Short Film: Frank Drinks at Night

This was a short that was directed by Henry Lobdell and released in 2022. It is a scant 12:30 in length and, honestly, felt like it was a bit of fun between some buddies rather than anything else. Of course, that does not necessarily lead to decent filmmaking.

approaching an attack

Starting with Michael (Tyler Easly) approaching some form of altercation with his phone out and recording. Frank (Peyton Galbraith) looks up from the victim (George Golden) that he is feeding from and lunges at Michael, who turns and runs.

Michael runs as Frank walks, but taunts with requests to taste his blood. Nevertheless, the vampire still manages to catch Michael, but the attack is short lived as he rips off Michael’s shirt to reveal the cross beneath. Michael runs off and then stops to put on a spare vest (he happens to be carrying). This covers the cross again, he is again attacked, and once more his shirt is ripped – allowing an actual escape.

Frank lunges

Waking in (what looks like) a dorm, he quickly convinces himself that it was a dream – Frank couldn’t be hanging beneath the bed, surely…

The plot is, as you can tell, surprisingly convoluted for a simple film – though not necessarily in any good way. That said the filmmakers were having fun, I feel, which is fair enough. There is a repeated line from Michael about not knowing his parents that actually kind of works due to repetition. At the time of writing the short did not have an IMDb page.