As I like to say, vampires get everywhere and they are the first thing we see in this 2004 film, directed by Jacob Gentry… almost. We actually first see a woman in a warehouse and get the sounds of bats. A man comes at her, grabbing her neck and pushing her to a wall. “Give in to the pleasures of the night,” he snarls as his fangs become apparent before he is staked from behind.
The woman’s rescuer is Jade (Clementine Ford), a vampire slayer who then fights several vampires with moves that include a double dusting. It’s all very impressive but as the camera pans so far out that we see that this is on a TV screen and being shown in a bar. The actress playing Jade is Agnes Shelby and she is one of the primary characters in this exploration of several interconnected lives including a drunk office worker (Christopher Rydell), a rock band, a teenage runaway (Sara Stanton) and a drunken evangelical (David Carradine, Killer X, Sundown: the Vampire in Retreat & the Last Sect).
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The show is not the focus for the story, in many respects it isn’t even the focus for Agnes’ story, but it does come on a few times through the film and we discover that the character Jade may well be a vampire slayer but she is also a vampire herself and that the evil vampire Victor (Justin Welborn, Psychopathia Sexualis & Siren) is trying to get her to turn on the humans and work with him, claiming he loves her. Too bad he killed her parents. So that is that – perhaps a tad more than a fleeting visitation and, in terms of the world we are in, literally acting like a vampire in a TV show. The actual film is an interesting, non-linear, narratively strange slice of several peoples lives and the ties that bind them.
The imdb page is here.
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