This 12-minutes film was directed by Roman Rivera and released in 2022 and is, I suspect, as much a proof of concept as it is a short in its own right.
It follows Father Rafael (Nicholas Nadashvili), a priest and vampire hunter, who is talking to camera at the head of the film. One of the primary parts of his dialogue is speaking about the use of holy water and the efficiency of the blessed liquid against vampires. There are a couple of moments within that standout as interesting but never elaborated on. One is him casually mentioning hunting for 300 plus years – so what is he? The other is the idea of bringing them all back to Hell – a strange phrasing, when more typically the phrasing would be sending, rather than bringing.
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| Olegs Vlaskenko as Dracula |
The film then has him walking into a church and being attacked by a vampire whilst another watches from the altar dais on which he is enthroned. The watcher is, from the credits, Dracula (Olegs Vlaskenko). He despatches the vampire and turns to Dracula and the film then goes back in time a year, to a vampire hunting monk (Marvic Pascual), which hasn’t much context. Then to an exorcism, which Raphael enters addressing the demon by name and forcing out with some punches to the possessed girl’s face and pressing a rosary to her head. He then goes to where the monk had been…
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| vampire |
So, not a lot of narrative, rather hints of story and depiction of fighting, and I have to mention the sound. Some of the dialogue (with vocal effects) sounded dubbed and said dialogue, plus some of the sounds, where too loud in the mix. As a proof of concept, however, this likely works as a way to draw in budget to make a better version. However, as stands, it is on Fawesome TV currently.
The imdb page is here.
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