’s solo feature directorial debut is a sort of female African-American spin on “The Lost Boys,” chronicling what its heroine pegs as “The summer I got breasts and fought vampires.” It works well enough as a teen supernatural melodrama, reasonably slick if a tad silly — less well as straight-up horror, let alone as a commentary on race-centric historical and political issues that never feel more than pasted-on here.
She’s enlightened on that front all too soon, however. Walking home alone at night from a party attended with gay BFF Pedro , she spies another indigent man similarly attacked, and in trying to intervene gets attacked herself. Saved by a passing car, she arrives home with telltale neck puncture wounds.
That’s quite enough intrigue for one movie. Sherman Payne’s screenplay explains it all as culminating long-running rebellions against slavery and other forms of racist oppression, as most recently manifested in New Orleans’ greatly reduced African-American population post-Katrina.
They seriously should have left it to Anne Rice... i turned this shit off at point 55:10.
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