Gay vampire movie is dead on arrival
EULOGY FOR A VAMPIRE (Patrick McGuinn, 2009)
Quad Cinema
34 West 13th St. between Fifth & Sixth Aves.
October 23-29
212-255-8800
www.eulogyforavampire.com
www.quadcinema.com
In case you were wondering whether the current spate of vampire-related books, music, television, and movies has jumped the shark yet, along comes EULOGY FOR A VAMPIRE, a lame gay-softcore horror flick that lacks any kind of a bite. An amateurish mix of DARK SHADOWS and late-night scinemax, EULOGY is set in an isolated monastery filled with snarky brothers who all fall for a hot, mysterious stranger with a past hidden even from himself. While the brothers of the Order of the Pathetic – um, we mean the Order of the Pathicus – want to sink their teeth into Sebastian, Father Anthony is worried that the truth of what happened twenty-five years ago will rise from the grave.
We kept waiting for moments of camp and kitsch to show up, but it looks like the cast and crew were serious about this film, which was produced and directed by Patrick McGuinn (SUN KISSED, SUROH: ALIEN HITCHHIKER) and written by André Salas (LATIN BOYS GO TO HELL). And yes, Father Anthony does indeed say “pish posh” at one point.