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A secluded colony of child vampires come under attack from vengeful villagers in this darkly funny horror tale by Argentinean filmmaker Ivan Noel. A journalist visits a secluded orphanage where children suffer from an unknown skin disease. She soon learns that they are in fact not children, but vampires aging from 4 to 120 years old forever remain in that physical state. They are led and protected by a strange and deeply religious ex-nurse whose destiny in life is to find these lost souls and raise them in her sanctuary. Through religious teachings, nocturnal rituals and the occasional visit to local towns for fresh human blood, she keeps them safe, that is until a cultish band of men from a nearby village plot to destroy the refuge. Now the children, headed by the 90-year-old grandson of Count Dracula, must defend their way of life.

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Haunting and wholly original...bites down with bloody glee! --The Tampa Tribune

A daring, confrontational but also very sweet film. It s a playful, poetic horror film with a disquieting beauty among bursts of inventive violence. A must for fans of outsider horror and thoughtful, meditative cinema, this is brave and confrontational filmmaking with a wry sense of humour and head-on approach to its themes. --ScreamHorrorMag.com

Haunting and inventive film. recommend it to anyone looking for lighthearted horror. The movie feels like a cross between Shakespeare's A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM and an older Hammer Dracula film. --Shattered Ravings

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  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ Unrated (Not Rated)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.35 x 6.77 x 0.55 inches; 0.21 ounces
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ 24
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Ivan Noel
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Subtitled, Blu-ray
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 40 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ October 6, 2015
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Toto Munoz, Lauro Veron, Ana Maria Giunta, Sabrina Ramos
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ French, English
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Artsploitation
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B013WVM4IE
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
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An exquisite arthouse film, not a campy B-horror flic
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An exquisite arthouse film, not a campy B-horror flic
There are always at least two stories to an Ivan Noel film. Of course there is the film's story (along with its numerous back-stories). Then there is the "making of" story, which is much more than the featurette--it also comes out in the director's commentary. While that might be said of most movies, for Noel's films, the "making of" is easily the most intriguing of the stories, especially in this movie.Unfortunately, the distributor packaged and retitled it to try to appeal to a wider, baser audience. Try to find noelfilms original art to get a better idea of the film.For a low-budget film, there is no skimping on the location. I suspect that travel and location expenses were almost his entire budget.This movie turns a number of popular conceptions upside down. It certainly gives new meaning to the term "Child Predator". While most vampire movies tend to portray vampires as a parody of religion, this one shows religion as a parody of vampires. I took my mother to a spanish-language mass last xmas, presided over by a vatican-trained priest, who genuinely believes that the wine and cracker turns into the blood and body of christ. So I was amused by the star's reference to this rite.There are a few easter eggs hidden in scenes that are on the screen for a fraction of a second. I won't spoil these by giving any more detail.It's a fun movie, but with many layers. Any aversion one might have to showing children being harmed, is offset by showing how much fun that have making the movie.I hope he someday makes a director's cut, or at least posts the out-takes somewhere.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on October 29, 2024
    I loved this film! Vampire kids, funny moments, but not for the shallow of heart. Very interesting take on the whole vampire genre. And the kids (many locals I understand), are just amazing. Several, stunningly beautiful to watch. I'm very visual, and as an American, starved to death for the natural aspects of our own physicality we've been robbed of out of fear. I love tastefully done scenes of nudity. As Oscar Wilde once said, "Those who see evil in beautiful things, are they themselves corrupt". There are sadly no nude scenes in this film. But still, a gem to buy. Glad I did.
  • Reviewed in the United States on November 13, 2016
    Spanish with English subtitles. What a delightful sleeper. A reporter ( Sabrina Ramos, as Alicia ) receives an email invitation by a Nun ( And Maria Giunta as Erda )to do a story at her Orphanage, "Limbo". A country orphanage where children are dying of a "so called" mysterious, incurable disease. Alicia is told that the disease cause a "photosensitivity" in the children. A symptom that is suppose to explain why the children sleep all day and are only awake and playing during the day. Little by little Alicia begins to feel that she recognizes many of the children's faces. She is also surprised by the fact that one of the children and the Nun know very personal things about her past. Especially one of the young boys, who seems quite smitten by her.

    The story line is in some way familiar. Kids vs. adults, the strong targeting the weak, but it goes deeper than that. Hence the paranormal / horror part of the storyline. There are some good twists. Some predictability. But a good watch. It is not a N. American movie, so of course, sexuality and children is handled differently than in the US. It doesn't really cross any boundaries. But the issue comes up. But not in the way one would think. It comes up very naturally given the circumstances and is handled very well. IMO. But this is an adult movie.

    This movie was filmed in Argentina. They definitely have some beautiful children in that country, because there were some strikingly beautiful babies in this cast. And very good actors. Sabrina Ramos did a wonderful job as the "straight to business" reporter, as did the comedic and expressive Maria Giunta. Young actors Toto Muñoz did an amazing job playing an old soul in a young body. And the enchanting, cat eyed Lauro Veron played his role well also. I say this movie is worth reading the subtitles. It's a good watch.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2016
    There are always at least two stories to an Ivan Noel film. Of course there is the film's story (along with its numerous back-stories). Then there is the "making of" story, which is much more than the featurette--it also comes out in the director's commentary. While that might be said of most movies, for Noel's films, the "making of" is easily the most intriguing of the stories, especially in this movie.

    Unfortunately, the distributor packaged and retitled it to try to appeal to a wider, baser audience. Try to find noelfilms original art to get a better idea of the film.

    For a low-budget film, there is no skimping on the location. I suspect that travel and location expenses were almost his entire budget.

    This movie turns a number of popular conceptions upside down. It certainly gives new meaning to the term "Child Predator". While most vampire movies tend to portray vampires as a parody of religion, this one shows religion as a parody of vampires. I took my mother to a spanish-language mass last xmas, presided over by a vatican-trained priest, who genuinely believes that the wine and cracker turns into the blood and body of christ. So I was amused by the star's reference to this rite.

    There are a few easter eggs hidden in scenes that are on the screen for a fraction of a second. I won't spoil these by giving any more detail.

    It's a fun movie, but with many layers. Any aversion one might have to showing children being harmed, is offset by showing how much fun that have making the movie.

    I hope he someday makes a director's cut, or at least posts the out-takes somewhere.
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    An exquisite arthouse film, not a campy B-horror flic

    Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2016
    There are always at least two stories to an Ivan Noel film. Of course there is the film's story (along with its numerous back-stories). Then there is the "making of" story, which is much more than the featurette--it also comes out in the director's commentary. While that might be said of most movies, for Noel's films, the "making of" is easily the most intriguing of the stories, especially in this movie.

    Unfortunately, the distributor packaged and retitled it to try to appeal to a wider, baser audience. Try to find noelfilms original art to get a better idea of the film.

    For a low-budget film, there is no skimping on the location. I suspect that travel and location expenses were almost his entire budget.

    This movie turns a number of popular conceptions upside down. It certainly gives new meaning to the term "Child Predator". While most vampire movies tend to portray vampires as a parody of religion, this one shows religion as a parody of vampires. I took my mother to a spanish-language mass last xmas, presided over by a vatican-trained priest, who genuinely believes that the wine and cracker turns into the blood and body of christ. So I was amused by the star's reference to this rite.

    There are a few easter eggs hidden in scenes that are on the screen for a fraction of a second. I won't spoil these by giving any more detail.

    It's a fun movie, but with many layers. Any aversion one might have to showing children being harmed, is offset by showing how much fun that have making the movie.

    I hope he someday makes a director's cut, or at least posts the out-takes somewhere.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on May 13, 2017
    This movie is for someone who likes a complex vampire movie. It is very well done. It shows us a completely different view of what it is like to be a child vampire. I felt compassion for these little vampires. Not the typical vampire movie. I was cheering for the child vampires to defeat those who would try to destroy them. Bravo. Well done.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2016
    The producer Ivan Noel with the leading lady actor Ana Maria Giunta with great talent developed a fictional movie that contains vast imagery and locations about the legends of vampires. Usually, Vampire movies are about young adults inter alia. But this movie goes south of the border, and utilizes legends found in that culture, centered on young children who graduate from a boy and girl to teenagers starting puberty by rites of baptism and graduation of that local legends. It is remarkable how Ivan Noel and his production staff recruited hundreds of youngsters as extras. Most noteworthy was how Ivan Noel took such young actors and enabled them to have the posture of an adult but still the appeal of a young boy or girl - such as 10 year old Lauro Veron as a vampire prince (90 years old), Gregorio Munoz as a vampire leader and protector (37 years old, or Valentina as a girl who was a woman-protagonist. A strange religious ex-nurse is caretaker of children in Limbo - a former convent for nuns; she keeps the vampire children safe at night and hidden during the day. The caretaker has to be a hemophiliac, and she recruiting another to take her place. But a band of men in a cult plot to kill them because the band of vampires at Limbo is led by the 90-year-old Grandson of Count Dracula! This is an excellent fiction foreign movie in which the viewer can learn a great deal about life, myth, folklore and legend in another culture provided by their own citizens - a five star rated movie!
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    Reviewed in France on February 10, 2017
    L'article est arrivé en avance sur la date prévue. Aucun reproche à faire. Entièrement satisfait de cet achat. Quant à l'œuvre, elle est remarquable (je suis un admirateur d'Ivan Noel).