National Vampire
Beware: National Vampire is a documentary with bite.
National Vampire is a feature-length documentary that explores vampire culture in the United States. To achieve this, the filmmakers spent more than two years traveling around the country, attending vampire-related events, and interviewing dozens of people involved in the vampire community. Shooting locations include a Vampire’s Ball held in New Orleans each Halloween, a vampire tour of San Francisco, and a New York City shop that “transforms” people into vampires. Also featured are a vampire “dentist” who makes fangs for a living, vampire role playing gamers in Dayton, Ohio, a vampire-themed magician, and a bloodthirsty Texas couple that claims to be the real thing. Going beyond the surface, National Vampire also explores a number of subcultures that overlap the vampire community, including the goth music scene, bondage and S&M, and blood fetishists who take part in piercing and full-body suspension rituals.
Directed by Geoff Harkness
Cast
- Ron Fitzgerald Self
- Martin V. Riccardo Self
- Steve Bennett Self
- Anna DeMeo Self
- DJ Lestat Self
- Dnash Self
- Sebastian Todd Self
- Cosmos Salome Erredin Self
- John Kid Self
- Cattarina Knight Self
- Vlad Tepes Knight Self
- Maria Martinez Self
Make it a double feature
3h 19m together
National Vampire
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
A close match in mood and era.
