Directors: Justin G. Dyck & John Esposito
First aired: 2023
Contains spoilers
Into season 4 of Creepshow and, honestly, I thought the season as a whole was weaker than previous ones. Nevertheless, it is still a solid piece of spooky entertainment in the Lonesome October and that’s what matters.
In the fourth episode the first segment was our vampire part and it starts with a vampire hunter attacking a vampire woman in her coffin.
Into season 4 of Creepshow and, honestly, I thought the season as a whole was weaker than previous ones. Nevertheless, it is still a solid piece of spooky entertainment in the Lonesome October and that’s what matters.
In the fourth episode the first segment was our vampire part and it starts with a vampire hunter attacking a vampire woman in her coffin.
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| staking |
The staking is really rather well done with the vampire haemorrhaging into the coffin, filling it with blood, which is – of course – a folkloric type of stake response. The attack is a dream and Chuck Belasko (Brendan Taylor) awakens next to his wife, Helena (Lisa Durupt) – they are in a coffin made for two. He gets up and goes to a nearby coffin containing his daughter, Anastasia (Karis Cameron), telling her to put her phone down and go to sleep.
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| young love |
They are in a moving van going to their new home and this is a world in which vampires are out of the coffin – indeed they are described as Vampire Americans. They have moved because Anastasia, or Anna, had been attacked in their old town (and bears a cross shaped scar as a reminder). The new town is meant to be tolerant but proves not so much so. Their new neighbour, Doug (Donavon Stinson), clearly doesn’t like them because they are vampires – though his son, Alex (Matthew Nelson-Mahood), seems rather taken with Anna. Equally, the local coffee shop is hiring but vampires need not apply.
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| bat creature form |
Unfortunately, Doug doesn’t take kindly to the new relationship and this leads to both a tragedy and a rather cold revenge. The vampire elements in this are fun. They can turn into bat-creatures, they burn in the sun but it is a fairly slow, painful process, and they appear as dead things on camera. This is a world with all sorts of blood supplements and there is a comment that a Belasko hasn’t bit a human for 100-years. This doesn’t necessarily bring a whole lot new to the party (though the division in America on both racial and political lines are obviously sub-texts) but it is solid vampire fun. 6 out of 10.
The imdb page is here.
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On Blu-Ray @ Amazon UK
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