Vampire Trailer Park (1991)

The Twin Palms Trailer Park isn’t just a setting; it’s a buffet. Wilma and Buddy’s urban renewal plan via supernatural pest control is peak landlord villainy. By weaponizing John Devereux Laporte, they’ve turned a 17th-century aristocrat into a glorified hitman. A man who once owned plantations and lived in opulence is now reduced to hunting in a trailer park, his refined palate ruined by the gamey flavor of the elderly and the marginalized. His projectile vomiting isn’t just a gross-out gag. It’s his body literally rejecting the low-class blood he’s forced to consume. He’s a bulimic blue-blood in a Walmart world.

Between the vampire and a teenage crime duo, Buzz (Bently Tittle) and Jana (Blake Pickett), they’re clearing the place out and getting ready to sell the trailer park at a profit, even if every old person has to die.
How do you catch a vampire in a regional SOV horror movie? Well, if you’re this Florida-made wonder, you hire Jennifer Baiswell (Kathy Moran), a psychic who is joined by Detective Andrew Holt (Robin Shurtz). I have no idea how they’re getting paid, as their client has been killed by one of the bloodsuckers. And then there’s Aunt Hattie (Ethel Miller), who seems to drive our vampire anywhere they need to go.

Meanwhile, Jennifer has a psychic connection to her grandmother, often finding herself possessed by her. Can you be possessed by someone who isn’t dead yet? As for the vampire, he was a plantation owner and certainly a rich man, now left to be bulimic because he isn’t eating the best of food. Old people are kind of gamey, I guess. Just listen to what the dialogue has to say about him: “John Devereux Laporte, died 1746. Our job was to make sure he died again, this time for keeps. In life, Laporte was an obscenely wealthy Louisiana planter and slaveowner, the last of his line, a true aristocrat, a born leader of men. You know, a real asshole!”

There’s a hypnotic TV, SOV drone, original songs, way too much plot and a few laughs, some of which work.

Director Steve Latshaw would go on to make Jack-O, Return of the Killer Shrews and Biohazard: The Alien Force with Moran writing.

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