The film itself seems to be a worn-out VHS copy. I’m not sure if it ever had a DVD release and there isn’t much information available on it. Bootleg copies are available. The foley guy really seems to like his job. Some of the sound effects were clearer than the dialogue. There is some camp to the film but it’s not really funny. It’s also not very good, but certainly not the worst I’ve seen. Still, I was a little disappointed in the film.
Patrick Moran, who plays the vampire, also wrote the screenplay. As for vampire history, this one was a plantation owner in the south at one time and became a vampire somewhere around 1746. Other than that, there isn’t any real history on him, at least other than being blue and bulimic. He isn’t even given a name. Somehow, he uses the television to hypnotize his victims before he bites them and drinks their blood.
The copy of the film I have has a blank spot between 59:02 and 100:28.