TIFF 2010: STAKE LAND's Vampires Are The Anti-TWILIGHT

by Todd Brown, August 17, 2010 2:03 PM

Tired of vampires being all pretty and sparkly and sigh-inducing? So is Jim Mickle. The director of Stake Land has loaded his film with vampires that are the antithesis of the romanticized Twilight vamp, these are vicious, savage beasts. And they definitely aint pretty. Freshly selected for the Midnight Madness program at the Toronto International Film Festival, a pair of vampire pictures from the film have turned up online. Check the official festival description of the picture below, then the images in the gallery below that.

In the aftermath of a vampire epidemic, a teen is taken in by a grizzled vampire hunter on a road trip through a post-apocalyptic America, battling both the bloodsuckers and a fundamentalist militia that interprets the plague as the Lord's work.

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4 Comments

by cuckoo, August 17, 2010 3:32 PM

So nice to see vampires that aren't emo or that look like they just came from a Nine Inch Nails concert. Here's hoping Mr. Mickle keeps the gruesomeness up high.

cuckoo replied to comment from cuckoo, August 17, 2010 3:37 PM

Just found the teaser: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Agh3rFtF294

Looks appropriately bleak, but a bit low budget...of course, it's just a teaser.

Todd Brown replied to comment from cuckoo, August 17, 2010 3:49 PM

Oh, right ... I'd forgotten about that teaser ... that was actually cut from stuff from the first few day's shooting. No post production polish on it at all, it's pretty much raw. I'm surprised they left it online, actually ... loading a higher res version into the player here now ...

by Tory, August 17, 2010 3:33 PM

That description definitely has me intrigued.

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