An odd one. This is a short film that comes in at just under 40-minutes. According to IMDb it is just 11 minutes (and is just called Mircalla, without the sub-title). I have seen it on YouTube in German with embedded English subs but currently it seems to be that with an overlayer of English dialogue over the original German. It was also edited for the anthology DVD Evil Deeds 3. The film dates to 2008 and was directed by Christian Jürs (Juers on IMDb).
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| bad fangs |
Nevertheless, it is a short vampire film and whilst the fangs are rubbish and the narrative basic, it has an interesting lore aspect. The film opens part of that at the head when it says that vampires are not like the fiction and that there are Queen vampires and drone vampires.
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| friends |
Laura (Neele Kurt) rings Emma (Anna Carlzon) to arrange meeting soon. We then see Laura with Jessica (Nicole Schneider) and Tanja (Elisabeth Juers). They mention new neighbour Mircalla (Annika Altwig) – joking that it sounds like an East German name. Jessica says that she saw her and said hello but she never acknowledged her and there was something funny with her eyes. Tanja has to leave – she passes the strange Mircalla on her way out.
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| Annika Altwig as Mircalla |
At home Tanja reads about vampires and the book suggests that Queen vampires do not age, heal incredibly quickly, regenerate limbs and are practically immortal – immune to stakes, sunlight, crucifixes and holy water. They can be killed however, by having them drink the blood of another Queen Vampire. If they die so do their drones. Back at Jessica’s, Mircalla has hypnotised Jessica in the laundry room and also bites Laura and turns her into a drone.
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| attack |
Tanja returns and finds Jessica dead and Laura vampirised. Mircalla bites her and screams, dropping dead. Tanja – secretly a vampire queen who wants to die – bites Mircalla before her body vanishes… And this should be the end (we are very early in the run time) but Laura has not actually died (as a drone) and Emma is drawn over and then Laura is a blood sacrifice to allow the spirit of Mircalla to possess Emma and go after their other friends. Luckily Mircalla (as Emma) is vulnerable to being killed by more conventional means until she merges fully with her new body…
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| eye mojo |
So, that takes in the interesting lore (around the Queen and drones, as well as the vampiric possession). The film itself is very amateur, though it has a certain earnest charm to it, and the fangs are blooming awful. Eye mojo is the weapon of choice for this vampire – essentially ensuring that each person they go against is quickly hypnotised (signified by flashing eyes).
The imdb page is here.
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