Underplayed Gems

Blood and Donuts (1995)

Blood and Donuts poster
Original title
Blood & Donuts
Directed by
Holly Dale
Genre
comedy film, horror film, exploitation film, vampire film, black comedy film, supernatural horror film
Country
Canada
Runtime
1h 29m
Rating
5.4 of 10 from 42 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A vampire wakes up after 25 years and tentatively reconnects with the modern world. He starts to care about the people he meets, which pulls him into their troubles and draws them into his own.

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What happens

Blood and Donuts is a 1995 Canadian supernatural comedy horror film directed by Holly Dale, written by Andrew Rai Berzins, and starring Gordon Currie and Helene Clarkson. David Cronenberg plays a cameo role as the local crime boss. The film features a vampire who is accidentally awakened after 25 years of sleep and starts to shyly make contact with the mortal world around him. As he interacts and begins to care for the people around him, he gets mixed up in their problems and they in his. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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