Anne (Barbara Crampton) has always been a good wife to her husband Jakob (Larry Fessenden), their hometown's reverend, good to the point of obedience, as he arrogantly takes his role as man of the house God-given. Then she learns her high school sweetheart Tom (Robert Rusler) returns to town on a development project, and since she's on board of that project, she's to show him the location, the old mill. In the privacy the old mill offers them, they confess they have still feelings for one another, and who knows where the situation would have went if they weren't viciously attacked by someone or something. Now after that, Tom is never seen again, but Anne returns a changed woman, she has found new self confidence, new spontaneity, new independence - and has to realize the only food that she can devour is blood, preferably human. She tries to quench her urges, but of course, she needs food eventually, and eventually then, the food delivery boy becomes food. When Jakob walks in on this, he's understandably shocked, but as he loves his wife, he promises to help her - and that doesn't only help feeding her, but also help her finding the master vampire (Bonnie Aarons), to kill him because according to his theory, things would go back to how they were as a result. Thing is, Anne doesn't really want things to go back to normal ...

A very interesting take on the vampire lore, as it makes a point of seeing vampirism as not inherently evil but also a trigger for emancipation while it portrays what's normally the forces of good in vampire stories as a very narrow and narrow-minded society that might really deserve a bit of breaking up - in a way, it's really a reverse to the classic Stepford Wives. But what makes this movie is that it doesn't take itself too seriously making the point, rather mixes clever satire with horror - but also with comedy, comedy that's not always exactly in good taste. And Barbara Crampton really carries the movie, ably supported by Larry Fessenden and a competent ensemble, to make this one joy to watch.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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