Plot

Two college students, Keith and AJ, want to hire a stripper for their college initiation party, so they go to a dark, seedy part of town to look for a good candidate. They visit a nightclub

Nightclub

A nightclub is an entertainment venue which usually operates late into the night...

 in a barren, desolate, no-mans land section where the police rarely patrol. The men do not realize that the club is run by vampires and that vampires and psychopathic albino gangland thugs prowl the alleys.

After the vampire Queen Katrina (Grace Jones

Grace Jones

Grace Jones is a Jamaican-American singer, model and actress.Jones secured a record deal with Island Records in 1977, which resulted in a string of dance-club hits. In the late 1970s, she adapted the emerging electronic music style and adopted a severe, androgynous look with square-cut hair and...

) first seduces A.J. (Robert Rusler

Robert Rusler

Robert Rusler is an American film and television actor.Rusler was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, the son of Maria Elena and Richard C. Rusler. He moved to Waikiki Beach in Hawaii, where he started surfing and skateboarding on a semi-professional level, competiting in local tournaments...

) playfully at first after he takes off his shirt and lies back on her waterbed (filled with blood), by licking his chest and rubbing him up and down. She then rips into his throat viciously and drinks his blood. Keith (Chris Makepeace

Chris Makepeace

- Life and career :Makepeace was born in Montreal, Quebec, the son of Doreen and Harry Makepeace. He began his acting career in a 1974 Canadian television special, The Ottawa Valley. His next role was in 1979's Canadian comedy, Meatballs, in which he starred opposite Bill Murray, playing one of the...

) must try to escape the vampires or survive until dawn, whichever comes first. He finds one potential ally; a waitress Amaretto (Dedee Pfeiffer

Dedee Pfeiffer

Dedee Pfeiffer is an American film and television actress.Pfeiffer was born Dorothy D. Pfeiffer in Midway City, California, the daughter of Donna , a home-maker, and Richard Pfeiffer, a heating and air-conditioning contractor...

) who claims she knows the men from grade school. Finally, Keith and Amaretto manage to escape up a manhole cover to reach the sunlight. AJ, who was bitten by Katrina earlier in the movie, has to remain below them in the dark sewers.

Release

The film was released theatrically in the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 by New World Pictures in July 1986. It grossed $4,941,117 at the box office.

The film was released on DVD

DVD

A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....

 in 2001 by Anchor Bay Entertainment

Anchor Bay Entertainment

Anchor Bay Entertainment is a U.S. based home entertainment and production company and is a division of Starz Media, which is a unit of Starz, LLC. It was previously owned by IDT Entertainment until 2006 when IDT was purchased by Starz Media. Anchor Bay markets and sells feature films, series,...

. The company subsequently re-released it on DVD in 2005 in the Fright Pack 2 set.
The film will be released on Blu-ray on September 20, 2011 by Image Entertainment.

The film was released on Region 2 DVD on February 21, 2011.