This black comedy about an author of romantic vampire novels with an unexpected visitor is sucked dry of dramatic tensionHome Alone meets The Lost Boys in this trashy half-way entertaining Christmas vampire movie from director Sean Nichols Lynch; it’s a black comedy with some silly splattery gore.
Lynch makes the most of a limited budget and his self-aware script is sometimes genuinely funny, too.
Still, you wouldn’t exactly call it light of touch and the actors struggle a bit with the comic register.
Some scenes leave you wondering: is this intentionally naff or just a bit wooden?The setting is Lake Tahoe a couple of nights before Christmas.
Dennice Cisneros plays Olivia, an unpublished author of romantic vampire novels who lives alone; her kitchen drawer is stuffed full of rejection letters.
Any jobbing writer will sympathise with Olivia’s decision-making when she rescues a bat that turns
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