Short Film: Vampire Siblings

At just over an hour this is close to being a feature, but the Kinigra Deon created vehicle is a web serial with the first season cut into a movie (there are three more movies of seasons 2 to 4 currently available). They seem to be part of an incredibly prolific output by Kinigra Deon but do not have, at time of writing, an IMDb page that I could locate.

vegan blood

The film follows Seraph who is just getting home as things begin. Mom has left a note about vegan blood being left in the fridge (by vegan, non-human, veg supplement and not the blood of a vegan). It isn’t appetising by all account. We soon learn that Seraph is a hybrid, mom is a vampire and dad is a human, though her two older sisters are both vampires. They are less than impressed with the vegan option.

the sisters

A knock on the door and the appearance of Seraph’s boyfriend Roman throws her a loop – he has flowers but she wasn’t expecting a visit (or had ever had one, one guesses). The sisters smell his warm blood and are downstairs and inviting him in, with him ignoring Seraph’s desire for him to leave. They try and feed him an elixir (to make feeding from him easier) and he eventually is about to be food when mom gets home and rescues him, wiping his memory.

wolf out

The sisters are grounded (behind a mystical barrier) and get their cousin to release them when mom goes back out (calling to the cousin by telepathy). Unfortunately Roman has turned up at the door again, wanting to celebrate his 16th birthday with Seraph, and is in danger, again, when the moon comes out and he turns into a werewolf and escapes. The film, to this point, seemed quite Young Adult sitcom but takes a turn here.

Seraph vamps

A world is drawn around the film of vampires and werewolves and a thinly held treaty between the races. Roman is condemned at the next full moon to become a wolf permanently, as the only way to prevent this is killing a vampire. That Roman seemed to know nothing of his nature, despite a werewolf society in the area and his mom being one was a plot point that might have been answered within the narrative. Seraph is also told, just as she starts to turn, that hybrid vampires become full vampire around 16.

mom and Seraph

This was really ambitious and whilst there were some strange choices (an old person, as a throwaway character, in an obvious mask rather than just getting an older actor, for instance) the less successful choices were still down to a commendable ambition and there was plenty that did work. The undertones of dealing with puberty and bullying were interesting and the full movie is available for free at YouTube.