Honourable Mention: Bleed 4 Me

This 2011 film was directed by Joston Theney and it’s, let’s be honest, not brilliant. The premise sees a chess game between the devil and, well its never said but presumably God gave powers to the demon hunters in this, as they do have powers. The primary hunter is Ramona (Tonya L. Harris) who has taken over from Lady Jasmine (Brinke Stevens), and we also briefly meet Lady Black (Tiffany Shepis). This is a world were the good have to take an ‘ends justify the means’ stance.

Also in the plot is scientist Cassie (Mariana Evans), new in town due to a job opportunity (there is a side bar of personal issues that I won’t go into). Now the story gets confused about what the devil is up to – there is talk about him possessing (that never seems to happen, though he can speak through those he controls) and harvesting blood to make a new corporeal body (this is not why this gets an honourable mention). However, it seems he has set his sights on Cassie – though exactly why isn’t massively clear, something about the end of the earth, yadda, yadda, yadda…

hunters

What seems to happen is that he phones someone (though TV and radio can be used) and sings Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star and ‘activates’ them. You see everyone has a little bit of the devil inside them and the nursery rhyme puts them in his power… So much for free will then. Nevertheless, he is after Cassie… and yet never just phones her (you’d have thought that would be a cinch, I mean one assumes he can find who is looking for and does activate her boss), which gives Ramona chance to be involved.

Tonya L. Harris as Ramona

So why vampires? Well Ramona tells Cassie about a particular sort of Demon that is the soul of a person in Purgatory that the devil allows to return corporeally to Earth in return for some chaos and bloodshed. She describes them as a plague and then states they are vampires. And that might have been it, simply mentioned in passing. But later a soul returns (who turns out to be Ramona’s sister) and Lady Jasmine wants to (re)kill her, but she hasn’t turned yet as she must drink the blood of the one who brought her back… We don’t see her turned. So, a fleeting visitation of a (nearly) vampire.

The imdb page is here.

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