- A police detective is investigating some mysterious disappearances and uncovers a horrible truth.
- In Los Angeles, Detective Hank Holten is obsessed by his ex-wife, the writer of vampire novels Susan Hastings, stalking her and having drinking problems. His chief and friend, Captain John Billings, makes him promise to forget her and stop drinking, and assigns Hank to find Layla Simmons, who is missing and without notice to her family. Hank goes to a rave party, finds Layla, they go to an orgy party in an old building, and while having sex with her, Hank finds that the place is a vampire nest. He is bitten by the vampire-leader, but nobody believes on him. He looks for Susan to help him.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Policeman Hank Holten (Kevin Dillon) is being interviewed in his hospital room by Dr Blake (Jim Ortlieb) to determine his ability to stand trial for killing his wife Susan Hastings, a writer of vampire fiction. This is the story as Hank tells it to the doctor.
About a year ago, Susan (Vanessa Angel) called quits to their marriage and moved out. Hank had a hard time getting used to the idea that Susan was on her own and dating other men, such as actor Jake Vincent (Alex McArthur), and would frequently follow her around--just to be sure that she was safe, he rationalized. One day, as Hank stood behind a tree and watched Susan jogging past, a robber put a gun to Hank's head and demanded money. Hank responded by beating the bejeesus out of the guy. Afterwards, he concocted a story about the guy resisting arrest, but CaptainJohn Billings (Lance Henriksen) didn't buy it. Billings warned Hank to stop drinking and to stop stalking his wife or he'd be placed on suspension.
Hank agreed to the captain's terms, so Billings assigned him to a case involving the disappearance of Layla Simmons, a college girl who went missing after going to a rave in Hollywood. Hank began hanging around rave bars looking for her. One night, she turned up. When Hank tried to speak with Layla (Jodi Lyn O'Keefe), she invited him to join her, her "brother" Alex (Kenneth Colom), and Alex's girlfriend. They drove to an abandoned hospital where Hank was led into a vampire den. When Layla tried to drink Hank's blood, he pushed her off, fired three shots into her chest, and wounded a bunch of other vampires. Suddenly the Master appeared, proclaimed Hank for himself, and began drinking from Hank's neck. They were interrupted, however, when a shaft of light from the rising sun fell across his face. The next thing Hank knew he was waking up in an empty room with bite marks on his neck. There was no sign that anyone had been there, and the watchman swore up and down that he'd seen no one else on the premises.
When Hank explained to Captain Billings what took place, he was not believed. In fact, Hank was relieved of duty until he got his act together, so Hank decided to take matters into his own hands. This included asking for help from Susan, but Susan replied by filing a harrassment charge against him. Meanwhile, Hank was turning. His eyes were becoming sensitive to light, his eyeteeth had began growing, he was thirsty all the time, and his strength was increasing. He began living in his car, the windows shielded with tinfoil. It wasn't until Susan noticed that he cast no reflection in a mirror that she dropped the complaint and agreed to help him.
First, she made Hank drink wolfsbane tea. Then she pressed a cross against the wound in his neck. This was to slow the turning. Next, she showed him her vampire hunting kit--complete with holy water, garlic, stakes, hammer, and sword--and explained to him the process of vampire slaying. As they were planning out their fourth move -- finding where the vampires sleep and killing the Master (Ismael Kanater) -- Layla and Alex stormed the motel room where they were staying. When the vampires threatened to kill Susan, she asked only to be allowed to interview them. Hank doused Layla with holy water and pinned Alex under a sword. Meanwhile, Jake Vincent, who was P.O.ed that Susan was staying at a motel with her ex, chose this moment to confront her. Unfortunately, Vincent ended up losing his head over it. When Layla noticed that the sun was rising, she and Alex split for the day, leaving Susan and Hank unharmed.
Susan figured that the vampires were nesting somewhere in the abandoned hospital, so she and Hank went to snoop. Susan also figured that the two guys guarding the hospital entrance were wraiths who, in exchange for guarding the vampires' nest, got to feed on their leftovers. She tested out her hypothesis by asking them for car help while flashing a crucifix. The wraiths didn't like it one bit, so now Hank and Susan knew that they would have to out the wraiths before they could get into the hospital. The problem is that wraiths are very strong and their blood is like acid. According to Susan, their only weakness is a fear of heights, so Susan and Hank climbed the fire escape to the hospital roof. They took out one wraith by noosing and hanging him. When the second wraith came up to the roof, Hank pushed him off. On his way down, the wraith fell through a disguised trap door into the sub-basement.
That must be where the vampires sleep, surmised Susan. But it was almost sunset and Hank didn't want to endanger Susan, so he handcuffed her to a railing, gave her a cellphone, and told her to call Captain Billings if he wasn't back by sundown. Then he went looking for the vampires. After searching a few empty rooms, Hank found the coffins and staked all the vampires. Just as the sun went down, he came upon two more coffins, one belonging to Alex and the other to Layla, who were just waking up. After complimenting Alex on his shirt, Hank destroyed him with a crossbow. Layla leapt at Hank, and Hank shoved a stake through her heart. But where was the Master?
"Right behind you," said Layla, with her dying unbreath. Hank turned to see both the Master and Susan standing there. Susan's neck revealed that she had been bitten. Now Hank faced a dilemma. If he killed the Master, all the Master's childer (except for Hank) would die. Giving up his life for Susan, Hank tossed her the crossbow with orders to kill the Master, but the Master ordered Susan to kill Hank instead. As Susan prepared to fire on Hank, Hank leapt at the crossbow, forcing Susan to turn it back on the Master, the result being that both he and Susan pulled the trigger together, "curing" them both. As the Master exploded, the hospital also began to explode, and Hank and Susan ran for the door...until Susan turned around and went back in.
Two days later, when Hank tried to explain what happened, Captain Billings denied seeing Susan, dropping her complaint, or releasing Hank into her custody. In fact, he had no memory of seeing Hank since he assigned him the case of Layla Simmons. Susan's body was not found in the rubble, but the desk clerk at the motel did remember checking them in and later finding two bodies in their room. Billings figured that Hank went berserk, killed Vincent, then killed Susan. Hank maintained that it was the vampires and that Susan, probably wanting to become a vampire all along, went back to save the Master and get him to bite her again. Figuring that Hank intended to plead insanity, Billings placed him under psychiatric care.
After listening to Hank's story, Dr Blake concludes that was Hank's inability to accept Susan ending their relationship and starting up a new one with Jake Vincent, compounded with Hank's alcohol abuse and lack of sleep, that caused him to suffer a breakdown, which manifested itself in these destructive and antisocial behaviors.
Epiloque: Hank is awakened by Susan laying next to him on his cell cot. As Hank suspected, Susan has become a vampire. She extols the virtues of being a vampire and tells him that the Master's powers are fantastic (he caused Billings' memory loss) and that she's come back to kill Hank because she knows he will never stop looking for her once he's released. As Susan prepares to put the bite on Hank, he stakes her with a chair leg. Blake and Billings are both watching through closed circuit TV but, of course, a vampire cannot be photographed, so all they can do is assume that Hank is acting out his fantasies. Billings goes in to talk with Hank and to ask him once again where he's hidden Susan's body. Hank points to the floor, but Susan has vanished. Billings notices an earring on the floor and bends down to look under the bed. Billings is about to find Susan. [Original synopsis by bj_kuehl]
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