Directed by Curtis Everitt, released in 2024, and coming in at just over 46 minutes, this is ostensibly a sequel to Everitt’s Queen Dracula although, as Queen Dracula (Mel Heflin, Katherine) makes clear at the head it is for those in to “cheesy B horror sequels, where none of the original people come back and the continuity from the original does not matter.”
Now, this looks a lot nicer, in a photography sort of way, to the previous film and Queen Dracula is right in her description. However, it is also interminably long for a short, in a world where pacing is something that happens to other people’s films.
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It follows Claude (Curtis Everitt), a recently divorced man with joint custody of his son – though because he lives out of the way he rarely sees him. It starts with him relaying how down he is and that seeing home videos of his son helps – which is then followed by said video of son on play equipment that just goes on. We then watch him at a (deliberately) excruciating speed dating.
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He gets a house flyer through the post and goes to see it. This has the film then follow him around the house, unaware of Queen Dracula who appears in the background watching. Eventually she makes herself known and shows him round the same rooms we just watched him go through until revealing her true nature and attacking him. Fin. The whole thing could have been cut down to a 5-minute sequence and lost nothing but gained pace.
The imdb page is here.
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