The Night Flier (1997)

November 28th, 2008

The Night Flier is a horror short story by Stephen King, first published in the anthology Prime Evil: New Stories by the Masters of Modern Horror, and then in King’s own 1993 Nightmares and Dreamscapes collection.

Was made into a 1997 film of the same title.

The story concerns a deeply cynical and jaded reporter and photographer named Richard Dees, who works for a fictional tabloid magazine called The Inside View. Dees’ current subject of investigation is the Night Flier, an individual who travels between small airports in a Cessna Skymaster, gruesomely killing people in a way that leads Dees to think the man is a lunatic who believes himself to be a vampire. After only a few days of interviewing witnesses and following the killer’s trail in his own Cessna, Dees overtakes the Night Flier during a violent thunderstorm, and quickly learns that he is badly mistaken about his would-be quarry: it is, indeed, a vampire that is doing the killings. After Dees watches the Night Flier casually empty the bloody contents of his bladder into an airport urinal (or as much of this act as he can see reflected in a mirror), the creature warns off his “would-be biographer”, destroys his photographic evidence, and leaves the mortally-shaken reporter amidst a scene of carnage to be arrested by the police.

The movie adaptation follows the original plot fairly closely (and maintains Dees’ deeply unsympathetic nature), except for adding a rival in the form of up-and-coming female reporter, and changing Dees’ ultimate fate.

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Lifeforce (1985)

November 28th, 2008

Lifeforce is a 1985 science fiction film directed by Tobe Hooper from a screenplay by Dan O’Bannon and Don Jakoby, from the novel Space Vampires by Colin Wilson. The film starred Steve Railsback, Peter Firth, Frank Finlay, Mathilda May, Patrick Stewart, Aubrey Morris, Michael Gothard, and Nicholas Ball. The film bombed on its original release, but has since become a cult classic.

While investigating Halley’s Comet, a space mission aboard the space shuttle Churchill finds a large spaceship hidden in the comet’s nucleus. Upon entering the spacecraft, the shuttle crew finds three human bodies, two male and one female (played by Mathilda May), in suspended animation in the spacecraft. The shuttle starts the return trip to Earth with the three beings. On Earth, Mission Control loses communication with the shuttle. As it nears Earth, a rescue mission is conducted. The rescuers find the Churchill gutted by fire, except for the three suspended animation cases bearing the aliens. The three are taken to earth where they eventually unleash havoc. They are actually members of a race of space vampires that consume the lifeforce from living beings and send it to their ship.

The three vampires escape from confinement and proportionally transform most of London’s population into zombies. Once transformed, the victims cycle into living-dead every two hours and seek out the living, absorbing the life force from their bodies. These people then also become vampires and the transformation process releases their life force which the male vampires direct to the female vampire who transfers it to the waiting spaceship in Earth’s orbit.

The shuttle mission’s only survivor, a British colonel and a scientist attempt to destroy the space vampires before they subjugate the planet.

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Underworld: Evolution (2006)

November 28th, 2008

The movie opens in the year 1202 AD in which an army led by three vampire elders (Markus, Viktor, and Amelia) arrives at a ravaged village. The vampire army is attacked by Lycans, and a battle erupts. Viktor and Amelia capture Markus’s brother William Corvinus, the first and most powerful werewolf. Viktor orders that William be imprisoned in a secret location forever.

The story then continues the present-day timeline, starting immediately after the events of the first film. Selene takes Michael to a vampire safe house so that she can return to the mansion to confront Kraven, the traitor from the first movie. However, Singe’s blood has already awakened Markus, who wipes out the entire remnant of Kraven and his men and the mansion as retribution for Viktor’s treachery. He learns Selene and Michael’s location from camera surveillance of various safe houses and leaves to track them down. When confronted by Markus, Selene defends her actions, and Markus agrees that Viktor got what he deserved. However, he believes Selene is hiding something and attacks her; Michael intervenes and protects her. Markus tries and fails to get hold of the pendant that the two have in their possession, which they were given by Lucian. They escape and seek refuge in an abandoned warehouse. During that time, they make love to one another.

Meanwhile, Lorenz Macaro, an elderly and imposing man, sends in a team of “Cleaners” to investigate the aftermath from the final battle in the first movie. When Macaro examines Viktor’s body he finds a metal disk attached to his ribcage similar to Sonja’s pendant, which Selene and Michael possessed. Now knowing that the pendant is of some importance to Markus, Michael and Selene set out to solve its mystery. Selene recalls that she’d seen it as a child, but doesn’t know its significance. To find answers, they travel to the hideout of Andreas Tanis, who is an exiled vampire historian and old enemy of Selene, as she was the one who exiled him. After dispatching the various Lycans and Vampires guarding Tanis, they confront him and discover that Tanis had been secretly trading vampire-killing weapons with Lycans and forces him to tell them as much as he can.

Tanis reveals that Markus, not Viktor, was the first vampire. One of the two sons of Alexander Corvinus, he was bitten by a bat and became a vampire; his twin brother, William Corvinus, was bitten by a wolf and became a Lycan. Unlike later Lycans, William and the Lycans created by him are entirely animal and unable to take human form again. Due to William’s wanton destructiveness, Markus approached Viktor, a warlord dying of old age, and offered to turn him and his army into immortal vampires in exchange for tracking down and stopping William. As seen in the film’s opening flashback, Markus intended to capture his brother and tame him, but Viktor betrays Markus and orders William locked away forever. Viktor is ultimately falsely regarded as the first vampire and is happy to assume this role as both William and Markus are in hibernation. He does not kill the brothers because he believes doing so would result in the immediate extinction of all other vampires and Lycans. Killing William would mean Viktor would lose his slaves and killing Markus would kill Viktor himself. Tanis also reveals that Selene’s father was the architect who built William’s prison and that the pendant is a key. Viktor thought that her family knew too much about its location, so he killed and fed on them and then turned Selene into a vampire. Tanis then refers Selene and Michael to Lorenz Macaro, stating he can help stop Markus. Shortly after they leave, Markus arrives and questions Tanis. He then kills Tanis to absorb his memories.

Selene and Michael go to see Lorenz Macaro, whom Selene realizes is actually Alexander Corvinus, Markus and William’s father and the oldest of the immortals. He reveals he has devoted his life to containing the vampire-lycan war away from the mortal world. However, Alexander refuses to help kill Markus as he is his son. Their debate is stopped when Markus attacks the boat. He learns the location of William’s hidden prison by drinking Selene’s blood and proceeds to kill Michael and mortally wound Alexander to obtain the other half of the pendant. Markus reveals that he wishes to become a god and rule a race of Hybrids. Once Markus has left, Selene talks with the dying Alexander and he has her drink his blood, stating that by doing so she will become ‘the future’.

Selene leads the cleaners to the prison to confront and destroy Markus, but Markus has already freed William. A battle ensues in which Selene and the Cleaners seem to be losing. William bites the Cleaners and begins turning them into Lycans. Michael, presumed to be dead inside his bodybag, suddenly regenerates and joins the fight in his Hybrid form. Michael ultimately kills William, while Selene then kills Markus. Michael and Selene, the only survivors, stand in the morning sun. Selene reveals that she is no longer harmed by ultraviolet light. As the film ends, Selene narrates that she fears the days ahead, but is nevertheless hopeful.

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Blade: Trinity (2004)

November 28th, 2008

The vampires succeed in framing Blade for the killing of a human (a familiar being used as bait when posing as a vampire). Blade, now in the public’s eye and wanted by the FBI, is forced into hiding with his mentor, Abraham Whistler. A few days later, the FBI attack the hideout. During the siege, Whistler destroys the hideout after being mortally wounded, killing him in the ensuing explosion. The loss of his mentor allows Blade to be captured easily.

As the police prepare to hand Blade over to a group of vampires, Blade is rescued by Hannibal King and Abigail, Whistler’s daughter. The two head a group of vampire hunters called the Nightstalkers, formed by Blade’s mentor to assist him. Blade reluctantly joins the group after learning King was once a vampire. King and Abigail reveal that Danica Talos (Parker Posey), who was the vampire who bit King, has located and resurrected the ancient first vampire, Dracula (Dominic Purcell) (who is referred to as Drake throughout the film). Talos hopes that by resurrecting Dracula, he (Drake) will help save the vampire race and eliminate Blade. In his first confrontation with Blade, Drake shows a sort of affinity for the “Daywalker”, as they are both “honorable warriors” (somewhat ironically, while Drake is delivering his speech about honor, he is hiding behind a newborn baby he has taken hostage). During the beginning of the chaos, King is incapacitated by Drake.

Blade eventually learns of a bioweapon the Nightstalkers had created called Daystar. The weapon is capable of killing any and all vampires in a nearby area. However, there are two catches: The first is that Drake’s blood must be infused with the virus. As he is the first vampire, his DNA is still pure, which, infused with Daystar, will make it work to its maximum capacity. The second: the virus has a possibility of killing Blade, as he is a half-vampire.

Blade and Abigail learn of the vampire “final solution”, which involves several hundred human beings being kept alive in a comatose-like state in body bags. This keeps in line with vampires needing live food sources if the entire vampire race were to take over the world. Blade coldly has all of them killed, destroying their “final solution.”

The two return to find the Nightstalkers have been all but wiped out. The only exception is King, who has been kidnapped by Drake (disguised as Blade’s mentor, Whistler), who had also killed the rest of the Stalkers; and kidnaps a young girl named Zoe, the daughter of one of the Nightstalkers. Blade and Abigail have no choice but to rescue King from the Talos building where he had been chained and tortured for information, and where Drake also is hiding.

Meanwhile, King is tortured for information about Daystar. When this fails to get any information from him, Talos instead tells King that she will bite him again and leave him to feed on Zoe. Blade and Abigail eventually enter the building and the fighting begins. Abigail kills Danica Talos’ brother, Asher (Callum Keith Rennie) and King kills Jarko Grimwood (Triple H) while Blade engages Drake in a sword battle. In the end, Blade impales Drake with the Daystar arrow, which draws his blood and releases it into the air, killing all the nearby vampires, including Danica Talos. Drake dies after promising Blade a “parting gift.” The disease subsequently appears to kill Blade as well. The FBI later discover Blade’s body and call off their search. However, the corpse turns back into Drake’s at the morgue. The film ends with Blade driving off into the sunset to continue his war against vampires.

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Fright Night Part 2 (1988)

November 28th, 2008

Fright Night Part II starts three years after the events in Fright Night. Charlie, after receiving therapy is relieved of the thought of encountering a vampire, or believing they ever existed.

Charlie, along with his new girlfriend Alex Young go to visit Peter Vincent, who this time around is the true believer, much to the chagrin of the “cured” Charlie. It is while visiting his old friend, that Charlie sees four coffins being taken from a graveyard. On the way out from Peter’s apartment, Charlie sees four strange people walk past him, into an elevator.

The plot of the film follows around Regine, who is the sister of Jerry Dandridge from Fright Night, seeking to avenge the death of her brother through attacking Charlie and his friends.

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Van Helsing (2004)

November 28th, 2008

The film begins in black and white, set in Transylvania, 1887. Doctor Victor Frankenstein brings to life the Frankenstein’s Monster but his triumph is cut short when an angry mob infiltrates the castle. Dr. Frankenstein has been aided in his experiments by his deformed assistant Igor, and Count Dracula. Dracula reveals that he helped Frankenstein so he could use the Monster for his own purposes, later revealed to be using the Monster to bring his undead children to life. Frankenstein refuses to help Dracula and tries to kill him, only to discover the Count is already dead. Dracula kills Frankenstein, but the Monster breaks free, knocks Dracula into a fireplace and escapes to a windmill with his “father’s” body. The mob pursues him and burns down the windmill. The Monster and Frankenstein fall into the ruins of the windmill and disappear. Dracula (who survived the fireplace) and his three brides, Verona, Marishka and Aleera, arrive at the remains, their plans seemingly lost.

The film then leaps forward one year and changes to color, introducing Van Helsing a monster hunter who works for the Knights of the Holy Order at Vatican City.

After unintentionally killing Mr. Hyde in Paris, Van Helsing returns to the Vatican where he is assigned his next mission by a priest. He is sent to Transylvania to help the last of the Valerius family, Anna, to destroy Dracula; otherwise many generations of the family will never go to Heaven. This is because one of Anna’s ancestors vowed that his family would never rest in peace until Dracula is dead. Anna’s brother, Velkan Valerious, actively searches for various monsters. He is bitten and turns into a werewolf.

Van Helsing takes Carl with him, an intelligent but bumbling friar who doesn’t really mind blaspheming (as he swears several times and later sleeps with a Transylvanian woman). The two arrive in a town, where they meet Anna, who is the last Velarius after her brother Velkan fell into a river whilst fighting a werewolf. The three brides attack the town, but Van Helsing kills Marishka by firing arrows covered in holy water at her. Anna reluctantly accepts Van Helsing’s help and takes him to her castle home. That night, a werewolf shows up. He is revealed to be Velkan, bitten by the previous wolf. Velkan retreats to Frankenstein Castle with Van Helsing and Anna in pursuit, the werewolf killing a creepy gravedigger in the process. Velkan is strapped into a special device by Dracula, in order for Velkan to act as a conductor for electricity to bring Dracula’s children to life. The process works briefly, but the children begin to die shortly after birth. Anna releases Velkan but he becomes a werewolf again. Van Helsing meets Dracula, who addresses him as “Gabriel”. Van Helsing tries to stab him with a stake and burn him with a holy cross, but neither harm him.

Van Helsing and Anna escape but fall into an underground cavern, discovering the Frankenstien Monster hiding from Dracula. Anna suggests killing the Monster, but Van Helsing decides to take him to Rome to protect him from Dracula. Picking up Carl, the group (Van Helsing, Anna, Carl and the Monster) head off in horse-drawn carriages. However, the remaining brides and the Velkan werewolf chase after them. The carriage falls down a ravine, the brides pursuing it but discovering it is a decoy with a box of stakes inside. The carriage hits the ground and explodes, catapulting the stakes in all directions, some of which impale Verona and kill her. The real carriage containing the group nearly gets away, but the werewolf appears and set the carriage on fire. Van Helsing fires his shotguns on the werewolf and kills him. Anna finds Velkan shortly before he dies; she also discovers Van Helsing was bitten in the process and will become a werewolf. Anna is then kidnapped by Aleera, who bargains with Anna for the Monster. Instead, Van Helsing knocks the Monster out and places him in a tomb to keep him from being stolen. Van Helsing and Carl sneak into Dracula’s summer palace where a ball is occurring. Van Helsing rescues Anna from being bitten, but discovers the Monster has been captured by the undead, who are then sent after Van Helsing and the others. The undead are destroyed by a weapon created by Carl that releases a bright exploding lightsource.

The trio returns to Anna’s castle and piece together that Dracula was killed in the 1400s, made a deal with the Devil and became a vampire; Dracula is actually the son of Anna’s ancestor; and the only way to kill Dracula is by using a werewolf. The group then discover the door to Dracula’s lair: a large map owned by Anna’s deceased father. A missing piece is in the possession of Van Helsing, who received it from the Vatican priest. The three travel through the door and find an icy fortress: Dracula’s lair.

Inside, Van Helsing sees the Monster, who explains that Dracula has a werewolf cure. Anna and Carl force a captured Igor to take them to the cure, but are attacked by Aleera. Carl heads off with the cure to find Van Helsing, who must kill Dracula and receive the cure before the final stroke of midnight, or he will permanently become a werewolf. Carl is pursued by Igor, who attacks him with a tazer-like weapon. Van Helsing manages to free the Monster but not before Dracula’s children are brought to life. Dracula attacks Van Helsing, transforming into a demonic winged vampire. The Monster falls off a tower and is propelled through the air on a wire, which collides with Igor, sending him plummeting down a ravine to his demise. The Monster distracts Aleera, allowing Anna to escape. However, this distraction lasts for only so long when Aleera confronts Anna. Anna stabs Aleera with a concealed stake, killing her. Van Helsing, transformed into a werewolf, fights Dracula until the full moon is blocked out by clouds. Dracula takes this opportunity to reveal that Van Helsing is the Left Hand of God, another name for Gabriel, and it was he who killed him in the 1400s. Dracula attempts to get Van Helsing to be his partner. Van Helsing refuses, returns to werewolf form when the moon comes out again, and kills Dracula by biting his neck. Dracula and his children all die. Anna rushes in with the cure, after receiving it from Carl, and races to save Van Helsing, but he attacks and kills her in werewolf form. However, she has managed to inject him with the cure. Restored to humanity, he holds her body in his arms.

Van Helsing and Carl cremate Anna’s body by the ocean shore, honoring Anna’s unfulfilled desire to see the ocean. Van Helsing briefly sees a vision of Anna and her family in Heaven, before he and Carl head off back to Rome. The Monster, having survived, rows off on a raft to an unknown future.

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Blacula (1972)

November 28th, 2008

In 1780, Prince Mamuwalde (Marshall), the ruler of an African nation, seeks the help of Count Dracula (Charles Macaulay) in suppressing the slave trade. Dracula, who along with his other evils is revealed as a racist, not only refuses to help but also transforms Mamuwalde into a vampire (denigrating him with the name “Blacula” into the bargain) and imprisons him in a sealed coffin. Mamuwalde’s wife Luva (McGee) is also imprisoned but, not being a vampire, dies in captivity.

Almost two centuries later, in 1972, the coffin has been purchased as part of an estate by two gay interior decorators, and shipped to Los Angeles. The men open the coffin and become the vampire’s first victims. Mamuwalde travels around the city and soon encounters Tina (McGee), who appears to be a reincarnation of his deceased wife, and begins stalking her. This brings the vampire to the attention of Dr Gordon Thomas (Rasulala), who is helping Lt. Peters (Pinsent) with the investigation of the series of strange murders that are occurring, and whose girlfriend Michelle (Nicholas) is Tina’s sister (by an unlikely coincidence, Tina and Michelle are also friends of Bobby, one of the murdered gay men). Demond Williams from Sanford and Son also appears in this movie.

The film continues as the vampire kills several more victims and hypnotizes Tina, who falls in love with Mamuwalde. Meanwhile Thomas, Peters, and Michelle are following the trail of victims and come to realize that a vampire is responsible and Mamuwalde is their culprit. In the final scenes, the police shoot at Mamuwalde and Tina; he is unharmed but she is mortally wounded. Mamuwalde saves her by turning her into a vampire. Thomas, Peters, and Michelle find Tina and kill her with a stake through her heart. Mamuwalde decides that he does not want to go on after losing his love a second time and walks out through a subway tunnel into the sun to kill himself. We then see Mamuwalde melt and worms suck his flesh, and eat his bones.

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The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1974)

November 28th, 2008

The film opens with a Secret Service agent (Maurice O’Connell) who barely escapes from an English country house, in which satanic rituals are celebrated. Before he dies of his wounds, he reveals to his superiors that four prominent members of society – a government minister, a peer, a general and a famous scientist – are involved in the cult. In order to avoid any reprisals by the minister, the secret service call in Scotland Yard’s Inspector Murray (Michael Coles) to work on the case independently. Murray, who had appeared in the preceding Dracula film, suggests consulting Professor Lorrimer Van Helsing (Cushing).

The cult kidnaps the Secret service secretary Jane (Valerie Van Ost), who is later bitten by Dracula (Lee).

Murray, Secret Service agent Torrence (William Franklyn), and Van Helsing’s granddaughter Jessica (Joanna Lumley) arrive at the country house, where they discover several vampire women chained up in the cellar, including Jane who’s now a vampire herself. Murray stakes Jane and the three escape the grounds.

Meanwhile, Van Helsing pays a visit to his scientist friend Julian Keeley (Freddie Jones), whom he had recognized among the four conspirators, and finds him mentally unstable and involved on bacteriological research aiming at creating a virulent strain of the Bubonic plague. Van Helsing is shot unconscious by a guard. As he wakes up, Keeley’s dead body hangs from the ceiling while the petri dishes containing the bacteria are gone.

Keeley had referred to the 23rd of the month, which Van Helsing reveals to be the Sabbath of the Undead. Keeley’s research leads Van Helsing to the reclusive property developer D. D. Denham, who funded Keeley’s research. Van Helsing also suspects a reincarnated Dracula behind the plot, suggests that Dracula wants to exact revenge on humanity and speculates about a secret death wish on the Count’s part. Van Helsing visits Denham in his headquarters (built on top of the church yard Dracula died in the previous film) and finds out that he actually is Count Dracula. He tries to shoot Dracula with a silver bullet but is beaten by the Count’s conspirators. Dracula decides that killing Van Helsing would be too simple and has him transferred to the country house.

Meanwhile, Jessica, Murray and Torrence, while observing the country house, are attacked by snipers. Torrence is killed, while Murray and Jessica are captured. Murray awakes in the cellar and escapes the clutches of the female vampires, just as Dracula arrives with Van Helsing.

Dracula announces to Van Helsing and the ministers that Jessica, who is laid out on the satanist altar, will be his consort, uncorrupted by the plague that his “four horsemen” – including Van Helsing – would carry out into the world. The conspirators, who had considered the plague a mere deterrent, not to be used, begin to question their master but Dracula’s hypnotic command stops them and causes the minister (Richard Mathews) to break the vial, releasing the bacteria and immediately infecting the minister, causing him horrible suffering.

Murray runs into a guard in the computer room, but overpowers him after a fight scene. The guard’s metal baton smashes a computer panel and the ensuing explosion starts a fire and breaks open the ritual room. The two uninfected conspirators escape, Murray rescues Jessica, while the infected minister burns in the fire. Dracula attacks Van Helsing, who escapes through a window into the woods. He lures Dracula into a Hawthorn tree, a plant symbolising good as it provided Christ with his Crown of thorns, where Dracula is entangled until Van Helsing drives a stake through his heart.

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)

November 28th, 2008

In every generation there is a Chosen One. She alone will stand against the vampires, the demons, and the forces of darkness. She is the Slayer.

Buffy (Kristy Swanson) is a popular cheerleader at Hemery High School in Los Angeles. She is a care-free popular girl whose main concerns are shopping and spending time with her friends. She is soon approached by a man named Merrick Jamison-Smythe (Donald Sutherland). He informs her that she is The Slayer and he is a Watcher that has been sent to train and guide her. At first she refuses to accept her duties, but eventually sees there is no other way. She admits that she has dreams of past Slayers and reluctantly acknowledges that she is the Chosen One. She runs into Pike (Luke Perry), who is seen as a loser in her school. He becomes the “damsel in distress”, being rescued by Buffy many times.

After brief training, she is drawn into conflict with a local vampire king called Lothos (Rutger Hauer), who has killed a number of past Slayers. Lothos kills Merrick, giving Buffy the motivation she needs. In a climactic battle set at the senior dance in her high school, Buffy defeats Lothos and his minions by being true to her own contemporary style and ignoring the conventions and limitations of previous Slayers.

Contrary to popular belief Buffy does not burn down the gym at the climax of the film. That element existed in Joss Whedon’s original script but was not incorporated into the final production. In the Buffyverse it is his script, not the film, that is considered canon; thus the references in the television program to Buffy having burnt it down.

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The Forsaken (2001)

November 28th, 2008

Sean (Kerr Smith) is driving cross country to his sister’s wedding when he picks up Nick (Brendan Fehr), a hitchhiker who happens to be a vampire hunter hunting a group of vampires led by Kit (Jonathan Schaech), one of the Forsaken.

The Forsaken are a group of French Knights that during the First Crusade made a pact with the demon Abbadon to live forever. There were nine knights: eight were turned into vampires and became known as the Forsaken the ninth was a sacrifice to Abaddon to seal the pact. Of the eight, four are dead, one is in Europe, one in Africa and two in the United States including the one Nick is tracking. Nick was bitten by a vampire but thanks to a drug cocktail the vampire virus is kept at bay. Each of the Forsaken carry a unique strain of the virus and killing the Forsaken kills the entire strain of virus killing all the vampires descended from it and stopping anyone just infected from turning which is why Nick is hunting this particular Forsaken: he believes him to be the one that his strain of the vampire virus is decended from and that if he kills him he will not eventually turn into a vampire (the drug cocktail eventually will lose effect). At first Sean is less than willing to indulge his new acquaintance, but then they find Megan (Izabella Miko), a girl Sean finds he is attracted to, bitten and left for dead by the vampires. Nick also proves he is telling the truth by killing a vampire, Teddy, by exposure to sunlight.

When Sean is infected with the vampire virus (Megan bites his hand while he’s covering her mouth), their only hope is to kill the vampire leader before it is too late. The Forsaken must be slain on hallowed ground so the three head for a Spanish mission 60 miles away – chased by the vampires and their day driver Penn. After a battle on the road Penn is killed and the car is running out of gas as its tank was shot so they are unable to reach the mission. They stop at a gas station where an old woman named Ina lets them in after seeing Megan. She shows them a newspaper connecting Megan to a bloodbath in Arizona; when Megan wakes up and is coherent enough to talk, she explains she was a victim of the vampires’ bloodbath (led by Kit) and after Kit bit her he left Teddy to kill her, which she did not do for some reason. Kit and Cym then catch up to them and lay siege to the gas station.

Sean discovers a graveyard outside and Ina explains that it is an old Spanish graveyard that was never dug up, making the house hallowed ground and thus a suitable place to kill Kit. In the following battle, Sean kills Cym with Ina’s shotgun but both he and Nick are injured and Kit forces him to be his new day driver then goes after Ina and Megan. As Kit is about to kill them Sean drives his car through the gas station wall and pins Kit to the wall, hoping to hold him there until the sun rises. Kit pushes the car back when it runs out of gas due to the hole in the tank but Sean then shoots him, knocking him into a beam of sunlight and shooting him again when he manages to escape the light. As Kit starts to combust, Sean, Nick, Megan and Ina flee the gas station; Kit’s explosive death ignites the gas. It seems Sean, Nick and Megan are finally clear of the vampire virus, but Nick is not cured as it turns out that the vampire responsible for his infection is descended from the other of the two Forsaken in the United States.

Nick takes to the road to try to find and kill the other Forsaken, leaving a letter of thanks for Sean. However, Sean catches up to him driving Kit’s car and insists on helping, having discovered that the Forsaken is probably in Denver. The two set off for Denver.

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