Bloodlust (1992 film)

Bloodlust is a 1992 Australian vampire film directed by Jon Hewitt and Richard Wolstencroft and starring Big Bad Ralph and Kelly Chapman.

Bloodlust
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Directed byJon Hewitt
Richard Wolstencroft
Produced byJon Hewitt
Written byJon Hewitt
Richard Wolstencroft
StarringBig Bad Ralph
Kelly Chapman
Music byRoss Hazeldine
CinematographyGary Ravenscroft
Edited byJon Hewitt
Release date
  • 1992 (1992)
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish

Premise

In the streets of Melbourne, three vampires wander around killing, having sex and taking drugs. They carry out a heist, which involves stealing $3 million which attracts the attention of many psychotics, who chase them through a blood spattered odyssey into the Melbourne underground.

Production

Co-director Jon Hewitt described it as:

A purpose-made, market-driven, crass, exploitation film. It isn't particularly good but, for me, it was really my film school. It's where I taught myself how to make a feature film and made a lot of mistakes on it - but I tried to learn from them. It was a film made in the context of not really being able to get any support for anything I was trying to do, then just going out and making something that I thought would have a back-end market, would be a safe bet, a sort of straight-to-video schlock film.[1]

Filming took six weeks and was very difficult, with one member of the cast being arrested on drug charges. However Hewitt says it proved profitable.[1]

References
  1. "Interview with Jon Hewitt", Signet, 27 August 1998 Archived 12 January 2013 at Archive.today accessed 18 November 2012


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