A nine-minute short film directed by Hunter Woelfle and released in 2023, this is one that certainly has acting (or more accurately dressing) as a vampire but you can read the creature within as vampire also – though this is through subtleties.
It starts with a girl (Isabel Oliver Marcus) flossing and cleaning her teeth before doing her goth style makeup and then putting in fangs. She walks down the street and is unnerved by a car that seems to slow but it eventually passes her. Then she notices bright eyes flashing in a dark pathway.
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| Isabel Oliver Marcus as the girl |
One owner of the eyes comes forward and it is a cat, which she pets. The other set doesn’t come close and eventually she leaves. After she does, we see the eyes rise in the darkness, as though the owner was shapeshifting into something taller. She goes to a party but is sat by herself, at one point spotting shining eyes outside. She leaves and sees the earlier cat dead on the pavement, one if its fangs seems to be missing. She gets home and ready for bed but there are noises that are spooking her…
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| fang |
As well as the eye shine and potential shapeshifting (and the fact that the film concentrates on fangs) there is also some shadow play during the denouement. This was an interesting, ambiguous little short, which relied on atmosphere rather than dialogue. The imdb page is here.
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