Well here's a plot you don't see everyday. A race car company has developed a car that runs on human blood. A doctor suspecting something is not right tries to get to the bottom of this unusual situation. This leads him into a conspiracy where the automobile company that has developed the car now wants to market and sell it around the world.
The director Juraj Herz really plays up the horror elements of the story but he also seems to be making some sort of statement about the need for human kind to commit suicide by getting into a moving four wheel machine and driving faster and faster until it finally kills him or someone else.
Unlike the previous Herz film I viewed Beauty and the Beast, which had a lot of atmospheric gloom and doom, much of Ferat Vampire takes place in the daylight and is set in contemporary Czechoslovakia to emphasize the modern horror of the situation.
Does Ferat Vampire succeed as a horror film or a commentary on people's fascination with killing themselves in fast cars? I have no idea. However one thing you can be sure of is that this is certainly a journey into weirdo film world. I know there have been other possessed automobile films like The Car and Christine, but Ferat Vampire definitely has a tire up in the evil jalopy story sweepstakes.
The film was written by Jan Fleischer and Juraj Herz, the running time is 90 minutes.
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