High Stakes
Gary Howell
Synopsis
High Stakes is Zulu meets Dusk Till Dawn: a fast paced, plot twisting, thrilling and grittily realistic vampire film.
A teenaged girl called Lydia finds a blood covered young boy on the street, and takes him home for help, where the boy viciously kills Lydia's father. Traumatised she arrives at the nearby church, where she is taken inside by the vicar, Reverend Clegg.
In an illicit gambling den, Guy, a low rent gambler gets the opportunity of his life to play a high rolling card player from London. As the game goes Guy's way, the card player and his entourage show their true colours - they are a nomadic pack of vampires, preying on society's low lifes. Guy manages to escape with his winnings, and seeks sanctuary in the same church, where he reasons the vampires will not be able to follow.
Reverend Clegg is attacked and killed by the vampire clan on the threshold of the church. The people inside the church are now under siege. The stakes are raised - if Guy is not given up, the church will be burnt to the ground by the vampire clan. Their problems multiply as the Reverend is reborn as a vampire, bezerk on the blood lust. Sanctuary isn't as safe as it used to be.
Details
- Year
- 2008
- Type of film
- Features
- Running Time
- 82 mins
- Format
- HiDef
- Director
- Peter Ferris, Dewi Griffiths
- Producer
- Danny Chang
- Executive Producer
- Danny Chang
- Editor
- Taimur Khan
- Screenwriter
- Michael Doyle
- Director of Photography
- Viv Mainwaring
- Production Designer
- Nick Burnell
- Sound
- Roger Van Koningsveldt, Dick Philip, Doug Sinclair, Paul McFadden
- Music
- Danny Chang
- Principal Cast
- Jeff Higgins, Charlie Bird, Jason Excell, Andreas Coshia, Lewis Davies, Caroline Lees
Production status
Complete
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Last updated 22nd November 2007
