''Vampires'', also known as ''Abandon'', is a 1986
horror film
Horror is a film genre that seeks to elicit fear or disgust in its audience for entertainment purposes.
Horror films often explore dark subject matter and may deal with transgressive topics or themes. Broad elements include monsters, apoca ...
directed by
Len Anthony and starring
Duane Jones
Duane L. Jones (April 11, 1937July 22, 1988) was an American actor and theatre director, best known for his lead role as Ben in the 1968 horror film ''Night of the Living Dead''. He was later director of the Maguire Theater at the State Universi ...
,
John Bly
John Bly , (born 27 May 1939), is an antiques dealer, author, after-dinner speaker and broadcaster who is best known from the BBC's ''Antiques Roadshow'' TV program (UK).
Career
Educated at Berkhamsted School, Bly is also a lecturer, public spe ...
,
Jackie James
Jackie James is a Scottish singer/songwriter and keyboard player. James wrote the Million seller, " Heartbeat" for the group Steps, and went on to write more songs for the group. She has also written songs for Celine Dion, Jennifer Lopez and ...
, Orly Benyar, Kit Jones, and Robin Michaels; it was the final film of Duane Jones.
[ The cinematographer was Ernest Dickerson, who later worked with Spike Lee and directed some episodes of horror TV show ''The Walking Dead''.
The plot concerns mysterious events at a private girls' school in which the students' life-energy is drained by a mad scientist's machine. Subsequently the film was retitled ''Abandon'' and included in a double bill on VHS with Anthony's later film ''Fright House'', under the title of the latter movie. It was released on DVD in 2016.
]
Plot
Cast
Critical reception
HorrorNews.net called it "completely and utterly forgettable".
References
External links
*
*
1986 films
1986 horror films
American vampire films
1980s English-language films
1980s American films
{{1980s-US-film-stub