In a world where vampire blood is harvested as a drug, two desperate teenagers on the run from a vicious dealer break into an empty house and find a sleeping girl locked inside.
Actors Jasper Jones & John Howley, director Andrew Bell, and producer Nicholas Santos will present and Q&A.
Grimmfest Says: It might seem a strange claim for a narrative ostensibly about vampires, but this is a film with a rare, raw authenticity; a stark, grim, utterly unsentimental exploration of the nature of addiction, which keeps its genre elements dialled down low, focusing instead on the day to day existence of the small-town, small-time addict; the petty thefts and betrayals of friends and family, the desperate hustles, the confrontations with vicious but low-level dealers and their brutal head-busting goons.
The protagonists could just as easily be junkies or crackheads or tweakers as vampires, and the film’s clear-eyed but compassionate and sympathetic depiction of suburban teenage desperation and nihilistic despair owes as much to films such as RIVER’S EDGE as it does to more overtly horror-themed narratives, and grounds the film’s more fantastic elements within an all-too-unnervingly real world, making it all the more harrowing, horrifying, and emotionally brutal.