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Arthouse afi­ciona­dos with an inter­est in genre fare will find both their inter­ests piqued when Water Bearer Films releases Eulogy For A Vampire on DVD.  This blend of hor­ror homage and gay-themed inde­pen­dent film­mak­ing was directed by Patrick McGuinn and will be released on March 8th.  The disc will also fea­ture sev­eral spe­cial fea­tures.  Read on for all the sex-crazed undead details…

ATMOSPHERIC EROTIC VAMPIRE FILM “EULOGY FOR A VAMPIRE”

WALKS THE SHADOWED HALLS ON WATER BEARER FILMS DVD

A remote, rural monastery houses the young repressed monks of the Order of Pathicus, and their dark secrets. Tainted by the severe mur­der of a young acolyte after a rebuked advance, the monks fur­ther retreat from a soci­ety they crave to join. After a quar­ter cen­tury of silence the house’s vio­lent past yearns for awak­en­ing. Animals are found evis­cer­ated, odd sounds breathe in the night air, and an evil pres­ence is felt throughout.

When an uncon­scious young drifter is dis­cov­ered near the monastery, his sex­ual pres­ence unset­tles the young novices, as well as the res­i­dent priests. The man’s dark charisma ensnares the atten­tions of the young novices as they are unrav­eled by their tense obses­sions, except for the monk Rafael, who resist’s the stranger’s temp­ta­tions and seeks escape from the doomed cage of the crum­bling monastery.

Director Patrick McGuinn (Sun Kissed) and screen­writer André Salas (Latin Boys Go To Hell) cre­ate an erotic homage to Dark Shadows, Hammer films, and 1970s Italian gial­los, per­co­lat­ing with a dis­tinc­tive sex­ual pulse, a men­ac­ing tone, a tinge of sly camp, and pow­er­ful super­nat­ural evo­ca­tions. Eulogy for a Vampire was filmed in an atmos­pheric 19th–cen­tury manse in his­toric Philmont, New York, owned by Eleanor Ambos, the cel­e­brated New York City antique dealer.

“Operatic B-horror! Scarred flesh, ripped blood­lines, and vam­pire rit­u­als!” – Village Voice

“Provocative and atmos­pheric. A suit­ably moody sen­sa­tion.”– Chelsea Now

Special Features:

• Theatrical Trailer

• Evidence Remains — a music video

• Behind the scenes footage

• Deleted Scenes montage

• Actors screen tests

Press kit, high-res pub­lic­ity images and trailer at www.eulogyforavampire.com

Release date: March 8, 2011