Blood & Donuts

"There is a place between the living and the dead... and it's open 24 hours"

Sep 9 1995 R 1h 29m
Comedy, Horror

In 1994, in Toronto, the vampire Boya awakens from his twenty-five years of sleep in a basement hit by a golf ball. He takes a cab to the local cemetery, retrieves his belongings from a grave and lodges in a low budget hotel nearby an all-night donut shop. Boya does not drink human blood anymore but rats and pigeons blood instead. While in the donut shop, Boya befriends and protects the taxi driver Earl, who is having trouble with two criminals, and falls in love for the waitress Molly. Meanwhile, his former passion of 1969, Rita, who misses her lost youth, is trying to locate him.

Plot

In 1994, in Toronto, the vampire Boya awakens from his twenty-five years of sleep in a basement hit by a golf ball. He takes a cab to the local cemetery, retrieves his belongings from a grave and lodges in a low budget hotel nearby an all-night donut shop. Boya does not drink human blood anymore but rats and pigeons blood instead. While in the donut shop, Boya befriends and protects the taxi driver Earl, who is having trouble with two criminals, and falls in love for the waitress Molly. Meanwhile, his former passion of 1969, Rita, who misses her lost youth, is trying to locate him.

Written by

Andrew Rai Berzins

Directed by

Holly Dale

Cast

Gordon Currie, Louis Ferreira, Helene Clarkson

Crew

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Production Countries

Canada

Production Companies

Ontario Film Development Corporation, Téléfilm Canada, Feature Film Project

Languages

English

Awards

3 nominations

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Average Rating
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