You all killed it with the vampire and 90’s look guesses.
So it’s called Blood and Donuts, a low-budget horror…ish title hailing out of Canada. I still recall distinctly watching it late at night years ago on some random cable channel, and finding myself drawn in completely in the sort of way that only the low-key late-night oddities can do. Ever since then I’ve championed the movie to friends despite it maybe not being as enjoyable to them as it is for me.
It begins with our protagonist Boya, a sullen vampire who had given up taking human life, deciding around the time of the Apollo 11 moon landing that he was done with the world and locks himself up in an old building to hibernate. Fast-forward 25 years, a random unsettling of debris wakes Boya up from the extended slumber and leaves him physically drained and emotionally stunted as he attempts to cope with the new changes to the world he had left behind.
The movie mostly centers around Boya’s encounters at a local all-night donut shop in what looks to be a somewhat shitty and rundown part of the city, where he finds himself pulled into the orbit of and befriended by Earl, a local cabbie with some dangerous problems, and also finds himself becoming drawn towards Molly, the girl working the donut shop, who herself finds it difficult to resist Boya’s latent vampiric charms.
To go further would be spoiling more of the story, but there’s a general kind of dry and understated humor to the whole picture, with a couple moments of violence or low-intensity action in the mix, and a strangeness to the supernatural elements that sort of ties the whole room together, man.
Blood and Donuts stars Gordan Currie as Boya the Vampire, Louis Ferreira as Earl the Cabbie, Helene Clarkson as Molly the Donut Girl, and David Cronenberg in small cameo role as a local crime boss operating out of a Bowling Alley. If anyone finds themselves interested in checking it out, it’s streaming on Amazon Prime and I believe Shudder as well. As I ran out of frames after the 80:80, I’ll leave you all with a bonus frame of David Cronenberg’s strange, almost Coen Brothers-esque crime boss.
And I’ll post a new 20:20 here shortly.
