Certainly this film appears better budgeted than the original, which gave the impression of being set in a single warehouse. There are some intriguingly dressed sets and the film willingly embraces Goth chic, serving up some niftily exotic costume designs and interesting teases of Goth erotica. But it seems more interested in being a horror film than an erotic film. All the principal actresses do get topless at various points but the sex scenes are brief and rather dull. The story is really the old softcore erotica standard of the country girl come to the big city where her innocence is in danger of being corrupted by decadent debaucheries. Not too much is explained about how the Jennifer character became a vampire in the first place – it is just something thrown at us in the beginning. In the end, this seems oddly caught between being an erotic film – which it doesn’t seem that interested in being – and a horror film – but one where the plot is struck at the fairly minimalist level of an erotic film – and never quite satisfying as either.

Catalina Larranga as the vampire queen Lizzie certainly has a sultry, decadent presence. Although the character of Tristen Coeur D’Alene’s Jack, the substitute for Kevin Spirtas’s Gaylen from the original, lacks Spirtas’s darkly handsome moodiness. D’Alene comes with a pockmarked face and an Irish accent – he seems more like a petty street thug than he does a moodily handsome vampire lover. He plays the part not too badly though – rather than a darkly tortured seducer, he gives us a more inward, softer, overtly romantic figure.

Director Robert Kubilos made a further sequel Embrace the Darkness 3 (2002), which continues the adventures of Jennifer but features an entirely different cast.