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"Skin Eating Jungle Vampires" begins with one of our heroines, the young Tiffany (played sweetly by actress Violet Sweet), romping through the jungle of Costa Rica, where she has come to vacation during Spring Break. She is soon captured by a group of female vampires and spirited away to a cave hidden in a nearby volcano. The vampires intend to offer Tiffany as a gift to their Dark One, the God of Maggots, in hopes of being delivered from their unhappy exile on Earth. It seems the jungle demons are the last surviving remnants of a faraway planet that was destroyed in a cataclysmic explosion and must suffer for their decision to flee. The only surviving male of their species is Mr. Creepo, played by Beckley himself, who does a wonderful extended cameo send-up of Peter Lorre along with his screenwriting, production and direction chores.
Meanwhile, back in the USA, Tiffany's older sister Carla (played by lovely blonde Carla Anderson) is awakened from a nightmare in which she witnesses Tiffany's capture and torture by the vampires. There is a psychic, telepathic bond between the two sisters, and they can each sense when the other is in danger. Carla hops on a plane for Costa Rica in hopes of rescuing Tiffany from her hellish plight. After a visit to a Costa Rican witch doctor, who warns Carla away from the fiery fate awaiting her, the intrepid older sister begins a journey upriver that brings to mind Martin Sheen in "Apocalypse Now."
There is lots of excellent footage in "Skin Eating Jungle Vampires" of the Costa Rican jungle, where the film was shot on location, and the use of quiet, scenic establishing shots helps build the suspense as Carla gets ever closer to her confrontation with the vampires holding Tiffany captive. An actress named Persephone portrays the Evil Jungle Queen, the vampires' interim leader, and her snake dance is, in the familiar phrase, "worth the price of admission." An unbelievably orgiastic feast on human blood and guts goes on a little longer than some viewers might feel comfortable with, but again, that's the sort of excess the Mr. Creepo crew is all about.
Found by Artemka
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