This week, we watched a movie starring Lionel Atwilll. He's someone I always like to see on the screen. At first, this movie seemed familiar, but nope! There's just a lot of old vampire movies.
Dead bodies are popping up all over the village drained of blood. The locals are attributing it to a vampire, but a young man is looking to a more human explanation. Herman acts pretty weird, and he carries around a bat in his pocket, so he becomes an easy target for the torch and stick brigade. The problem is, once he's dead and another body shows up, the timeline doesn't line up!
What's really happening is Dr. Atwill is using the blood to keep alive a small sponge. He says it's advancing science, but I'm skeptical. I couldn't figure out what was so exciting about the breathing sponge, but Lionel was excited about it. He had a minion that I'm calling Emu, because I couldn't understand what his name was. Emu didn't speak for most of the movie, but then he was just a normal guy. But then he was creepily skulking across a roof and whispering under his cape at the detective/solver of the crime.
So then the weird ending happens. I'm wondering if there's a normal ending in any of these movies. And by normal, I mean one where I'm not wondering what just happened and why it happened. In this one, Emu straight up murders Lionel after switching places with the solver and then kills himself. What?! Why? And how was Lionel communicating with Emu across the expanse?
The movie was on the strange side. With the breathing sponge, the ESP, and poor Herman and his bat corpse, it was entertaining enough. But these endings are killing me with their nonsense! RIP Emu. I'm not sure why you're dead...
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