Dir Jim Mickle (2010 98 min, red one, 2.35)
Connor Paolo, Nick Damici, and Kelly McGillis
Martin (Connor Paolo) was a normal teenage boy before the country collapsed in an empty pit of economic and political disaster. A vampire epidemic has swept across what is left of the nation’s abandoned towns and cities, and it’s up to Mister (Nick Damici), a death dealing, rogue vampire hunter, to get Martin safely north to Canada, the continent’s New Eden.
New York Times critics’ pick
—Jeannette Catsoulis NEW YORK TIMES
The American Horror Film of the Year
—Todd Brown TWITCH FILM
The Mayhem is beautifully composed. The Performances are terrific.
—THE NEW YORKER
Harrowing! Puts vampires back where they belong — in your nightmares, and at your throat!Rex Reed —-—NEW YORK OBSERVER
An ambitious hybrid, grafting the ethereal, landscape-driven, light-infused beauty and naïf narration associated with Terrence Malick onto a tale in which struggle against supernatural forces is just one challenge of coming of age—a trope that … hasn’t had such a sense of balance between the fantastic and the organic since the heyday of Joss Whedon …
thick with a distinct mood—the sadness and exhilaration of having nothing left to lose—and the characters, in their desperation and drive, feel real.
Fessenden may be producing the best brains-before-blood horror in North America today.
—Karina Longworth THE VILLAGE VOICE
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