The Red City
2025 · 10m · USA
Directed by Thomas Simon
Genres: drama, horror, thriller
A germaphobic vampire hiding in plain sight as a phlebotomist falls for a human woman, dragging them both into a violent underworld where love and survival collide.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Germaphobic vampire phlebotomist tries on a love story — points for the specific hook, but ten minutes isn't enough room for it to be anything but a logline. Cute and slight.
A germaphobic-phlebotomist vampire is a genuinely fresh angle on a thoroughly worked-over premise, and the noir-romantic register has real promise. Worth a look.
Germaphobe vampire phlebotomist is a genuinely fresh angle - the noir romance plus medical-work paranoia could be tonally rich. Klipist confirms 10 min and atmospheric/dark/visual tags, which is the right register for the premise.