Friday, August 09, 2024

Short Film: Queen of Night


This was a 2021 short film, hailing from the Bronx as a community project, and comes in at 7.5 minutes. It starts with D’Angelo (Michael Beasley) running down the road and something is pursuing him. We see the chase through a red filtered pov.

Michael Beasley as D'Angelo

He gets to his apartment block and drops his keys but manages to grab them, get in and get to his apartment. Inside he locks and chains the door. He goes to his room and realises that the window is open. He closes it and Millie (Natasha Collado) is stood behind him. He asks her what’s going on, mentioning her floating with glowing eyes above a pentagram and being chased. They are interrupted by his grandmother (Jacqueline Rosa) who can’t see Millie (I suspect she’s blind rather than Millie being invisible).

Natasha Collado as Millie

The reason for looking at this here is the dream D’Angelo has after Millie crashes on his bed and so he sleeps on the floor. He sees her (through a red filter) sat above him, fangs click out and she bites him. It is a very vampy moment. When he awakens it was just a dream, but Millie has left handprints on the ceiling! An interesting little film, it doesn’t give us much story, more an aftermath of something and an introduction to the characters. At the time of writing, I couldn’t find an IMDb page.

3 comments:

Ghostly said...

There is a second chapter to this short film, and in that one we find out that Millie is a succubus not a vampire.
Here is the link to the second one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kwz4CQAHL9s

Taliesin_ttlg said...

Hi Ghostly, thanks for that. I was actually aware (hence, in the tags you'll see that I had put Succubus). There is a further short film article already written covering part 2 - that'll go up over in the next few weeks.

However, I do always appreciate people dropping extra info :)

Ghostly said...

No worries, see the tag completely missed it. :) The interesting thing was that they left the second chapter on a cliffhanger, not sure if the creator intends on doing a 3rd episode. :)