''Vampire Clan'' is a 2002 American
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horror film
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directed by John Webb. It received its premiere screening at the 2002 Dances With Films Festival.
Plot
Based on the horrific true story of the 1996 "Vampire Killings" in
Murray, Kentucky
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, the film follows the police investigation of five
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teenagers who claimed to be real-life
vampire
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s. They drank each other's blood and embraced the
occult
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. But they were also ordinary, middle-class kids looking for an outlet for their angst and morbid curiosity. Somewhere along their road trip to
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, their fantasy life became all too real. Now the police have two savagely beaten corpses on their hands—parents of the teenaged vampires. What really happened? And how did these normal kids become such
monster
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s?
Cast
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Drew Fuller
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as
Roderick 'Rod' Justin Farrell
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Alexandra Breckenridge
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as Charity Lynn Keesee
* Timothy DePriest as Howard Scott Anderson
* Marina Black as Dana Lynn Cooper
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Jennifer Edwards
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Edwards's best known role was the NBC made-for-television movie ''Heidi'' ( ...
as Jodi Remington
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Kelly Kruger
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as Heather Ann Wendorf
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Richard Gilliland
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as Sgt. Ben Odom
* Larry Dirk as Sheriff Mike Dane
* Stacy Hogue as Jeni Wendorf
*
Spencer Redford as Jeanine Leclair
* Mimi Craven as Ruth Wendorf
*David Wells as Rick Wendorf
Reception
Critical reception for the film has been mixed.
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was also mixed, stating that it "had some decent acting and tunes and at times, slick directing, but on the whole, rubbed me the wrong way from every freaking angle. I just couldn’t find an anchor to the story and I truly, and I mean TRULY, despised the characters in it." ''
Variety
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'' panned the film, writing "From its ripped-from-the-headlines topic of teen bloodsuckers to the blandness of a low-budgeter shockingly low on shocks, true story of the murder of a family is translated by scripter Aaron Pope into a woefully standard depiction of wayward youth."
References
External links
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2002 horror films
2002 films
American horror drama films
2000s English-language films
2000s American films
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