Dark Town

AKA's:

Cidade Sombria / Dark Town - Die Nacht Der Vampire / Immortal Ecstasy

Release Date:

2004 USA

Running time:

88' (cover 88') - Source: DVD (RC 1/NTSC)

Rating:

Germ.: 18; UK: 18; US: R

Main Crew:

Director: Desi Scarpone (Deadfall 2003; Retribution 2003)
Producer: Peninsula Films / Orloc Productions
Score: Erik Godal / Mark Fontana
Writer: David Birke
Director of photography: Adam Tash

Cast:

Summary:

On a night when their quiet suburban neighbourhood is plagued by mysterious blackouts, the tight-knit Armstrong clan presses on with its plans to celebrate the birthday of the head of their family, Curtis Armstrong Sr. They have no idea how truly cursed this family gathering will be!
As the family tensely awaits his return, Curtis is out in the chaos of the blacked-out city on a mission to evict squatters from one of his downtown properties. What he finds in that crumbling building are no ordinary squatters. Instead he comes face to face with an Old World horror intent on spreading its evil in the New World. When Curtis returns to his family, he is a changed man - infected with an ancient plague that corrupts the soul, even as it transforms the flesh. As family blood is spilled and shared, the Armstrong home soon becomes a den of Vampires.
As the neighbourhood becomes overrun by the bloodthirsty beasts, two sets of late arrivals walk in unaware of the developing situation. Can they survive? And what does survival mean in a hell where souls are much a delicacy as blood?

Note:

- The film was loosely inspired by Mario Bava's Black Sabbath and by Tolstoy's short story "The Wurdalak", with a blackout replacing the Siberian wilderness as the force that isolates the family that falls victim to a grim patriarch.

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