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(aka DEMON UNDER GLASS)

(2002)
Directed by Jon Cunningham (co-wrote, produced, directed)
Starring Jason Carter, Garett Maggart, Jack Donner, Denise Alessandria Hurd, Ray Proscia, Harrison Young, Jean St. James, James Kiberd

Here’s a film that took a very old and worn out sub-genre and gave it an interesting twist to it. The police capture a person they believe to be behind a series of murders, where the victims are drained of blood. Of course, the minute they capture the person, the government takes control and takes their prisoner. They are not interested in making him pay for his crimes, but to find out if he is in fact what they think he is, then to use him as a lab rat and study him as such. The problem is that the more they learn about their test subject, the group starts to think differently on what should be done with him.

Jason Carter plays the mysterious title character and does it quite well. He was Francis Ford Coppola’s choice to play Dracula in his 1992 film. But it seems Carter has played this type of character or at least in vampire films a few times. But he gives the character a little more than just playing a gothic wanna-be vampire. Garett Maggart plays the young doctor who is brought on board to help tend to the vampires wounds and physical well-being. At first he thinks his patient is being mistreated, but once he realizes the man they have locked up could be responsible for many murders, he starts to re-think his Hippocratic Oath.

Jack Donner plays the scientist leading the study, after his colleague is killed during the capture of the creature. Donner has been around forever and has worked in so many different genre pictures that he is always recognizable, but you probably won’t remember from where. Donner has a very distinct face and even more so of a voice. He plays this scientist with the typical style that it’s more about the facts that can be learned, even at the cost of a few lives.

Not sure why this is being re-released under this title, since it was already released on DVD back in 2002 under the title DEMON UNDER GLASS. I can only imagine it’s to tie in with all recent vampire interests from TRUE BLOOD and TWILIGHT. None the less, it is a film that is quite different than your usual vampire film and is worth watching.