Bogieville
Actor-director Sean Cronin played the arch-vampire in Wrath of Dracula; here, he’s Madison – a less imposing alpha bloodsucker in overalls. Madison hides in a basement in Bogieville, a near-derelict Georgia trailer park named after Humphrey Bogart, and rules over a fractious gang of piranha-fanged, perpetually blood-slobbering ghouls who are plainly more trouble than they’re worth. Innocents Ham (Arifin Putra) and Jody (Eloise Lovell Anderson) – who both lose their jobs on the same day – think they’ve run over someone outside Bogieville and Madison’s living, shotgun-toting brother-in-law Crawford (Jonathan Hansler) dupes them into taking maintainance jobs there with the long-term plan of them taking over his Renfield duties and looking after his blind vampire daughter Lily (Poppie Jae Hughes). Meanwhile, the Sheriff (Daniel P. Lewis) and a local doc (Angela Dixon) are starting to figure out what might be behind all the throat-ripping murders in these parts.
Written by Henry P. Gravelle, this springs a series of gruesome vampire gags – in the first scene, a menstruating woman is attacked on the toilet, just to set the tone – while corralling more characters than the movie can really handle … it’s the sort of picture which stops dead for lengthy conversation scenes but still can’t confirm or deny whether major characters have survived or been killed in the climactic attack on the trailer park . There are some interesting notions – a tendency among these fairly wretched vampires to be suicidally drawn to ‘sunning’, the oddly determined day labourer Crawford’s relationship with his monster family – and Putra and Anderson are likeable leads. But I get an impression of missing or truncated scenes or abandoned costly action sequences. With familiar low-budget Brit horror folk – Hansler (The Devil’s Business), Andrew Lee Potts (Never Have I Ever), Katie Sheridan (Frankenstein: Legacy), Sarah Alexandra Marks (Witch), Ayvianna Snow (How to Kill Monsters) – working hard on their down home Southern American accents.
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