Main Cast: Eileen Daley, Christopher Adamson, Kevin Howarth, Jonathan Coote, David Warbeck
Release Year: 1998
Country: UK
Run Time: 101 minutes
MPAA Rating: NR
Plot
The story begins in 1850, when Lilith Silver (Eileen Daley) interrupts a duel between her lover and the nasty Sir Sethane Blake (Christopher Adamson). When she shoots Blake, he just smiles, and punishes her impudence by biting her on the neck when she is shot in turn by his manservant. After a nifty title sequence, the film flashes forward 150 years to watch Silver in modern London, where she hangs out at glitzy vampire bars and works as a mercenary. Lilith's biggest job involves hunting down members of the Illuminati, a sect of freemasons bent on world domination. Their ruler, not coincidentally, is Sir Sethane Blake. Clad in skintight black leather and armed with a coffin full of guns, knives, and throwing-stars, the blood-sucking hit woman uses her supernatural abilities to hunt down her targets and avoid police, at least until Inspector Price (Jonathan Coote) and a forensic scientist nicknamed "the Horror Film Man" (David Warbeck) get on her trail. Visually dazzling and loaded with sex, blood, and macabre humor, Razor Blade Smile uses an array of cinematic techniques to achieve the slick look of a glossy comic book, reminiscent of many Asian efforts in the genre, and quite unlike anything to come out of Britain in recent memory. ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide
Review
The late David Warbeck (The Beyond, Blacksnake) made his last film appearance in this hip, flashy vampire action flick starring the beautiful Eileen Daly, best known to cult film buffs as the face of Redemption Video. The cheerfully stylish bloodbath casts Daly as a fanged assassin, alleviating the boredom of her eternal existence by getting decked out in sprayed-on leather and spraying her surroundings with cold, hard steel. The result is funny, sexy, gory, and the most entertaining British vampire film since the days of Hammer Films. Visually dazzling and loaded with sex, blood, and macabre humor, Razor Blade Smile uses an array of cinematic techniques to achieve the slick look of a glossy comic book, reminiscent of many Asian efforts in the genre and quite unlike anything to come out of Britain in recent memory. Daly shines in her first leading role, and as Redemption fans can attest, was born to play a vampire. To put it plainly, she looks terrific (both in and out of costume), and in a movie centered on visual style, that's what it's all about. ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide
Heidi James - Ariauna; Jennifer Guy; Louisa Moore; Isabel Brooke; Glenn Wrage; Eileen Daly
Credit
Will Jeffery - Associate Producer, Suzanne Lee-Barnes - Associate Producer, Dena Costello - Coordinator, Jake West - Director, Jake West - Editor, Marvin Gleicher - Executive Producer, Jake West - Executive Producer, Laurence Guinness - Executive Producer, Robert Mercer - Executive Producer, David West - Executive Producer, Richard Wells - Composer (Music Score), Neil Jenkins - Production Designer, James Solan - Cinematographer, Jake West - Producer, Robert Mercer - Producer, Chris Pye - Sound/Sound Designer, Jake West - Screenwriter, Robert Mercer - Screenwriter
