Thirst Trap
2026 · 21m
Directed by Samuel Aguirre-Kelly
Genres: comedy, dark comedy, horror
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, whimsical
A quirky single haunted tour guide turned newborn vampire navigates the horrors of modern dating apps while controlling her thirst for blood — and connection.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A haunted tour guide vampire swiping through dating apps is exactly the kind of absurdist collision that shouldn't work but somehow does—it's subversive enough to ignore the rom-com machinery it's technically using, and weird enough that you can't quite predict where the thirst metaphor goes.
The film sits awkwardly between horror-comedy traditions without fully committing to either lineage, which undercuts what could have been a more rigorous interrogation of either genre's formal constraints.
The decision to literalize emotional hunger as actual vampiric thirst gives the whole dating app anxiety a physical, comedic edge—that single conceptual choice transforms what could've been a generic premise into something that lands.