Thursday, October 17, 2019

Short Film: From Dusk till Dad


Technically part of a short anthology series by Cracked, called Tales to get Scared To, and renamed I'm Worried My Step Dad's A Vampire on their YouTube Channel, this is a 2016 short film directed by Abe Epperson.

Roy and Will
Starting in a counsellor’s office, we meet Will (Philip Labes) whose parents have gone through a divorce. The counsellor, Clint (Nate Eco), seems more intent on lining Will’s current dilemma with his own adolescent experiences and is dismissive of the idea that Will’s Mom (Debbie Zaltman) might now be dating a monster…

lots of bats
Not just a monster, Will retorts, but a vampire named Roy (Hal Rudnick)… a literal vampire. We soon realise that Will is not there alone but Roy has come to the session also. He wears casual clothing and a Dracula-esque pendant, he is pale of skin, has an Eastern European accent and fangs… It seems Will might be right but Clint is having none of it. However, could common ground be found with a vampire, for the sake of his mom…

Well the answer is in the short, embedded below, which has a rather gruesome attack on a cat. The imdb page is here.

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