Vampire Count Morlock (Michael Lynn) is staked by vampire hunter Robert
Branson (Gene Desmore), who then calls his employer, professor Lamont, and
Lamont's assistant Betty to Morlock's castle. Lamont, I might want to add
here, wants to study Morlock to discover the secret of his immortality.
That way, he figures, he might even be able to cure the vampire. Morlock
has an assistant though who pulls the stake from his heart, and he and his
assistant suck dry and stake Branson before the professor arrives. When
the professor does arrive though, he has little problems convincing
Morlock and assistant to let him study them in exchange for curing them
from their bloodlust. And in the meantime, they get blood plasma as
substitute for the real thing. Just when the professor is making a
groundbreaking discovery though, the blood plasma runs out and the
vampires' original nature as bloodsuckers comes to the fore once more, and
they kill the professor and turn Betty into one of them. Vampire Betty is
less than pleased though so she goes after Morlock, kills him, then
destroys professor Lamont's lab. A low budget vampire short,
this film isn't without its virtues: It's rather atmospheric and it
features an inspired (if not 100% original) story. On the downside though,
the direction is a tad on the stagey side and the (budgetary) decision to
shoot the thing silent and later add narration was not exactly a good one,
given the rather blatant lines the narrator is burdened with. Then
again, the film lasts a mere 15 minutes, and at this running time is at
least entertaining enough for the good parts to outweigh the bad.
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