This is a 2024 film directed by Louis Mandylor and follows a special ops group pulled together to do a mission during the second world war and, of course there is a supernatural threat, betrayal and such shenanigans. It starts however, with a black and white scene in 1928 with a man (Willy Zogo) who has been injured on the neck and Murphy (Jonathan Rhys Meyers, the Mortal Instruments: City of Bones & Dracula – Season 1). They have a found a box of vials which are shown coloured in the black and white.
Cut forward to 1945 and Murphy runs a bar. A man, Richter (Louis Mandylor), enters and orders meat and booze trying to pay with some form of antiquated coins. He wars a generic black coat with SS symbols on the lapels. Murphy recognises him for what he is and yet still allows a couple of patrons/bouncers to fight with him. Eventually he is about to bite someone, and Murphy suggests if he bites their neck he’ll blow his head off.
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| stabity stab |
Enter the Reverend (Quinton 'Rampage' Jackson) who takes a seat and whiskey. Richter says he knows who he is, and then mentions his father before running at him (there is a blurry effect when the vampire moves fast). Without getting up, the Reverend sticks a sword through the vampire, and then manoeuvres him to a bathroom where he extracts his fangs with pliers. Leaving the bathroom there are two US forces agents (in rather ill-fitting uniforms) waiting for him. They sent the vampire to get his attention – why is never clear – and want the Reverend to do a mission for them, in return they have information they’ll declassify about his father.
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| Louis Mandylor as Richter |
Richter reappears later, whilst the Reverend is on the mission, trying to steal the vials from Murphy, who stakes him – though not through the heart as he wants him to suffer. He ends up letting Richter leave, shoots his leg as he exits the building and allows him to burn in the sun. A black and white flashback shows him with the man – who was the Reverand’s father. The bandage on his neck shows he was bitten by a vampire due to the two points of blood oozing. Murphy gives him a vial of spirit elixir and suggests it’ll hold off transformation for a month. He promises to watch the Reverend’s back as the man leaves, to lose himself out there.
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| in the sun |
And that’s it – a fleeting vampire visitation of a nazi vampire (so coded by the SS badges on a coat that is clearly not a German officer issue) and introduced to give a bit of a muddled backstory around the Reverend, Murphy and the Rev’s missing father (who ended up at the island the mission takes place on, which is home to werewolves and we hear they turned him to try and help with his sickness – that might indicate a werewolf/vampire hybrid but we never see him). A bite turns, staking and sunlight kills, presumably they struggle hunting without fangs (that tends to be the trope when extracted, though it is pretty senseless as, well, knives…). A fleeting visitation.
The imdb page is here.
On Demand @ Amazon US
On Demand @ Amazon UK
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