Director: Robert Dean III (as Robiiiworld)
Year: 2026
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Vampire
Plot:
After getting out of jail, a down-on-his-luck guy joins his friend at a new job to help get him back on his feet, but when they get invited to a stranger’s house party in the suburbs are shocked to find the experience is a way for a guy to feed his vampire daughters and must get away alive.
Review:
Overall, this was a somewhat disappointing, if still watchable, genre effort. Among the better features here is the generally low-key nature of what’s going on, as this all manages to be a fun display of this kind of scenario. This type of setup, where the guy and his friend get caught up in something far bigger than they thought when the party they think they’re heading to turns out to be a front for the owner to feed unsuspecting guests to his vampire daughters, allows this to work nicely enough as a way to get to know the couple before everything starts and gets ready for the emerging party where the discovery of their hosts’ malicious intentions provide this with a lot of impressive factors. The cheesy action and low-budget gore help make this quite fun and oftentimes somewhat hilarious, as their responses to everything make this feel that much more enjoyable, trying to make sense of what’s happening involving the vampire side coming out and chasing the group around the house.
However, that doesn’t detract from the fact that this is quite lacking until we get to that point. It’s immensely difficult to get on the guy’s side here, as a lazy, entitled mooch wanting to just play video games and hang out with his deadbeat friend who got him thrown in jail, which makes it difficult to really care about the early stages of them going around before the party. Since it shows them as such hapless losers that they’re not worth the plans involving the attempts to get the ungrateful girlfriend back on his good side, but hardly any of it paints them in a good light, where he’s worthy of being involved in this kind of relationship with her in the first place. That comes about to hold up the action in this one until the final half, where it finally starts bringing in the action once they arrive at the house party, and for a film this short with such an excessively overlong blooper reel to get this over an hour with so few interesting scenes, and alongside its cheap presentation are what hold this one down.
Overview: **/5
A solid if overall problematic indie vampire film, there are some enjoyable elements here that are undone quite heavily by the big flaws here that are more than enough to keep this one where it is. Those who appreciate this kind of genre fare, who are curious about it, or who don’t mind the issues present will have the most to like here, while most others out there should heed extreme caution.
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