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Synopsis
Lara, a precocious Goth teen, hates her wholesome sister, Helen.
She envies her popularity, her beauty and most of all, her mother's love.
One day, after their 16th Birthday party, during which she is particularly
humiliated, Lara performs an intricate ritual in front of her Anne Rice
alter involving a Barbie doll and cow heart. The next morning Helen
awakens with a severe nosebleed. Then she dies in her sister's horrified
arms.
The family is desperately grief stricken. Lara is filled with guilt,
Mom with philosophical anguish and Raymond, the gay neuro-scientist brother,
with curiosity as he discovers a unique virus in Helen's blood: a
virus that feeds on red blood cells. Suddenly there is a knock on
the door. Helen, still wearing her white body bag, is standing outside
covered in blood.
It is pretty clear that all is not well with their resurrected family
member. For one thing, she requires human blood as sustenance.
The family realize they must find 'human sacrifices' to keep her going.
But the angelic youth refuses to feed. She suffers gut-wrenching
blood withdrawals until she blacks out and rips her victims to shreds.
The first 'sacrifices' are a pair of Mormons who happen upon their abode
with the intention of spreading love. After that it is pretty much
up to Raymond, who cruises the local gay bars in search of prey.
How long can they keep this up? Well at least until other vampires
come for her. But that's where the plot thickens. How did
Helen become a vampire? What exactly are vampires? Get ready
for a major twist on an ancient mythology. |