Nobody known what is exactly going on, but the city seems to be under
some kind of attack - and to escape that, Catherine (April Basile) seeks
shelter in a warehouse ... that at first seems abandoned, but then she
finds two dead guards and a grotesque decaying figure, someone who looks
mummified enough to have been dead for ages, yet he's alive, Aeon (Daniel
E. Falicki). Aeon is a vampire, the last of his kind, and he was kept in
this warehouse in a vegetative state for decades, so the scientists could
have their fun with him, but now the cataclysm has freed him ... So
Catherine is torn between the bombardment and certain death on the
outside, and the vampire and almost certain death on the inside - so she
chooses the latter, as the vampire doesn't seem to be at full strength yet
... The unique situation gets Catherine and the vampire talking, and
some of what the vampire says makes Catherine question her preception of
good and evil - especially when Aeon says his species only kills humans in
order to survive, and if it's absolutely necessary at that, while humans
kill other humans for every number of reasons, humans are the only species
capable of destroying their own planet, and so on and so forth. In other
words, the vampire might not be the bad guy here, at least not if compared
to humans ... and nevertheless, all that doesn't really convince Catherine
to want to give up her life any sooner, and even if she doesn't know what
awaits her once she has escaped the vampire, she is a testament for the
humans' reslience - but will she escape Aeon at all ... Aeon:
The Last Vampyre on Earth is an enjoyably odd little horror film, as
while it's atmospheric and at times scary and gory enough, it focusses
more on the philosophical dimensions of the genre-immanent
good-evil-dichotomy and also touches religious questions and the like. And
while basically, the film is only two people talking in a room (mostly),
the whole thing is still suspenseful as heck, and most suspense is derived
from the conversation even. Now add to that two very competent leads,
great sets and special effects makeup, and of course a very stylish (yet
not glossy) directorial effort, and you've got yourself a very unusual
piece of horror. Recommended!
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