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Jakob's Wife
USA 2021
produced by Barbara Crampton, Bob Portal, Inderpal Singh, Travis Stevens, Nina Kolokouri (executive), Rick Moore (executive), James Norrie (executive) for AMP International, EyevoxAMP International, Eyevox
directed by Travis Stevens
starring Barbara Crampton, Larry Fessenden, Bonnie Aarons, Nyisha Bell, Sarah Lind, Mark Kelly, Robert Rusler, Jay DeVon Johnson, C.M. Punk, Omar Salazar, Angelie Simone, Armani Desirae, Ned Yousef, Giovannie Cruz, Monica L. Henry, Skeeta Jenkins, Kathe Newcomb
written by Mark Steensland, Kathy Charles, Travis Stevens, music by Tara Busch, special effects makeup by Marcus Koch, Jessie Seitz
review by Mike Haberfelner
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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.
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