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Directed by: Vincent Lannoo

Starring: Carlo Ferrante, Vera Van Dooren, Pierre Lognay, Fleur Lise Heuet, Julien Dore

When you receive a movie in your mailbox for review with nothing but the disc--no press release, nothing describing what other people think about the very movie you are about to see---you tend to reserve judgment. Although to be quite frank the number one cause of judgement comes from the one thing that you do receive with the movie; it's title. That is why upon receiving Vampires in my mailbox, I became very dubious of its appeal. Vampires, were already getting phased out. How great could a film be about vampires that was called Vampires? An already tired genre with what is perhaps the most tired and obvious title you could choose from. Little did I know in those beginning moments of judgement, that Vampires would take me for surprise.

Just as vampires are slowly getting phased out,...

Movie trailer and poster for Vampires, starring Carlo Ferrante and Vera Van Dooren The comedy opens nationwide on demand from IFC Midnight, via Comcast, Cox, Cablevision, Time Warner, and Bright House on July 1st. They did it! They made a documentary on a bunch of vampires! A family of vampires, bored with immortality, lives in Belgium, eats illegal immigrants, children, handicapped folk, and takes every advantage they can suck out of the country’s social system. Samson, a seventies throwback, lives his 55th year like he’s forever 20. Grace, an eternal teenager bent on being human again, keeps committing suicide. George, the patriarch, manages as best he can...

Movie trailer and poster for Vampires, starring Carlo Ferrante and Vera Van Dooren The comedy opens nationwide on demand from IFC Midnight, via Comcast, Cox, Cablevision, Time Warner, and Bright House on July 1st. They did it! They made a documentary on a bunch of vampires! A family of vampires, bored with immortality, lives in Belgium, eats illegal immigrants, children, handicapped folk, and takes every advantage they can suck out of the country’s social system. Samson, a seventies throwback, lives his 55th year like he’s forever 20. Grace, an eternal teenager bent on being human again, keeps committing suicide. George, the patriarch, manages as best he can...

Movie trailer and poster for Vampires, starring Carlo Ferrante and Vera Van Dooren The comedy opens nationwide on demand from IFC Midnight, via Comcast, Cox, Cablevision, Time Warner, and Bright House on July 1st. They did it! They made a documentary on a bunch of vampires! A family of vampires, bored with immortality, lives in Belgium, eats illegal immigrants, children, handicapped folk, and takes every advantage they can suck out of the country’s social system. Samson, a seventies throwback, lives his 55th year like he’s forever 20. Grace, an eternal teenager bent on being human again, keeps committing suicide. George, the patriarch, manages as best he can...

Director Vincent Lannoo's Vampires will screen at Sci-Fi London beginning May 1st (9:30pm). The film follows a documentary crew who films the life and times of a group of vampires living in Belgium. The Belgium government supports this undead family with a steady supply of fodder e.g. illegal immigrants, and handicapped folk. The film itself moves back and forth between horror and comedy. Vampires is one of the highlights of the film festival and for those with an interest in satire there is a trailer below with more details.

A plot summary courtesy of Sci-Fi London:

"The mockumentary format has now taken on the more sophisticated, eloquent branch of the undead, as a camera crew follows a family of vampires. ‘Living’ in Belgium, a place the head of the vampire family refers to as ‘a flat land full of grey people’, they are bored by their immortality.