Short Film: Sangre De Cristo: The Trilogy of Terror

This is a short 2018 animation, directed by Pasquale Encell and Steve Encell, which features three stories and comes in at roughly 18 minutes.

The animation is described (on Amazon) as displaying “different styles of the very cool Thai style Anime” and was, I would say, quite ‘motion comic’ and the art functional. The stories themselves are from the Sangre De Cristo vampire hunter universe. The first two feature a gunslinging vampire hunter named Jack and are set in a ‘Wild West’ setting, the third is modern day.

The first opens with a voiceover from Jack suggesting that within 24 hours of arriving at Sangre De Cristo he has killed 4 gunmen and 1 vampire – and he didn’t even know that vampires existed 24 hours ago. He notes that he is now drinking vampire blood and he can’t imagine life without it (so presumably it is addictive). Jack, his dog, a priest and a Native American woman are about to enter a vampire’s mansion.

vampire hunters from story 1

If we discover that a heart shot will kill a vampire, it is in the second story that we discover that neither beheading nor sunlight will kill a vampire. Indeed, we see a beheaded vampire continue to function happily until its torso is staked. In this second story Jack and (presumably another hunter) Iron Lotus are raiding an outlaw hideout to steal the vampire blood the outlaws have (unintentionally) acquired.

the feed

The last story was the most interesting. A modern day, rich vampire uses social media to groom young ladies and lure them, where they can be kidnapped. Once kidnapped they are restrained with shock collars but treated to organic food, purified water and purified air, for the length of time it takes for them to have two periods, so that they will be a pure (and more tasty) meal. The latest victim is a virgin…

fangs

The last story really piqued my interest but generally there were issues with some of the plotting (fire arrows are ok but a metal arrowhead wouldn’t be used, for instance) and we needed to see more around the other two stories, the characters and how they interrelated. The voice acting was functional and no more and some of the dialogue was simplistic. All that said it was worth a watch, especially for story #3.

At the time of review, I can’t find an IMDb page.

On Demand @ Amazon US

On Demand @ Amazon UK