Delicacy

2017, 12 minutes

Vampire falls in love with girl and it goes wrong.

Ivan, a vampire who is part of a sadistic vampire gang obsessed with torturing people and indulging in a plethora of vices, comes across an opportunity to change his evil ways when he falls in love with a human woman named Sara. The film begins with a gang of 3 vampires driving around at night, looking for more women to drain blood from and kill. While Eric and Max (the other 2 vampires) are distracted, Ivan notices a lone woman standing at a bus stop. He claims that she is to be his victim and that the others should leave him alone while he deals with her, so they drive off. He notices that she is crying, which throws him off guard. Ivan ends up talking to the girl instead, in their small conversation they develop a deep connection. The woman, Sara, gives Ivan her number and kisses him on the cheek as she leaves the bus stop. Ivan starts to secretly date Sara, which jeopardises his wellbeing physically and socially. He keeps on turning his friends away to secretly meet up with Sara, which aggravates them as they don’t know what he is doing behind their back. As Ivan hasn’t told Sara he is a vampire, he keeps eating human food which tastes revolting to him and he has to keep secretly vomiting it back up. In the final scene, Sara and Ivan are walking in an empty underground tunnel, Sara tries to push their relationship to the next level, but Ivan keeps on resisting due to the fact he is scared that he will kill her if they get physical. They start arguing because Ivan is being hesitant and he is aggravated that he can’t tell her anything. In the heat of the argument, Max and Eric walk past. Eric starts to put things together and realises that Ivan and Sara are a couple. He is unhappy Ivan didn’t just kill her so he and Max threaten to kill her. Ivan fights both Max and Eric off and suck their blood, killing them. Sara realises that Ivan is a vampire. The film ends with Ivan crying in a pool of blood surrounded by his dead friends.

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