Sue Wheeler in Sergio Lapel's Drawing Blood (1999)

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A vampire artist cultivates an interest in painting portraits in blood in the ghoulish horror comedy Sergio Lapel's Drawing Blood (1999). A low-budget mix of arthouse horror and lowbrow sludge, Lapel’s film stars Dawn Spinella as Diana, a blood-sucker who dabbles in the visual arts as a way to blow off steam. By collecting the cadavers of prostitutes, the morbid painter is able to realize large-scale canvases in human blood. Diana has some trouble acquiring said bodies, however, so she enlists the aid of Edmond (Kirk Wilson), a struggling artist who has an acute love-hate relationship with his mentor. Perhaps predictably, Lapel’s feature devolves into a depraved orgy of blood sucking, body flaying, and taboo carnality. It’s an equal-opportunity skin show, however, as everybody from the madam vampire (Spinella) to her female victims (Amie Childers and Sue Wheeler) drop their tops for the camera.