Phil Messerer’s latest film Oops! You’re A Vampire is a horror / black comedy and is now on VOD (streaming for free on Tubi and Freevee) from Lion Heart Distribution .
Oops! You’re A Vampire was written and directed by Phil Messerer and stars Eilis Cahill, Devon Dionne and Chase Gilbertson.
Synopsis:
Twin sisters Lara and Helen Baxter couldn’t be more different. Lara is a black-haired goth who has a shrine to Anne Rice in her candle-lit room and enjoys solitary walks in the cemetery while blonde Helen is in the church choir and is one of the most popular girls at school. They live with their religious mother and older brother Raymond, who is studying to be a doctor. One day, Helen suddenly dies after losing a lot of blood due to a nosebleed. After examining her blood, Raymond concludes that she was suffering from a rare blood disorder,...
Oops! You’re A Vampire was written and directed by Phil Messerer and stars Eilis Cahill, Devon Dionne and Chase Gilbertson.
Synopsis:
Twin sisters Lara and Helen Baxter couldn’t be more different. Lara is a black-haired goth who has a shrine to Anne Rice in her candle-lit room and enjoys solitary walks in the cemetery while blonde Helen is in the church choir and is one of the most popular girls at school. They live with their religious mother and older brother Raymond, who is studying to be a doctor. One day, Helen suddenly dies after losing a lot of blood due to a nosebleed. After examining her blood, Raymond concludes that she was suffering from a rare blood disorder,...
- 7/6/2023
- by Peter 'Witchfinder' Hopkins
- Horror Asylum
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- 8/3/2012
- by James Wray
- Monsters and Critics
Indie filmmaker Phil Messerer (pictured) recently chatted with Fango about his directorial debut, the vampire opus Thicker Than Water: The Vampire Diaries Part 1. A far cry from the teen-skewing, similarly titled TV series hitting the airwaves this fall, it’s the harrowing tale of the lengths a family will go to stay together. Offering none of the romanticism that has plagued this subgenre in recent years (in the likes of Twilight et al.), the film presents vampirism as something of a disease for which blood is the only effective medicine, and has won awards at numerous festivals.
“I grew up in a New York ghetto, and the local theater only showed horror and martial arts flicks,” Messerer tells us, reflecting on his influences. “My mom and I always went to the horror shows. So from the earliest age, I was on a steady diet of B-movies. My mother died about 10 years ago,...
“I grew up in a New York ghetto, and the local theater only showed horror and martial arts flicks,” Messerer tells us, reflecting on his influences. “My mom and I always went to the horror shows. So from the earliest age, I was on a steady diet of B-movies. My mother died about 10 years ago,...
- 7/14/2009
- by no-reply@fangoria.com (Logan DeSisto)
- Fangoria
Director: Phil Messerer.
Writer: Phil Messerer.
Phil Messerer's "Thicker Than Water" involves the death of character Helen Baxter (Devon Bailey) who comes back to life as a vampire due to a degenerative disease housed in her DNA. Shot for a budget this film is the first film in a series of three that focuses on dark noir with the Baxter family acting as the films central characters. Light on action and exterior shots the films writing and original music make up for any disadvantages associated with independent filmmaking.
The film begins with Lara Baxter (Eilis Cahill) casting a satanic curse on her sister Helen, but when her sister quickly dies of a very bloody nosebleed the family turns to mourning, temporarily. With lightning and enhanced make-up Helen reunites with her family, from the dead, only this time with an insatiable hunger for human blood. The vampire legends of old...
Writer: Phil Messerer.
Phil Messerer's "Thicker Than Water" involves the death of character Helen Baxter (Devon Bailey) who comes back to life as a vampire due to a degenerative disease housed in her DNA. Shot for a budget this film is the first film in a series of three that focuses on dark noir with the Baxter family acting as the films central characters. Light on action and exterior shots the films writing and original music make up for any disadvantages associated with independent filmmaking.
The film begins with Lara Baxter (Eilis Cahill) casting a satanic curse on her sister Helen, but when her sister quickly dies of a very bloody nosebleed the family turns to mourning, temporarily. With lightning and enhanced make-up Helen reunites with her family, from the dead, only this time with an insatiable hunger for human blood. The vampire legends of old...
- 7/2/2009
- by Michael Ross Allen
- 28 Days Later Analysis
Winner of the Jury Prize at the Honolulu International Festival "Thicker Than Water: The Vampire Diaries Part 1" will present at the Bram Stoker International Film Festival beginning October 16. Part of a series of three films the first film has been completed with the second in production. Very visual in the effects the film is suitable for those looking for a new approach to this ancient myth of the vampire. Have a look at the full cast line-up and prepare for a review of the film at a later date.
A synopsis for "The Vampire Diaries: Thicker Than Water" here...
Thicker Than Water is the first part in the Vampire Diaries Trilogy. It tells the story of the Baxters, an ordinary suburban family whose world is turned upside down when their youngest becomes a vampire. (Vampire...).
Director: Phil Messerer.
Writer: Phil Messerer.
Cast: Devon Bailey, Ellis Cahill, JoJo Hristova, Michael Strelow,...
A synopsis for "The Vampire Diaries: Thicker Than Water" here...
Thicker Than Water is the first part in the Vampire Diaries Trilogy. It tells the story of the Baxters, an ordinary suburban family whose world is turned upside down when their youngest becomes a vampire. (Vampire...).
Director: Phil Messerer.
Writer: Phil Messerer.
Cast: Devon Bailey, Ellis Cahill, JoJo Hristova, Michael Strelow,...
- 6/18/2009
- by Michael Ross Allen
- 28 Days Later Analysis
I was thinking they were already kinda Addams-esque, the Baxter family of this low-budget horror comedy, when we first meet them. There’s bored, gothy, 16-year-old Lara (Eilis Cahill), who loathes her twin sister, Marilyn-wholesome Helen (Devon Bailey); their sweetly demented older brother, Raymond (Michael Strelow); and Lord-morbid Mom (JoJo Hristova). But then vampirisim strikes the clan, and things really get creepy. Gruesomely agreeable twists on standard vampire motifs abound in this elegantly ambitious film -- the first part of a promised trilogy from writer-director Phil Messerer -- not just in how it plays with bloodsucker lore but in how it plays with how we expect such movies to turn. Yes, it’s hilariously grisly, and yes, it’s sarcastically funny, but it’s remarkably adept, too, at bringing a depth of emotion to what would certainly be the very real trauma of watching a loved one descend into a sickness both mental and physical.
- 6/10/2009
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
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