Blood & Donuts1995
“There is a place between the living and the dead... and it's open 24 hours”
Directed by Holly Dale
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🏆 3 nominations
The premise
In 1994, in Toronto, the vampire Boya awakens from his twenty-five years of sleep in a basement hit by a golf ball. He takes a cab to the local cemetery, retrieves his belongings from a grave and lodges in a low budget hotel nearby an all-night donut shop. Boya does not drink human blood anymore but rats and pigeons blood instead. While in the donut shop, Boya befriends and protects the taxi driver Earl, who is having trouble with two criminals, and falls in love for the waitress Molly. Meanwhile, his former passion of 1969, Rita, who misses her lost youth, is trying to locate him.
Horror Vault's take
A centuries-old vampire resurfaces in mid-nineties Toronto after a decades-long slumber, trading gothic grandeur for greasy-spoon normalcy — rats, pigeons, and an all-night donut shop. Boya is a creature of the night who'd rather be left alone, but a cash-strapped cabbie and a warm-hearted waitress pull him reluctantly back into the world of the living. The film wraps its fangs around deadpan Canadian humour and a genuinely melancholic undercurrent, making it as much a character study as a creature feature. Cult appeal is baked in from the first scene.
Content: Mild Violence, Threat And Intimidation, Brief Bloody Imagery
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