Director: Spider One
Release date: 2024
Contains spoilers
Is Little Bites a vampire film? Well there is certainly something vampiric going on and central monster Agyar (Jon Sklaroff) shares his name with the titular character of a vampire novel by Steven Brust, though this is unconnected. Director Spider One also directed vampire film Bury the Bride, so one assumes the vampiric activity was deliberate.
It starts with Mindy Vogel (Krsy Fox, Bury the Bride & Underworld: Evolution) sat in a darkened area with the aforementioned Agyar. He states that he is hungry and she tries to direct him to a leg, but he wants the arm. She protests, it is infected and needs time to recover, any worse and she will have to go to hospital – something he protests and, of course, he ends up with her arm, which he bites and suckles at.
He is a monster that lives in her cellar and is feeding repeatedly from her over time. She is become more and more exhausted and ill, dark rings around her eyes and her body a patchwork of wounds (there is a full chunk of flesh missing from her back but in the main they are bite marks and so it is clear that he is sucking her blood). He actually wants her ten-year-old daughter Alice (Elizabeth Phoenix Caro) but Mindy has sent her to stay with her grandmother (Bonnie Aarons, Jakob’s Wife). As grandma doesn’t know what is going on with mum, she is less than impressed. Mindy believes her sacrifice is protecting Alice.
Things become more awkward when someone tips off child protective services and a caseworker, Sonya Whitfield (Barbara Crampton) pitches up and wants to speak to Alice. As the film progresses, we get Mindy trying to feed Agyar from alternative sources and a realisation of where her strength actually lies. Agyar declines one meal as they taste of misery and despair and he prefers the taste of someone with something to lose – Mindy. We also discover he does not feed from the dead (which is an occasionally used vampire trope) and that he can simply devour a person whole and in one go in a matter of minutes (and will then lick the room clean).
This was interesting and was carried in main by Krsy Fox, though Jon Sklaroff is charmingly sinister. Agyar has done this before – we actually meet someone who appears to be a previous victim and he talks of the many others. However as interesting and quirky as this was the ending jarred a little as it relied on a reaction from Alice that the film hadn’t built to. Beyond that the main thrust was Nietzschean, dwelling on “He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.” Overall, this was a neat little horror jaunt 6 out of 10.
The imdb page is here.
On DVD @ Amazon US
Is Little Bites a vampire film? Well there is certainly something vampiric going on and central monster Agyar (Jon Sklaroff) shares his name with the titular character of a vampire novel by Steven Brust, though this is unconnected. Director Spider One also directed vampire film Bury the Bride, so one assumes the vampiric activity was deliberate.
 |
| Mindy and Agyar |
It starts with Mindy Vogel (Krsy Fox, Bury the Bride & Underworld: Evolution) sat in a darkened area with the aforementioned Agyar. He states that he is hungry and she tries to direct him to a leg, but he wants the arm. She protests, it is infected and needs time to recover, any worse and she will have to go to hospital – something he protests and, of course, he ends up with her arm, which he bites and suckles at.
 |
| Mindy looks ill |
He is a monster that lives in her cellar and is feeding repeatedly from her over time. She is become more and more exhausted and ill, dark rings around her eyes and her body a patchwork of wounds (there is a full chunk of flesh missing from her back but in the main they are bite marks and so it is clear that he is sucking her blood). He actually wants her ten-year-old daughter Alice (Elizabeth Phoenix Caro) but Mindy has sent her to stay with her grandmother (Bonnie Aarons, Jakob’s Wife). As grandma doesn’t know what is going on with mum, she is less than impressed. Mindy believes her sacrifice is protecting Alice.
 |
| Jon Sklaroff as Agyar |
Things become more awkward when someone tips off child protective services and a caseworker, Sonya Whitfield (Barbara Crampton) pitches up and wants to speak to Alice. As the film progresses, we get Mindy trying to feed Agyar from alternative sources and a realisation of where her strength actually lies. Agyar declines one meal as they taste of misery and despair and he prefers the taste of someone with something to lose – Mindy. We also discover he does not feed from the dead (which is an occasionally used vampire trope) and that he can simply devour a person whole and in one go in a matter of minutes (and will then lick the room clean).
 |
| multiple wounds |
This was interesting and was carried in main by Krsy Fox, though Jon Sklaroff is charmingly sinister. Agyar has done this before – we actually meet someone who appears to be a previous victim and he talks of the many others. However as interesting and quirky as this was the ending jarred a little as it relied on a reaction from Alice that the film hadn’t built to. Beyond that the main thrust was Nietzschean, dwelling on “He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.” Overall, this was a neat little horror jaunt 6 out of 10.
The imdb page is here.
On DVD @ Amazon US
No comments:
Post a Comment