- Set in a gritty, real life New York City, alcoholic Sam meets up with a modern day succubus who marks him and controls his will. As his world unravels he slowly figures out what is happening and has to figure out what to do.
- It's autumn in New York. Sam has broken up with his girlfriend and his father has recently died. World-weary and sloppy drunk, he finds temporary solace in the arms of Anna, a mysterious vampire who draws him away from his friends and into a web of addiction and madness.—<dream-king@technologist.com>
- It's Halloween in New York, but it's not quite Sam's [Larry Fessenden] day. His father has recently died, he's just broken up with his girlfriend Liza [Heather Woodbury], and he gets robbed on the subway. Already drunk, he goes to a Halloween party at the apartment of friends Nick [Aaron Beall] and Rae [Patricia Coleman] and there meets Anna [Meredith Snaider]. Anna walks home with him, but, when Sam has to dash back to Nick and Rae's apartment because he took the wrong coat, Anna disappears.
Several nights and a lot of beers later, Sam runs into Anna at a festival. They go for a ride on the ferris wheel, and Anna jerks him off in Battery Park and bites his lip in the heat of passion. Sam wakes up the next morning, lying alone in the grass and Anna is gone. That night, Sam has to stand in for Lenny, who works as a waiter at the restaurant that Sam manages. Lenny has been seeing some chick on a boat and has suddenly disappeared. Everyone figures he's just run off. After the restaurant closes, Sam goes outside to find Anna waiting for him. They go out to dinner (Anna isn't hungry, but Sam wolfs down a big red hamburger), and then they go back to Sam's apartment, Anna making a point of being invited in.
Sam and Anna are becoming an item. One night, while Sam is chopping garlic for dinner, Anna drops by. She can't stand the smell in the house so they go up on the roof to have sex. When Sam wakes up, Anna is gone. Sam meets Liza for coffee. He tells Liza about Anna, and Liza is visably shaken. In the middle of their conversation, Sam feels sick and goes to the bathroom. He doesn't return until Liza is gone.
It is the funeral for Sam's father, and Sam is giving the eulogy. Afterwards, the mourners adjourn for a few drinks, and Anna suddenly shows up. Sam and Anna go walking in Central Park, and they are chased by wolves. Anna raises her hand to the wolves, and they cease the chase. When Sam and Anna come out of the park, they come upon an accident in which a small boy is injured. Anna picks him up and carries him to the emergency room. Afterwards, Sam and Anna find a storage closet, where Anna bites his arm while they're having sex.
Sam is feeling "drained" and looking forward to spending Thanksgiving with Nick and Rae at Rae's grandmother's house on the beach. But rest is not to be his. Sam's first night there, Anna comes to him in his sleep. The next day is Thanksgiving, and Anna joins them for dinner but doesn't eat anything. ("Cramps," she says.) Sam eats his dinner but barfs it up. After dinner, while Sam and Nick drink shots, Rae and Anna go for a walk. Anna comes on to Rae and is just about to bite her neck, when Rae backs off. The next day, the three of them (Nick, Rae, and Sam) return to the city.
Sam is losing it fast. He tries to speak to Liza, but she blames it on his drinking. Anna accuses him of pining for Liza, and they break up. Sam attempts to talk with Nick about Anna, describing how she is like a parasite. Every time they make love, she bites him and sucks up the blood. He's never seen her eat or drink; neither has he ever seen her in the daytime.
Nick laughs, and tells Sam he has a real propensity for Gothic melodrama. "Vampirism is everywhere," Nick lectures. "It is hiding in our hearts. It is at the bottom of a bottle or a needle in the arm. It is 500 channels of insipid cultural drivel, the advertizing and gluttony draining us of our ability to think. But believe me, it is not to be found embodied in Anna. She probably belongs to one of those bloodsucking cults, but she is not a vampire!" Nick goes on to tell Sam to lay off the booze, pull himself together, and get an AIDS test. Then he invites Sam out for drink, but Sam refuses.
When Sam finds his cat slain, he runs to Liza's apartment. When Liza doesn't answer her door, Sam lets himself in and finds Liza in the same condition as his cat. Realizing that he is in big trouble, Sam tries to help himself. He buys a bag of garlic and smears it on his windows. He buys a package of beefsteaks and drinks the blood. He calls Nick for help and, when Nick comes to the door, Sam opens it...only to find Anna standing there, teeth bared.
Sam locks himself in the bathroom and pulls out the rod from a towel rack. While Anna pretends to take a phone call from Liza, Sam cautiously opens the bathroom door to find Anna again standing there with her teeth bared. She knocks him down and bites him in the neck. Then she screws him while drinking his blood. Sam reaches for the towel rod, hits her with it, then locks himself in the bedroom and passes out on the bed.
While Nick and Rae make their way to Sam's door, Anna comes in through the bedroom window (on the fifth floor!) and leaps on top of Sam. She offers him a taste of her blood, but Sam refuses and tries to escape through the window. Anna tries to pull him back in. Just as Nick breaks in the bedroom door, Sam and Anna plunge to the ground below. Nick and Rae run outside to where Sam and Anna lay dead on the cement. Moments later, Anna's body disappears. A short while later, a boat leaves the harbor. [Original Synopsis by bj_kuehl.]
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