At the center is Ailah (Jasmine Curtis-Smith), whose life, already at spur when her sister left her and her nephew Migs (Raikko Mateo), spirals into complete disarray when her sister returns home as a corpse and sits upright during the wake. For reasons undisclosed to the viewer, her sister appears eager to turn Migs into a vampire, making a trite cat-and-mouse game between the town’s authorities and Mara’s turned minions. Smith makes for a good canvas, surely a dear to work with for any director who make use of her childlike features and exteriors. Her exchanges between Castro and Avelino’s characters make for a promising dynamic, but as the film later proves, it’s all about promise, not so much on the follow-through.
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