Robert and his kid brother Kurt go out in the middle of the night to ride their bikes around town. When they stop to talk, they see a man across the street attacked by someone in a cloak. When Robert goes over to see if he’s okay, he discovers the man is dead with two marks on his neck. When the cloak wearer jumps out at them, Robert and Kurt pedal off with the killer chasing behind them.
They wake up Peter ,who works for their dad, and tell him what they’ve seen. Robert has the dead guy’s bag which contains what is essentially a vampire kit - stake, hammer, holy water and a necklace. They’re confused by this. So they know about vampires, but don’t know about stakes?
The next day they convince Peter to drive them to the location of the attack, but the body is gone. Probably because it’s daytime and in front of a business, but they don’t think of that. When they start looking around, they’re attacked by two knife wielding men. They manage to escape and call the police, which leads to Robert and Kurt’s dad telling Peter to stay away from his sons.
Peter enlists the help of his girlfriend Diane and friend Jerry to figure out what is going on. He ends up having a run in with the vampire and his followers. The followers continually scream “aaaaahhhhh” as they are attacking, something which I’ve never heard vampires do.
The necklace holds a paper which has a list of books and the name of a library. While doing research, they discover one text has a drawing of the man in the cloak. It says he’s an ancient Aztec god known as Lord of the Shadows aka Shadow Lord. As they make plans for his downfall, Peter realizes the only garlic he has is on some left over garlic bread, which he uses to fight off the vampire at one point.
This is a local production which probably had no budget. The actors aren’t professionals and the production values are low. It appears to have been edited on a VCR since each shot ends with a blip and scrolling lines. The vampires are wearing those plastic teeth everyone wore as kids. It’s a story of good vs. evil, and the last part seems to get more religious. The roughest thing about the movie is it’s almost two hours long. It certainly doesn’t need to be. There is plenty of padding and it’s not engaging enough to keep your interest the whole time. Although to be fair, I do love low budget shot on video movies of the 80s. There is a charm to them, even if they can get boring at times.
If you want to watch this film, do a search for the name on YouTube.
Ridiculous dialogue
These books could probably tell us what we’re up against.
I guess that when the presence of evil is resisted, even the very presence of it will flee.
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| The title card |
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| A lot of the movie is shot at night |
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| Robert and Kurt riding their bikes |
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| The drawing which is supposed to be in the book |
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| Every cut has a glitch like when you dub from VCR to VCR |
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| Pete and his vampire hunting outfit. He also has crosses tied to his legs |
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| The not so scary vampires with their flannel and plastic teeth |
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| This is the head vampire |
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| Kurt starts out with his hair over half his ears… |
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| …but he gets a haircut during the filming |
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