Sean Rourke’s 2022 short film comes in at roughly the 18-minute mark (the YouTube release is longer as it has additional material at the end). It imagines a world in which Mina was freed from Dracula as per the novel but she also managed to resurrect the vampire Lucy (Megan Rees, Vamp U). Now, in 2022, Mina is a vampire hunter and Lucy is a master vampire.
The film sees Mina visiting her great-many times-grandson Patrick (Jack Conway) who is dying and is the last of her familial line. Meanwhile a group of vampire hunters have located a vampire lair but it just happens to be Lucy’s. Lucy is now a thoroughly modern vampire, with cams through the lair, remote fired guns and a nice line in zombies to protect the lair. However, she is still a supernatural creature and is vulnerable until the sun sets – in 30-minutes (one wonders why they have left it right until sunset to raid, after all they are professionals, but we don’t get the backstory that might explain).
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| Lucy in coffin |
I rather liked the use of lore in this – especially the use of a rose (ok its meant to be wild rose) to seal the vampire in her coffin. As for Mina’s immortal human condition, the film does touch on it but reveals it to be a mystery. It feels like the start of a whole thing and the two characters worked for the most part. Where it struggled for me, character-wise, was in the fact that vocally the two characters were clearly American and yes I get that accents change, but one expected the two Victorian English* ladies to sound less colonial. That said, better for the actresses to use their own accents unless they can do another accent that passes.
*I say English but the film actually codes Mina as Irish.
The film was slickly shot and looks really nice and I really would like to see where Sean Rourke could take this concept. There is plenty of scope within the storyline and the story layers some really nice ideas in, which I can’t touch on as they spoil a bit too much. Overall, this is a neat short and worth taking some time out to watch.
The imdb page is here.
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| friends reunited |
The film was slickly shot and looks really nice and I really would like to see where Sean Rourke could take this concept. There is plenty of scope within the storyline and the story layers some really nice ideas in, which I can’t touch on as they spoil a bit too much. Overall, this is a neat short and worth taking some time out to watch.
The imdb page is here.
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