Red Blooded American Girl is a 1990 Canadian science fiction horror film written by Allan Moyle, directed by David Blyth and starring Andrew Stevens, Heather Thomas, Christopher Plummer and Kim Coates.
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Premise
A young woman is transformed into a vampire by a virus. The vampire doctor who's treating her hires a young scientist to find a cure. He and the girl fall for each other hard, but she, mad from hunger, escapes to wreak havoc on the city.
Cast
Andrew Stevens as Owen Augustus Urban III
Heather Thomas as Paula Bukowsky
Christopher Plummer as Dr. John Alcore
Kim Coates as Dennis
Lydie Denier as Rebecca Murrin
Andrew Jackson as Donald
Reception
TV Guide gave a mixed review: "Plummer's commanding presence gives the enterprise a shot of class, but it needed a massive transfusion."
Fred Haeseker of the Calgary Herald awarded the film two stars and praised Plummer's performance.
Sequel
An in name only sequel titled Red-Blooded American Girl II was released in 1997, with none of the original's cast and a different storyline; only director David Blyth connects the two films. In his 2015 book Spinegrinder: The Movies Most Critics Won’t Write About, author Clive Davies called it a "a useless road movie that isn't really a sequel".