d./w./p. Nabil Shaban;
cast: Jenni Young, Karen Douglas, Ricky Callan, Nabil Shaban, Sofie Alonzi,
Dolina Maclennan, Andrew Dallmeyer, James Tennant
Interesting and worthwhile, despite low production values, Shaban’s
only feature is a character study of a 12-year-old goth. Kylie, who prefers ‘Morticia’,
is regarded as the local weirdo by children and adults alike. An able and
intelligent child, her poetic school essay about wanting to become a vampire causes
chaos when read out in class. She steals a paperback of Dracula from the
library and reads it in a churchyard, then steals a bat from Edinburgh Zoo. Her
bumptious mother and long-suffering father, a disabled Gulf War veteran, don’t know
what to do with her. Eventually her romantic view of death is cracked by
overhearing her dad talk about the women and children he was required to kill
in Iraq. Right at the end, Dracula himself appears, probably a hallucination. Disabled
actor Shaban (still fondly remembered for a role in 1980s Doctor Who) plays a psychologist. Night Kaleidoscope director
Grant McPhee pops up in the credits as colourist. Shot in 2009, this premiered
at a vampire film festival in October that year.
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