Director: Tatiana Wisniewski (segment)
Release date: 2022
Contains spoilers
Pulled together by Mark Mos, this is one of a group of anthology films released in 2022 based on shorts from various LA film festivals. Each anthology has a host, in this case the clown masked Worth Each Penny (Kristen Lundberg) who, in all fairness, was really annoying but mercifully not on screen for long.
The segment that interests us is a rather short (11-minutes) piece entitled Fresh. It follows philosophy student Emily (Lestonja Diaz), whose grandmother, Magda (J.C. Henning), has passed and she finds a strange set of words and a pendant and, having read them and worn the pendant, starts to not really wish to eat (food that is).
She is, however, attracted to the blood that is shed by her friend Lisa (Mika Shepherd) from an accidental cut (that seems to get more than you’d imagine on Emily’s hand) and also hallucinates bathing in blood. She starts to see Magda and the grandmother informs her that she has performed the ritual (whether she intended to or not) and brought on the change by tasting blood. She needs to feed and Emily now has to decide whether she can face the moral dilemma of taking a life in order to live…
This was a simple little short but it had a great, very brief, blood bathing scene. Unfortunately, I felt it pulled its punch at the denouement and could have been somewhat more explicit. That said, it was solid enough and I liked the idea of accidentally performing a ritual to become a vampire. The score is for the segment only but the film was worth a watch for lovers of shorts/anthologies with a nice collection curated within. 5 out of 10.
The imdb page is here.
On Demand @ Amazon US
On Demand @ Amazon UK
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| J.C. Henning as Magda |
The segment that interests us is a rather short (11-minutes) piece entitled Fresh. It follows philosophy student Emily (Lestonja Diaz), whose grandmother, Magda (J.C. Henning), has passed and she finds a strange set of words and a pendant and, having read them and worn the pendant, starts to not really wish to eat (food that is).
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| taste blood |
She is, however, attracted to the blood that is shed by her friend Lisa (Mika Shepherd) from an accidental cut (that seems to get more than you’d imagine on Emily’s hand) and also hallucinates bathing in blood. She starts to see Magda and the grandmother informs her that she has performed the ritual (whether she intended to or not) and brought on the change by tasting blood. She needs to feed and Emily now has to decide whether she can face the moral dilemma of taking a life in order to live…
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| bathing in blood |
This was a simple little short but it had a great, very brief, blood bathing scene. Unfortunately, I felt it pulled its punch at the denouement and could have been somewhat more explicit. That said, it was solid enough and I liked the idea of accidentally performing a ritual to become a vampire. The score is for the segment only but the film was worth a watch for lovers of shorts/anthologies with a nice collection curated within. 5 out of 10.
The imdb page is here.
On Demand @ Amazon US
On Demand @ Amazon UK
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