Black Vampire 2

While in Yaoundé at the end of last month, I ran into Volunteer Kelsey, who was on her way back to America. As it happens, she and her boyfriend Reese (also a volunteer who has since gone back home) were once randomly cast in a Cameroonian horror movie called Black Vampire. They were hanging out a hotel in Bamenda and the filmmakers were shooting the movie there. they were cast on the spot as tourists that get eaten by a bunch of Black Vampires.

I had heard stories of the legendary film, but had never had the chance to see it. When I saw her in Yaoundé I learned that the same director had made a sequel and cast the two of them again. She didn't have a copy of the original, but she did have a copy of Black Vampire 2. So, a bunch of us naturally gathered together at the Case de Passage to watch it.

Reese had a bigger part in the sequel, as an evil white man who was trying to get a magic book that would allow him to control the Black Vampires that were overrunning Cameroon and use them to take over the world (or something ... I guess). We didn't see much of Kelsey. There was a scene where she randomly helps the heroes attack the vampires and kicks one of them when he's down. Then another where she's found on the ground with bites in her neck and is rushed to the hospital. After that we are told only that "Sharon is responding to treatment."

We didn't make it through the whole movie, which was a shame because I could see it was quite possibly the best film ever made. I can only hope that one day it comes to America and we can all rent it on Netflix.

For the inside story on the making of Black Vampire, see Kelsey's pictures and story here.