Chillers 3 – review

Director: Tyler Benjamin

Release date: unknown

Contains spoilers

An anthology movie, and third in the series, at the time of writing IMDb still shows this as an upcoming movie with no date but it is available on DVD (on Amazon from 2022) and on Tubi. The first two anthologies were in 2015.

There are three segments in this, of unequal lengths. The last is the shortest but the vampire segment, Hunted, is the first segment and, I’d say, the most together of all three.

bite

It starts, through the credits, of the meeting (in period dress and shot in black and white) of William (Nick Dent) and Lillian (Pamela Voorhees). In what amounts to snippets we see him woo her and then bite her. Later, in the modern day, they give her age as decades and his as centuries.

Pamela Voorhees as Lillian

In the modern day we see him bring a junky into their home and them feed on him. Lillian is getting sick of the taste of junkies – the drugs spoil the flavour of the blood. It becomes apparent that, whilst they still have passion, he rarely lets her out for “her protection”. He hunts and brings money and victims who won’t be missed. It is the restlessness she feels that will form the centre of the plot. I did wonder as to the very modern outfits she has (does he bring them back, or does he let her go shopping) and the tattoos she has that would seem to be something of the modern day. These things are not addressed.

trial by vampire

We also see Chris (Tim W. Sullivan) meet Maxim (Pavel Antonenko). Chris thinks Maxim is some sort of freelance bounty hunter and has been sent as partner/assistant. Maxim takes him out on a job and pushes him towards their quarry (Andishay Wolvpact Taj) who quickly reveals himself to be a vampire. Only when held helplessly by the throat does Maxim intervene and throw Chris a metal spike, which he stakes the vampire with. Chris has just been initiated as a vampire hunter.

Josh and Lillian

Lillian follows Maxim and sees him pick up a woman and take her off somewhere. Lillian retreats. We see them kiss and then William attack and bite the woman. His feed is interrupted (he says by police, but we don’t see them). Lillian, in the meantime, meets a guy named Josh (Cody Williams) who she seems to like but she does feed on someone in the street. Her attack brings the hunters’ attention to bear…

staked

One piece of lore to mention is the idea that killing your maker will return the vampire to humanity. All-in-all, this was a good little segment, though it could have withstood more length to flesh it out. This was certainly helped by Pamela Voorhees (awful stage name, to be fair, and rubbish for googling), whose performance was natural and her on-screen presence welcome, and undoubtedly my favourite of the three segments, the score for this segment is 5.5 out of 10 – which might be a tad generous but, certainly, properly fleshed into a feature it’d be fair.

The imdb page is here.

On DVD @ Amazon US

On DVD @ Amazon UK