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 vampire
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 drama film written and directed by Peter Pontikis. It tells the story of two vampire sisters trying to escape a bikergang. Also, one of them wants to leave her life as a vampire and try to pass off as an ordinary woman with her human boyfriend.

Plot

Two vampire sisters, Vera(Jenny Lampa) and Vanja(Ruth Vega Fernandez), attends a illegal club. A the club, Vera is sexually harrased by a biker(Peter Järn). She drags him into the bathroom, pretending to accepting having sex with him. Vera kills the biker with her pocket knife. Vera and Vanja escapes the scene. The biker's gang gives them chase wanting reveange.

The film intercuts with events from previous nights. Vera and Vanja belong to a breed of vampires, who are human-like but can only survive on blood. Both of the sisters are homeless. Vanja plans to try to live with her secret human boyfriend and pass of as a regular human, haveing heard a rumor that other vampires have done this. Vanja tries to avoid killing humans and steals blood from hospitals to feed her cravings.

After having been found by the bikers the Vera and Vanja escape through the Stockholm
Stockholm
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 Ghost Park and are separated. Vera is picked up by a Taxi Driver, representing humanity(David Dencik
David Dencik
David Dencik is a Swedish actor.After having had minor roles in different films, David Dencik became an established actor in Sweden for his role as the killer John Ausonius in the three-part TV mini-series Lasermannen in 2005...

). The biker seem friendly at first but when he finds out she does not have any money to pay him he asks for oral sex. Vera attacks and kills him.

Vera and Vanja are reuinted at a midnight theatre showing Night of the Living Dead
Night of the Living Dead
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 and Vanja tells Vera about her plan. Vera panics with the idea of not living with her sister and betrays their location to one of the bikers(Jörgen Persson) as he is talking to his friend(Omid Khansari). The bikers chase the sisters down to a warehouse. Vera has a change of heart and confronts the bikers as Vanja escapes. Vera admits to the bikers killing their friend and meets her end at their hands.

The film ends with Vanja meeting her boy friend(Marcus Ovnell) at Stockholm Central Station
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.

Cast

  • Jenny Lampa - Vera
  • Ruth Vega Fernandez - Vanja
  • David Dencik
    David Dencik
    David Dencik is a Swedish actor.After having had minor roles in different films, David Dencik became an established actor in Sweden for his role as the killer John Ausonius in the three-part TV mini-series Lasermannen in 2005...

     - Taxi Driver(Humanity)
  • Peter Järn - Biker 1
  • Jörgen Persson - Biker 2
  • Omid Khansari - Filmbuff
  • Marcus Ovnell - Vanja's Boyfriend
  • Isabella Sobieski - Nurse
  • Björn Ekdahl - DJ
  • Ellen Fjæstad - Party girl


David Dencik is the only human character to have any(audioble) dialouge. According to director Portikis he is supposed to representate humanity.

Response

The films was meet with mostly negative reviews. Swedish critic and writter of the other Swedish vampire film Frostbite Pidde Andersson has mentioned in several reviews and interviews that he views it as the worst vampire film of all time.
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