A man simply called Mister (Nick Damici) and his young partner Martin (Connor Paolo) drive across a vampire wasteland in what used to be small town America. Wait a sec, didn't this used to be called PHANTASM II (1988)? Or was it DARKNESS (1997)? Similarities aside, this is a pretty interesting take on the the vampire sub-genre. And, thankfully, it doesn't have the sexy vampire cliché. The vampire plague wipes out most of the world with a few surviving towns here and there. Mister, a rare vampire killer, and Martin are trying to make it a place called New Eden. Along the way they pick up strays including a nun (Kelly McGillis, looking like James Coburn) and a pregnant girl (Danielle Harris). And, of course, they run across some religious nuts led by Jebedia (Michael Cerveris). The filmmakers do bleak pretty well as this shares the same landscape as THE ROAD (2009). I could have done without the heavy handed narration from Martin, but it had to be done since, well, it was done in PHANTASM II as well.
