Overview: A group of college girls pledging a sorority stumble into a hallucinatory mix of low-budget, butt-biting vampires, unexplained time jumps, and increasingly ridiculous supernatural situations.

What could have easily been a standard late-’90s sexy campus romp instead mutates into a kinetic, self-aware horror spoof. It stacks crude jokes, whiplash editing, and chaotic genre detours at such a relentless pace that it plays less like a conventional shot-on-video vampire film and more like a live-action cartoon funhouse spiraling out of control.

Les Sekely’s Vampire Time Travelers is also an absurdist precursor to the deliberately chaotic anti-comedy and disruptive editing later perfected by The Eric Andre Show and Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! and operates on the idea that psychically overloading the viewer is ultimately the joke.

Its anything-goes structure, meta humor, and total disregard for narrative stability place it firmly in the lineage of the surreal DIY comedy that would eventually be refined for a generation of Adult Swim viewers, making it one of the most unique SOV horror films ever committed to tape.

Blu-ray Verdict: If you give this movie a chance to evolve - which means longer than 20 minutes - you will be glad, as what happens is after a slow start you suddenly get the main cast turning their collective acting skills up from an opening languidness to quickly finding their stride.

Aside from the plot, which is, to say the least, beyond a purposeful joke (which is actually ok here, once the comedic acting kicks in the movie starts to unfold in such a way as to become very entertaining.

For instance, the main vampire tries to turn into a bat and fails, and this becomes a running bit, with one pretty effective and stealthy pun and several predictable other outcomes. The actresses ham it up, and I thought several were very effective, or at least did pretty well with what they were given.

Even when we don’t take the plot seriously, which again, we shouldn’t, there are more parts that work than don’t, in my humble opinion. There are also some parts that are kind of funny in a surprise left of center way, which was entertaining to note.

I wouldn’t say that the quality is at Monty Python’s Flying Circus level of comedy, but the same kind of absurdity is clearly what they were going for; and succeed with sometimes too. It’s also not your typical time travel movie, despite the title. The parts where that plot gets worked in are pretty random and contribute to the weirdness. I can appreciate what it was trying to do, and so I rate it higher than I would have done had I have turned this movie off before the 20 minute mark. [D.O.]

Limited Edition Special Features:
New director-approved SD master from original tape elements
Commentary with director Les Sekely
Director Les Sekely interview
Actress JJ Rodgers interview
Actress Angelia Scott interview
Director of Photography Dennis Devine and Assistant Director Steve Jarvis interview
Short Film: Not So Grim Reaper
Vampire Time Travelers - Visual Vengeance Trailer
Bonus Movie: I Know What You Did In English Class (2000)
English Class Commentary with director Les Sekely
Director Les Sekely English Class interview
English Class Cinematographer Russ Lindsay Interview
English Class Director of Photography Dennis Devine and Production Assistant Steve Jarvis interview
English Class Actor Russell Towne interview
I Know What You Did in English Class - Visual Vengeance Trailer
Visual Vengeance trailers
‘Stick Your Own’ VHS sticker set
Reversible sleeve featuring new I Know What You Did In English Class art
Folded mini-poster
Optional English subtitles