Honourable Mention: All Wrapped Up

This was a low budget anthology film directed by Jason Liquori and released in 2007. It opens with Debbie Rochon as herself, negotiating with the production company’s mascot and directing us to a catalogue of films. The film is then made up of four segments that concentrate primarily on mummies – a bog mummy in the first, an Egyptian one in the second, an Aztec one in the third and, interestingly, a reinvigorated, cryogenic man in the final one. But as well as this we get brief moments of vampires, the Aztec mummy itself has a vampiric trope, there's a succubus and we even get an implied werewolf.

the succubus

It is in the third story, The Jaguar’s bite where we start with our vampires and more vampiric elements. The film starts with a couple in need of some guidance, one feels. She (Marcienne Dwyer) assumes he (Brian Prost) is having an affair but he wakes more tired than before he goes to bed and hires a paranormal PI, Stewart (Jason Liquori), to prove he is being visited by a succubus (Gina Markette). Stewart manages to see it through a video and, after a little tussle, gets rid by spraying water on her – not holy water, mind, but mineral water as though he is dousing an oversexed animal.

a vampire

The film goes on to him being hired to track down a stolen Aztec mummy (le Nguyen) – the museum believing that it was not a simple robbery/homicide as the police believe. The mummy was an Aztec warrior who would drink the blood of his enemies to take their strength and became an incarnation of a god. To defeat him, his enemies drained his blood. So the mummy is draining the blood of new enemies (those who disturbed his tomb) and that’s our trope. The vampires (Alberto Giovannelli and Christina Daoust) are led by monster hunter Rose Lenoire (Brunhilda Zekthi) to the mummy where one of them drains it (killing it) then explodes because he contained dead blood.

Debbie Rochon as Mistress Misty

There is a further vampire in final segment Milleniman in which, to try and save his daughter (Chanel Bagwell) badly injured in the previous segment, businessman Sebastian Fairweather (Kevin White) is tricked into being a guinea pig for a cryogenic experiment. He is accidentally woken a millennia later where the human race has been decimated in wars and the survivors are physically weakened. He is wanted by the Mayor, Mistress Misty (Debbie Rochon), as he may hold the key to some of the medical issues they face – she, it is revealed at the end, is not human but a vampire.

the Aztec Mummy

And that’s it, we get a blood drinking mummy – it is suggested that spilt blood revived it but the blood drinking is mentioned as an M.O. and the dialogue makes it clear that it isn’t a vampire (in the traditional sense), a moment of an energy devouring succubus and three fleeting visitations of actual vampires. The film is straight to video and some of the effects are knowingly (or, at least I hope it was knowingly) terrible. Possibly the most interesting idea was that the man trapped in cryogenics was a mummy also, giving that monster a sci-fi edge.

The imdb page is here.