Honourable Mention: Abnormal Attraction

Directed by Michael Leavy, this film was released in 2018 and runs on a premise that monsters and folklore creatures are real and living openly amongst humans. Through this it touches on racism and, more openly, on sexuality but, mostly it is a fantasy flick that aims towards comedy and a little bit of action.

It follows a group of protagonists and antagonists who are interconnected in ways they don’t understand and starts proper with Dr. Stanley Cole (Bruce Davison, Corbin Nash, The Librarian: Curse of the Judas Chalice & A (Schizophrenic) Love Story) leaving the hospital for the day. His office has 12-step posters and it pushes us to assume (correctly) that he’s a recovering alcoholic.

Nicole Balsam as Alyssa

He is approached by colleague Dr Nick Lane (Nathan Reid), who has just argued with his fiancée, Alyssa (Nicole Balsam), and later we discover it is because he has made an excuse not to be at home that evening. He is meant to be leading an AA meeting and he persuades Cole to take his place. Our first vampire moment is a mention in passing at the AA meeting. The meeting itself befuddles Cole as he thinks it is an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting but it is an Abnormal Attraction meeting, a self-help group for humans obsessively attracted to non-humans.

in the hut

The actual vampiric moment is during a battle at a non-human camp, when Alyssa (who, unknown to Nick, has a burning hatred of monsters) leads an attack on the camp. She doesn’t know that Nick was kidnapped by Andy, the Abominable Snowman (Michael Barra), and taken to the camp. He had chains, making the non-humans believe he is a monster hunter but they were for himself as, unknown to Alyssa, he is a werewolf and there is a full moon that night. During the fight Alyssa enters a hut.

Steven Della Salla as Vincent

Inside a man is tied up, as a vampire, Vincent (Steven Della Salla), stands nearby. The vampire says “I want to suck your…” well its not blood he’s aiming to suck, put it that way. Alyssa repeatedly shoots the vampire, much to the chagrin of the tied up human – who was a willing participant. Of course bullets are not going to keep a good vampire down and later we see him emerge from the hut, shading his eyes from the sun but otherwise not worse for wear in the daylight. And that’s it, a mention in passing and a fleeting visitation.

The imdb page is here.