Wes (Drew Marvick) wants to be a monster hunter, even if he isn’t very good at it. Yet when he meets a coven of vampiric ladies — Scarlett (Nina Lanee Kent, Murdercise, which was also made by co-directors Angelica De Alba and Paul Ragsdale), Selena (Adriana Uchishiba), Zooey (Meredith Mohler) and Reese (Kansas Bowling) — Wes pitches the idea of a subscription app where users pay for encounters that stop just short of death. This creates a bizarre symbiotic relationship: the vampires get a steady, safe food supply and Wes gets the fame and money he failed to find as a monster hunter.

Great title. Decent poster. And this is shot well, too. Perhaps it doesn’t need to be two hours in length, but it remains fun throughout, even if the motivations of the vampires go from bad to good a few too many times. As the vamps add more women to their blood cult, including Wes’ mother Mimi (Ginger Lynn!), the power all goes to some of their heads.

This also has Jessa Jupiter Flux as Gwen, Wes’ camerawoman sister, and their assistant — and total geek — Quentin (Shane Meyers). So much of the movie is told in montage, but you also get to see plenty of gorgeous vampiric vixens, including Regina (adult star Little Puck), Penelope (Ellie Church), Eva (Bebe Bardot), Neve (Delawna McKinney), Siren (August Kyss), Ronnie (Satta Murray) and Zara (Lo Espinosa). One of them even remarks that she’s excited to be like one of the girls in The Vampire Lovers!

The girls also have to stay ahead of their former master, Harvey (Nick Zagone), conspiracy-obsessed incels and true love. I really loved that Scarlett is so pro-women-in-charge, anti-capitalist, and all about turning other women on to give them a taste of what power is like. 

The film employs a rich palette of pinks, purples, and blues, which masks its indie budget and gives it a dreamlike, music-video quality during its many montages. This improves on the day-for-night flashback at the beginning, and the film looks uniformly good from that point on. The montages drag a bit and some of the elements are confusing, like is Scarlett good or evil and what’s this about a vampire war that gets forgotten just after it’s brought up. But for an indie feature, it’s way more visually interesting than most stuff out there and has its heart in the right — and most fun — place.

You can watch this on Bloodstream.