Cast: Zak Kilberg, Maya Parish
USA
Plot
Jacob a night security guard is not very well. His doctor thinks he might be suffering from anaemia, but Jacob is not so sure. He gets badly burned when he goes out into sunlight, and also he is hungry all the time. But none of the nationally void microwave meals he heats up satisfy him. Then he buys a steak, and he finds it is the blood left in the packaging which excites him, not the steak.Eventually he hustles a butcher into selling him blood, which he drinks from a takeout coffee cup. So it's all sort of adding up too, Could he be a vampire?
Don't read further if you're worried about spoilers. He is a vampire. After much standing about looking like a catalogue model waiting for a bus, Jacob decides blood from the butcher is okay but doesn’t really hit the spot. He finds a fence for human blood, and slowly he learns how to be a vampire. But after he is implicated in the murder of a woman in a car park, he also begins to understand what being a vampire means.
His journey into vampirism is further complicated by a Mary with whom he begins a relationship, but he isn't sure she will accept his ''illness.''
Review
A bit on the tedious side, lots of wondering and sitting about by Jacob looking sensitive and deep. It takes him ages to figure out he is a vampire and it's never explained how he became one. It's certainly a different take in the low budget horror genre - low key realism - but the drama is predictable and there is no tension or excitement to keep audience attention.The characters don't feel very real and are generally unlikeable. The script seems to always take the next logical step, rather than find an original or unexpected way to tell the story, the effect is predictability.
Nothing interesting in the setting or directorial style (except the last bloody shot which seems to be almost from a different more exciting film).
The acting is fine, the story is okay, but the film has nothing really to say.
Low budget. Directorial debut for the director.
2 out of 5 stars.
