Director: Chris Alexander
Year: 2023
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Vampire
Plot:
Living in a run-down motel, a female vampire using a local carnival as a hunting ground falls in love with a young woman and brings her into a relationship together but when an inter-dimensional host comes to check on her, finds a deadly choice must be made.
Review:
This here was a pretty solid and likable arthouse vampire short. That comes about mainly from the fine visual aesthetics on display, opting for a near-silent experience of her mental anguish wandering through society trying to pick off victims without being detected. Utilizing an array of filters, colored lighting, camera speed trickery, and bombastic musical stings to offset the minimal dialog, it's quite easy to get a sense of the old-school European arthouse style featured here even before realizing the action accompanying all of it in its footsteps as well.
Featuring her journey to gather victims, bringing them back to the hotel hideout to seduce them, allowing her disciple to join her ranks, or following her daily routine looking out over the world, there's a really fine touch on this one to really propel this alongside the cheesy yet effective gore for quite a lot to like. This is really only hurt in the finale where the lack of dialogue and short running time means it can't really explain what's happening so it's all rather confusing with the arthouse style here not making a lot of this come together. This isn't too bad, though, and still means that there's a lot to like here.
Overview: ***.5/5
A highly effective arthouse-style vampire short, there's quite a lot to like here that its few flaws don't have too much of an impact here leaving this to be quite enjoyable. Give this a shot if you enjoy this approach, are not bothered by the flaws, or are fans of the creative crew while those who are not interested in the style of this one should need caution.
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