Director: Sam Mason-Bell (segment)
Release date: 2023
Contains spoilers
This portmanteau horror film harks back to the days of VHS and has a varied level of success as it explores six tales of terror – I should give a shout out to Clark who told me about the film.
As always with these sort of films, here we are concerned with the vampire segments and in this case there is one – that being the segment entitled The Red Lipped Moon, a segment shot in black and white and which carries a film noir sensibility with primary character (and narrator) Karl (Chris Mills) in the driving seat.
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| Annabella Rich as Ivy |
Karl’s friend Gordon (Ryan Carter) was killed – his pale throat ripped open. Karl determines to find out what happened to Karl, with a clue of a vial of blood. It is disingenuous to think he manages to track down Ivy (Annabella Rich), rather she comes to him with the same offer she had for Gordon – serve her and she will eventually make him immortal…
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| Chris Mills as Karl |
There isn’t a lot more to say. This was a short segment and suffered for it as there were interesting ideas that were not expanded on in a meaningful way. The undercurrent of addiction, for instance, deserved much more exploration. The black and white worked, though a stronger contrast might have been a bonus in some scenes. As always, I am scoring the vampire segment only and 3 out of 10 reflects a segment that could really have been considerably longer.
The imdb page is here.
On Demand @ Amazon US
On Demand @ Amazon UK
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