Winter,Gothic, some Vampire's. Snow falls quietly. Above the old cemetery, the sky grays, the sun sets, and in the old theater, a young nymph screams. It's not about beauty, it's just the making of the night decided to have dinner. In this old town, as the sun goes down, mysteries creep out, and some of them have fangs. Fortunately, even among the undead, there is a bastard with a good heart, that by chance, and with a punishing sword, he is ready to shank his fellows. For Zachary's thirst for blood is like a curse, and his duty is to dispose of his own kind.
Every city has its own Vampire Boss. The aesthetic leader of the urban undead Ash, nicknamed Meloman, is very discouraged by the appearance of a hunter in his lands. So how will the duel of the doomed for eternity end?
Absolutely unimaginable sight. To begin with, Ted Nikolau made the film in the best traditions of Anne Rice’s books. He is slow in pitching, visually beautiful, and vampires are shown exactly as the generation of the nineties used to see them - Ultra pompous, similar to the Gothic subculture, with necessarily arrogant attitude to mortals, and decadance, the frantic break of decadence opens to the eye.
From the very beginning, the gaze slides through the ancient cemetery, then we will be taken to the Starnnits city where potential victims of vampires wander along the cobblestone-paved streets. That's not all! There will be a ball, and battles, and pathetic speeches about the frailty of existence. And revealing the longing of the vampire spirit, many more...
And somehow involuntarily transported to these cold streets, and together with the vampire Zachary, tired of life, you try to understand, And why actually drag this miserable existence? But, suddenly comes love, and love and vampirism theme to the bone gothic, no matter how twisted. Ted Nikolau has no problems with the world perception of the very Gothic stylization, plus the time for which the filming took place, all these long curls, and leather cloaks.
The timing is small, but for these eighty-some minutes I enjoyed the beauty of the experiences of the main protagonist Zachary, this is by the way in some ways similar to the reasoning from ' Interview with the Vampire', and frantically got high from the pathetic villain Ash-Meloman.
A picture of the life of vampires in the style of low-fi. You won't see much action here. The confrontation between Zachary and Meloman is more of a dialogue duel, against which the rest of the vampire bomb hangs out. If Nikolau was filming something like an action movie about the undead, then unfortunately it would be extremely dull. Instead, there is the beauty of the philosophy of immortality, and visual chic.
Vampire Journal is not related to Subspecies dialogue, it is a separate film in the vampire universe. His directorial vision, if you will.