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Vampires aka Bloodless

This is a low budget film shot in the north of England during 2010. It took a while to be released as the budget was found to finish the CGI effects and to get a distributor on board. The finished film however will not disappoint fans of British horror.

My involvement began when producers Steve O’Brien and Richard Johnstone asked if I’d take a look at the script in December 2009. I read it and made notes over the festive period and really enjoyed it. The film was green lit early into the New Year and we began filming in late Feb, early March.

I put a small team together to help me get through the workload that includes Jez Hunt, Dawn Hardy and Will Steele.  We had a whole load of work to do, several vampire makeups, their victims, some dummies, flame effects and a few prop builds. We had one week pre-production time then it was a case of evenings and long hours during the shoot to get the work done.

As ever with these things it was a learning curve, but I am proud of what we achieved in such a short amount of time on such a small budget.

Look out for Vampires, it’ll make a great spooky gift!

Holly….she stole the show!

One of the many wounds applied on set, straight out of the kit. forthis I used sculpt gel coloured with liquidex acrylic, stippled with pros aide and made up with creams, all in approx half an hour. Not to bad!

I’ll add some behind the scenes pics in the Blog in the near future.