Vampire Clan
| Vampire Clan | |
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| Directed by | John Webb |
| Produced by |
Elie Cohn Keith Walley John Langley (executive producer) |
| Written by | Aaron Pope |
| Starring |
Drew Fuller Alexandra Breckenridge Timothy Lee DePriest Marina Black Kelly Kruger Richard Gilliland Larry Dirk Stacy Hogue Spencer Redford |
| Music by | Guy Harrington |
Release dates |
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Running time | 87 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Vampire Clan is a Drama/Horror movie, released in 2002, directed by John Webb. The film received its premiere screening at the 2002 Dances With Films Festival.[1]
Plot
Based on the horrific true story of the 1996 Vampire Killings in Florida,[2] the film follows the police investigation of five Goth teenagers who claimed to be real-life vampires. They drank each other's blood and embraced the occult. But they were also ordinary, middle-class kids looking for an outlet for their angst and morbid curiosity. Somewhere along their road trip to New Orleans, their fantasy life became all too real. Now the police have two savagely beaten corpses on their hands... parents of the teenaged vampires. What really happened? And how did these normal kids become such monsters?
Cast
- Drew Fuller .... Roderick 'Rod' Justin Farrell
- Alexandra Breckenridge .... Charity Lynn Keesee
- Timothy Lee DePriest .... Howard Scott Anderson
- Marina Black .... Dana Lynn Cooper
- Kelly Kruger .... Heather Ann Wendorf
- Richard Gilliland .... Sgt. Ben Odom
- Larry Dirk .... Sheriff Mike Dane
- Stacy Hogue .... Jeni Wendorf
- Spencer Redford .... Jeanine Leclair
- Mimi Craven as Ruth Wendorf
Reception
Critical reception for the film has been mixed.[3] JoBlo.com was also mixed, stating that it "had some decent acting and tunes and at times, slick directing, but on the whole, rubbed me the wrong way from every freaking angle. I just couldn’t find an anchor to the story and I truly, and I mean TRULY, despised the characters in it."[4] Variety panned the movie, writing "From its ripped-from-the-headlines topic of teen bloodsuckers to the blandness of a low-budgeter shockingly low on shocks, true story of the murder of a family is translated by scripter Aaron Pope into a woefully standard depiction of wayward youth."[5]
References
- ↑ "Vampire Clan". The New York Times.
- ↑ "The Vampire Killers". Crime Library.
- ↑ "Rotten Tomatoes Review". Rotten Tomatoes.
- ↑ "Vampire Clan (review)". JoBlo.com. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
- ↑ Koehler, Robert. "Review: ‘Vampire Clan’". Variety. Retrieved 2 September 2015.