Week 10 (Aug 23 – 29) – Mill Creek’s Mausoleum of Mumblegore: The indie wing of low-budget horror or the horror wing of low-budget indie.
What starts as a bizarre collision between Internet hook-ups, Thuggee cult lore and 17th-century Hungarian history soon spirals into a gritty descent into supernatural horror. Two lesbian art teachers—Jennifer Sommers (Leslie Frank) and Lupe (Cyn Dulay)—are fiercely obsessed with eternal youth. After securing the dark diaries of the infamous blood-countess Elizabeth Bathory, the duo decides that theory needs to translate into practice.
Following a grim introductory ritual involving an unsuspecting online date, the pair sets their sights on a local student, Amy (Ruby Gonzalez). Once Amy falls victim to a bloody sacrifice in the tub, as all Camilla and Bathory lesbian vampire stories demand,
the rules of reality bend: her corpse rises, the teachers undergo a terrifying transformation into feral, flesh-eating vampires, and the neighborhood becomes a hunting ground. Enter Amy’s boyfriend Steve (Mark Edwards) and his friends, who team up with a reluctant, cynical history professor named Nashy — yes, that is a reference, and he’s played by director Ricardo Islas — to unravel the bloody mystery before the night swallows them all whole.
Though set against an urban American backdrop with classic indie-horror sensibilities, Night Fangs is an English-language production from Uruguay. The film leans heavily into real-world historical infamy, drawing upon the legends of Elizabeth Bathory—the 17th-century Hungarian countess famously accused of torturing and murdering hundreds of young women. Night Fangs takes the historical record a step further by linking Bathory’s bloodlust to an ancient Thuggee cult.
If Joe Bob reviewed this, this would be the line he’d use:
Roderick: Don’t you believe in vampires and shit, anyways?
Professor Nashy: I might believe in vampires, but I don’t believe in shit.
This is way better than it has any right to be. I mean, female vampires always make me happy, but this could have been male gaze bullshit. Instead, it’s something much stranger.
You can watch this on Tubi.
