Director: Trent Harris
Release date: 2022
Contains spoilers
I did try with this sci-fi, dystopian vampire film but I just couldn’t divine anything particularly coherent out of it. The film sets itself for a sequel, so might have been keeping its powder dry for that, but over all I just didn’t think it allowed itself to be followed particularly well.
It seems to be in a world where the vampire-apocalypse has taken place, but the end credit area further suggests this is with an eye on Covid-19. There was a lot of inter-personal politics and double-crossing going on but this wasn’t necessarily meaningful either.
So, there is a news report at the beginning were the newscaster suggests that, following attacks on humans, President Harris has broken the Treaty of Clement (not delved into) and handed control of troops to General O’Brien (Dojo Turnbull). People are advised to stay in their homes… the channel seems to be hijacked by O’Brien. The film cuts to a man, in the woods, who has to keep moving because nowhere is safe. He reaches a house and enters it because, obviously, he just said he had to keep moving! It is suggested that he has the last sample of Renegade 43 (whatever that is). He is attacked by a vampire – there seems to be normal ones and feral ones; the ferals are called davvers.
At a secret camp Silver 5 are being trained – O’Brien’s elite vampire hunters one assumes. Two recruits, Cortez (Christina Fuentes) and Granger (Joe Swift), are in class and are rather negative about it all – given the vampires are faster and stronger. The teacher shows off the latest weapon that will paralyse a vampire (or, set on high dose, kill it) but they can’t have one whilst in training. Jim (Anthony Porrey) enters the room late, cocky as he is O’Brien’s son. Class is dismissed but he has one of the new guns and suggests they go out to hunt a vampire.
Maya (Mary Tabor) goes through the woods to meet her adopted father (he is the head of a vampire family and she is his adopted vampire daughter, the other children would appear to be his and so vampires, presumably, can reproduce). After the meeting there is a scene where she fights with some davvers, then is shot with the human’s vamp-tranquillizer. Jim argues with his fellow recruits and shoots Cortez in the head. Maya is (very quickly) able to move again and kills Jim and a further vampire, Ellis (Wes Holland, Vampire CEO) gets involved. Maya, later, can’t find records of Ellis.
The film then meanders through plots and politics. O’Brien has clear anger issues and likes to punch his wife Stephanie (Samantha Wesley Schanz). Details are given of O’Brien losing his son and daughter from a previous marriage and believing them dead (who turn out to be Maya and Ellis) and him releasing a genocidal compound, which I think ended up being behind a massive population wipeout and the creation of the davvers. But the film struggled to carry me with it as a viewer and I’ll be fair and suggest that it might have tried to explain everything in its narrative and the fault might be with me, but I was genuinely bored by what I was seeing and so may not have taken the nuances in. The film, quite simply, lost me. For me 2.5 out of 10, you may think this unfair if it held you better than it held me.
The imdb page is here.
On Demand @ Amazon US
On Demand @ Amazon UK
I did try with this sci-fi, dystopian vampire film but I just couldn’t divine anything particularly coherent out of it. The film sets itself for a sequel, so might have been keeping its powder dry for that, but over all I just didn’t think it allowed itself to be followed particularly well.
It seems to be in a world where the vampire-apocalypse has taken place, but the end credit area further suggests this is with an eye on Covid-19. There was a lot of inter-personal politics and double-crossing going on but this wasn’t necessarily meaningful either.
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So, there is a news report at the beginning were the newscaster suggests that, following attacks on humans, President Harris has broken the Treaty of Clement (not delved into) and handed control of troops to General O’Brien (Dojo Turnbull). People are advised to stay in their homes… the channel seems to be hijacked by O’Brien. The film cuts to a man, in the woods, who has to keep moving because nowhere is safe. He reaches a house and enters it because, obviously, he just said he had to keep moving! It is suggested that he has the last sample of Renegade 43 (whatever that is). He is attacked by a vampire – there seems to be normal ones and feral ones; the ferals are called davvers.
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| Dojo Turnbull as O'Brien |
At a secret camp Silver 5 are being trained – O’Brien’s elite vampire hunters one assumes. Two recruits, Cortez (Christina Fuentes) and Granger (Joe Swift), are in class and are rather negative about it all – given the vampires are faster and stronger. The teacher shows off the latest weapon that will paralyse a vampire (or, set on high dose, kill it) but they can’t have one whilst in training. Jim (Anthony Porrey) enters the room late, cocky as he is O’Brien’s son. Class is dismissed but he has one of the new guns and suggests they go out to hunt a vampire.
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| Wes Holland as Ellis |
Maya (Mary Tabor) goes through the woods to meet her adopted father (he is the head of a vampire family and she is his adopted vampire daughter, the other children would appear to be his and so vampires, presumably, can reproduce). After the meeting there is a scene where she fights with some davvers, then is shot with the human’s vamp-tranquillizer. Jim argues with his fellow recruits and shoots Cortez in the head. Maya is (very quickly) able to move again and kills Jim and a further vampire, Ellis (Wes Holland, Vampire CEO) gets involved. Maya, later, can’t find records of Ellis.
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| Mary Tabor as Maya |
The film then meanders through plots and politics. O’Brien has clear anger issues and likes to punch his wife Stephanie (Samantha Wesley Schanz). Details are given of O’Brien losing his son and daughter from a previous marriage and believing them dead (who turn out to be Maya and Ellis) and him releasing a genocidal compound, which I think ended up being behind a massive population wipeout and the creation of the davvers. But the film struggled to carry me with it as a viewer and I’ll be fair and suggest that it might have tried to explain everything in its narrative and the fault might be with me, but I was genuinely bored by what I was seeing and so may not have taken the nuances in. The film, quite simply, lost me. For me 2.5 out of 10, you may think this unfair if it held you better than it held me.
The imdb page is here.
On Demand @ Amazon US
On Demand @ Amazon UK
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