The Gist:
According to the rules of vampirism (as presented in the movie) our main vampire guy must find a lover to spend eternity with before his hundredth 'deathday' or else he and all those he 'turned' will die, or whatever the term is for when an undead creature croaks. He only has a few days to decide between a young woman eager to become murderous creature of the night, or a clueless young man who doesn't even know vampires exist. Oh, who are we kidding, this is a gay horror flick, of course he's going to choose the pretty young man. A choice that will have (obvious) consequences.
Comments with what amount to major spoilers, but don't really matter:
Seemingly there is a lot happening here, from several (boring) murders, to roommate angst, to the sudden odd injection of the first few minutes of a bisexual porn scene before the movie finally reaches a climax where for a couple minutes it almost, nearly achieves actual action; but in truth, there's barely any story here. Pretty much all that happens is a vampire chooses a twink as his new boyfriend and there's a disagreement regarding if he could have made a better choice. The end.
Granted there's an hour of material before "the end" happens, but most of that hour is dominated by terrible acting, horrible dialogue, scenes referencing Twilight, shirtless sunbathing vampires, and weird story conventions where our murderous vampires are treated as "good guys" because they're attractive and have great abs or something.
Unusually the expected 'sex equals death' horror movie trope scene involves a bisexual threesome, with a young woman and two guys who for whatever reason decide to get it on in the middle of a hiking trail. It's an odd scene. Almost explicit, at least compared to the way sex is treated in the rest of the movie. There might be an interesting idea here that transgressive sex in a gay movie means sex involving a woman. Then again there could have been no more thought to it than just allowing the two actors willing to go full frontal nude an opportunity to do so.
I'm not a big fan of the horror genre and it is possible that I'm just not "getting" the movie. That it is more than just a poorly made, cheap grab at cash from gay fans of Twilight style pretty boy vampires, who presumably would fork over money for a flash of tight abs and a couple of visible semi flaccid penises. I doubt it though.
Women:
A couple, though both barely have lines
People of color:
A couple
Gratuitous nudity:
Yes
- Director: Charlie Vaughn
- Writer(s): Jeremiah Cambell (screenplay), David S. Sterling, Jeremiah Cambell (Story)
- 70 min
- IMDB
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