I’ve done my best to pull the details for this Timothy Nennig short as the IMDb page seemed to have cross-pollinated with another film of the same name. Therefore, I am running with a 2019 release date for the almost 13-minute film, but stand to be corrected.
It starts with a mountain and then we see Erika (Jia Evans) and Thomas (Calvin Morie McCarthy, Mutant Vampires from the Planet Neptune & the Last Slay Ride) hiking. As they walk we see, though they do not, a severed foot tied to a tree trunk.
We go back in time and see them as Thomas is given the cancer diagnosis and prognosis – it is too progressed to operate on, the clinic would like him to remain and there are operations that might give him a year. He’d rather see the world. We also see them in their kitchen and Erika cuts her finger, he kisses the blood away… along with the garlic on the counter this absolutely is foreshadowing. He seems to be being the strong one, handling the news with gallows humour.
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| vampire emerges |
They camp and, as they sleep, the moon turns red. We see something emerge from undergrowth, her hair mated and muddy, her fingers adorned with sharp nails and fangs in her mouth. Thomas awakens and leaves the tent, walking into the red brushed woods and sitting on a fallen tree, crying. He hears something, sees a movement and seen there are three vampire women on him… but what about Erika?
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| bite |
Neatly drawn together, as a generic piece, we do have to run on faith due to the short length and therefore the reasoning for the vampires’ actions can’t be explained due to constraints. Calvin Morie McCarthy does a great turn as Thomas. The vampires seem somewhat closer to feral than not and there is some degree of Redwood, though this is necessarily less developed.
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