Vampire Diary
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 While making a documentary about the Goth scene and 'weekend vampire' phenomenon, filmmaker Holly invites Vicki to take part, though her newly-found participant maintains she is a real bloodsucker. Fascinated by her subject, Holly falls headlong into a passionate affair with Vicki but soon discovers her lover has an insatiable bloodlust and is pregnant with vampire child.
In England, Holly (Morven Macbeth) wishes to make a documentary about so-called "weekend vampires," revelers who dress up in makeup, black clothes and fake pointy teeth for nights on the town. Not surprisingly, she meets a real vampire, Vicki (Anna Walton). Surprisingly, Holly and Vicki fall in love and Vicki turns out to be pregnant! Imagine a normal, moody pregnant lady and then picture her as a vampire, needing fresh blood to feed herself and her baby. It's a good idea, and Walton (who recently appeared as the beautiful, creepy Princess Nuala in Hellboy II: The Golden Army) is a truly alluring, mesmerizing presence, beautiful, gentle and dangerous. But unfortunately, the co-directors Mark James and Phil O'Shea have decided to shoot the movie using only Holly's video camera (and other video cameras that happen to be nearby). The movie is thereby grainy, subjective and cramped (including the sex scenes). Worse, the filmmakers offer no logical justification for this approach other than that Holly is "making a documentary." (Also, there are never any issues with dying batteries or filled-up tapes.) The movie also breaks these rules for flashbacks and other bits. When George A. Romero used the same tactic for Diary of the Dead earlier this year, he incorporated the style into the fabric of the film itself. Here it's just a low-budget gimmick, and it detracts from the story. Likewise, the screenplay is a tad overwritten, but the acting is fine, and die-hard vampire fans will want to check it out. Producer Margaret Matheson also made Sid and Nancy (1986).  Anna Walton ... Vicki Morven Macbeth ... Holly Jamie Thomas King ... Adam (as Jamie King) Kate Sissons ... Haze Justin McDonald ... Brad Keith-Lee Castle ... Eddie Strode Rupert Baker ... Kerb crawler Jennifer Brammer ... Vicki's sister Natalie Bromley ... TV news reader Shinnya Cargill ... Vicki's daughter John Cobb ... Taxi Driver Grahame Fox ... Security guard Tim Hands ... TV news voice Mark James ... Doctor Keith Lancaster ... Vagrant Mike Lucas ... Car park victim Zoe O'Shea ... Young Holly Paul Pannack ... Policeman Michael Riley ... Policeman Richard Stanley ... Spanish Rapist Jack Thomas ... Wasteground victim Gregor Tutor ... Lift victim Milly Walton ... Vicki's daughter IMDB Trailer Download Torrent 
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