Vampirella is a 1996 American direct-to-video superhero film which was part of the Roger Corman Presents series.
Wrong choice for the star, massive union problems in Vegas, studio interference, theft, accidents, 112 degree heat, you name it, we had it happen.
Their society's harmony is interrupted when Vlad Tepish, a rebel vampire who prefers the traditional practice of sucking the blood of others, along with his accomplices, murders all the members of the Council of Elders who govern Drákulon and then flees to Earth in order to create a race of vampires with their own ideals.
Among the murdered elders was the father of Ella, who, with a desire for revenge, decides to follow Vlad's trail to Earth.
Upon arrival, she immediately begins to do everything possible to reach Vlad, who is now in Las Vegas and pretends to be a singer named Jamie Blood.
In her eagerness, she coincides with a special police unit responsible for trapping extraterrestrial beings that intend to damage the Earth.
At first Ella, who now calls herself Vampirella, intends to continue with her revenge plan, but then allies with the special unit and must fight against Vlad and his vampires to save humanity from being turned into a horde of vampires, although this implies that she violates her own principles of not drinking blood from other beings.
[4] Hammer came close to making the film again in 1978 starring Barbara Leigh; Christopher Wicking wrote a script and John Hough was to direct.
[8][self-published source] Wynorski had a friend, Gary Gerani, who was a Vampirella aficionado, and hired him to write the script.
"[10] "When you see how lousy those bat transformations are", said Gerani, "you'll realize that we're just a hip little million-dollar drive-in movie.
"[10] "Given how absurd anything called Vampirella would be, the movie certainly doesn't insult your intelligence", says Gerani.
In 2021, Dynamite Entertainment announced a new feature film was in development, in addition to plans for television adaptations based on the Vampirella Universe.