Deathcember is an anthology of short shorts, released in 2020, that looks to put the horror back into the holiday season and is based around an advent calendar type of graphic to lock the segments together. The reason for listing this as an Honourable Mention is because the segment that I have in mind is not definitively vampire (though it is as good an explanation as any) and is also one of the shortest shorts in the film.
Entitled Joy to the Girls and directed by Sonia Escolano it starts with a man (Jose Corpas) who has received an invitation to a Christmas party in a hotel. He gets into the room and three women are stood there (played by Haydée Lysander, Claudia Bouza and Laura Ballester). One comes forward and draws him to them, music is put on, they dance round him and give him a glass of wine…
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| the three |
The wine is drugged. He awakens knelt over a receptacle, bound with a gag of masking tape and an inverted pentagram drawn on his chest. The women stand around him. Now, they could be witches of course, what with Macbeth offering the rule of three as much as Stoker offered the same rule for vampire women, and there is a pentagram involved, of course. They all have knives and slit his throat…
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| drinking blood |
So why have I gone vampire on this? Well because we see them scooping blood in their hands and drinking the spilt blood. Of course, we have to ask, is he the only one they invited?
This was short, sweet and to the point. It is plausibly a vampire short. The anthology itself was worthwhile. Be warned, there are a couple of shorts hidden in the credits. The imdb page is here.
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