The Vampires

In the dead of night, in 1930 Hollywood, a migrant film crew work on the Spanish version of what will become one of the biggest blockbusters of its year—a certain vampire film, starring a beloved Hungarian screen idol. As dubbing technology had not yet come into being, an occasional practice had been devised of simultaneously shooting an alternate language version of major productions on the same sets from dusk until dawn, the actors being forced to emulate the work of what was being done by the stars of the English day shoots. Celebrated Spanish actor Luis de Ossario (Henry Ian Cusick, LOST, MACGYVER) has been cast to play the Count. He comes with decades of instinct and experience from stage and screen, but is unable to draw upon his talents, forced instead to mimic every aspect of what the English version’s star, Kürt Orlov (Thomas Kretschmann, THE PIANIST, SPECTRE) is doing with the role. The two actors regularly meet at the transitory hours of their shoots, and a rivalry begins to stir between them. All the while, a string of murders are occurring on and around the soundstage…