Lisa was a short film directed by Jacob Pinger and was on week 2 of the 2021 Killer Valley Horror Film Festival. Whilst the entity within the film might be identified as one of a couple of things, there certainly is blood drinking and I think it deserves a place here at TMtV.
So, it starts with Mandy (Ava Acres, Hotel Transylvania 2, Adventure Time: Stakes & American Horror Story: Hotel) who is recording a video for social media from her new home. She hears raised voices between mom (Stephanie Burden) and dad (Keith Edie), and mom comes in and tells her off for recording on moving in day.
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| with the book |
As the story develops it transpires that mom had an affair and it was discovered when Mandy walked in on her mid-coitus with her lover. This has precipitated a move of States as a way of trying to fix things but it is clear there is no love lost between parents. Mandy has found an old book, which she intends to “arts and crafts” into a jewellery box, admitting to camera that she is unaware of what the book is about, or even what language it is in. She reads a line out… we all know where that is likely to go.
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She thinks something bites her, but when dad looks there is no blood or marks, Her dreams are disturbed and she, through research, discovers that the previous occupants of the house included a teen girl, Lisa (Isabella Acres), who was into the occult and who killed herself. It seems that Lisa is back but there are a few interpretations… The reading from the book brings Evil Dead to mind but the similarity stops there and Lisa does not act like a deadite.
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| feeding |
It might be that Lisa is a demon, however, in the previous girl’s form and summoned by the passage from the book. Equally, as we have the bite, of course, and we have her sucking the blood from a cut Mandy is encouraged to make on her arm, Lisa may be a vampiric ghost and we do have the oft used connection between suicide and vampirism. However, as the bite couldn’t be seen after the fact (and as mom suggests she is a teen ‘attention seeking’) one could read this as not supernatural at all, with Lisa being a projected aspect of Mandy’s psyche as she moves from happy vlogger to withdrawn and self-harming, as a way of coping with her parents’ marital problems and the ‘punishment’ of being moved from her friends due to her catching her mother’s indiscretions.
The imdb page is here.
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Can't remember if you reviewed it but thought I'd mention just in case that Vampire Vienna will be debuting on YouTube for free in 12 hours, looks like a very cheesy German comedy, but I'll be giving it a watch anyway.
https://youtu.be/rJ6haEAfBmY for when it goes live.
Balthizaur, no I haven't reviewed it and greatly appreciate you linking it here :)
After having watched Vampire Vienna, I feel like I should apologise for getting you to sit through that haha
So I'll recommend a bit of a hidden gem on YouTube to make up for it, it's a Spanish Dracula TV movie from 2004. Hope this makes up for it.
https://youtu.be/Zm0Kfqg8ctk
Balthizaur never apologise for bringing vampire vehicles to my attention - no matter the quality :) It's a pity it didn't run with English subs, I'd have looked to review then but I can't score if I couldn't follow the dialogue.
That said I'm happy (ok, that's perhaps too loaded a word) to see any vampire film, whether subbed or not :)
Vikas - please don't try and link to other sites without agreement or unless the site is expressly both safe and on topic.
As it was, the link you put was broken anyway, but further infringements will simply be deleted without comment
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