Vampire Diary Details

Vampy britflick

Vampire Diary is the story of Holly, a film-maker shooting a documentary on vampire lifestylers, and Vicky, who claims to be the real deal. The two women begin an affair that is thrown into turmoil when Vicky reveals that she is pregnant with a vampiric baby, and asks for Holly’s help in continuing her murderous feeding to keep herself and her unborn child alive.

Filmed in and around London, including locations such as Electrowerkz, Cyberdog and the Electric Ballroom, the film is full of evocative, familiar places and faces that will be recogniseable to any regulars on the London goth scene.

Fans of prosthetics, fangs and general gore will also be happy, & the soundtrack will strike chords with many Goth types (no pun intended), featuring tracks from such Goth band stalwarts as NFD, Voices of Masada, Ghost of Lemora, Interlock and Scary Bitches.

The production values for the film are obviously high, and the documentary/video diary premise allows for some interesting camera angles and effects. The bloody scenes were real enough to make me slightly queasy (but then I’m a bit of a wuss like that.) However, it’s a fairly safe bet that it won’t be winning any acting Oscars, with the largely competent cast doing their best with a rather dubious screenplay.

Still, worth checking out, particularly if you are familiar with the London goth/alternative scene.

[Highly rated reviewer]

Better then expected

I recently bought this as a cheap excuse for some pointless and I was surprised on two accounts.

Firstly, it was actually half decent. Secondly, it's a British film.

It was blatently done on the cheap and the filmmakers try far too hard to be original in character, eventhough the basic premise is becoming a movie staple. But that said they did manage to make a flick that can easily pass the time.