Here’s some fun news to start your day with (or your afternoon or evening, should you be reading this hours after it gets published): Noah Segan’s Blood Relatives, the exceptional vampire horror-comedy that blew the doors off Fantastic Fest before heading to Shudder and getting nominated for “Best First Feature” at this year’s FANGORIA Chainsaw Awards, is getting its very own DVD/Blu-ray release next month.
Here’s an official plot synopsis, just in case you bumped your head and forgot the past eight months or so:
Francis, a 115-year-old Yiddish-speaking vampire, still looks 35. He’s been roaming American backroads in his beat-up muscle car for decades, keeping to himself and liking it that way. One day, Jane, a teenager, shows up. She says she’s his daughter, and she’s got the fangs to prove it. They go on the road, deciding whether to sink their teeth into family life.
Starring Segan himself alongside the extremely talented Victoria Moroles, Blood Relatives was one of the best horror movies we saw in 2022, and debatably the horror-comedy of the year (the driver’s license gag alone puts it in the running). Segan, who you’ll surely remember from his work in Glass Onion, Knives Out, and Looper, uses his first feature to breathe a startling amount of life back into the long-in-the-tooth vampire genre, and does it all so effortlessly that you kinda wonder why the rest of ’em can’t be this good.
According to the press release we received, the physical release of Blood Relatives will include a director’s commentary, a making-of documentary, deleted and extended scenes, as well as a behind-the-scenes photo gallery. It’ll be available to purchase in DVD or Blu-ray format on April 25th, just a few weeks from now, and – as you can probably predict from the praise I’ve heaped on this one in the paragraphs above – I highly recommend snagging a copy.
Now. When do we get to talk about Blood Relatives 2: Dad’s Gettin’ Married?
