Viola vs the Vampire King
She walks hesitantly, following a map which looks as though it was written by a child, yet Viola knows exactly what she is doing as she approaches Spider Web Forest, ignoring the obvious warnings on the path and seeking out the ancient enemy she knows is within, the Vampire King who killed her sister.
Appearing as if on cue, the Vampire King accepts the challenge of the young woman, knowing that her meagre skills are no match for his own, he who on the night of the new moon ravaged her village, he who took from them their most precious thing, Rosalina, making her his undead bride.
Shot on gloriously colour-saturated Kodak Super 8, Viola vs the Vampire King is a short film written and directed by Death Walks on Nitrate‘s Kevin Fermini, starring Sarah Schum as Viola the Fearless, brave and determined, Dan Levine as the Vampire King, undefeated and assured, and Lizzie Freilich as Rosalina, caught between two worlds and held up as a prize.
Shot in rural Ithaca in New York State with the stylised swordplay and action of wuxia transposed into an American Saturday morning cartoon, Viola vs the Vampire King is consciously lo-fi, making a virtue of the budgetary limitations and instead played entirely for fun as the bonds of family fights back against the power of blood, two girls fighting against expectation and making the forest their own.
Viola vs the Vampire King will be available on the the Arrow platform from Friday 13th September
