Overview: When an injured bat transforms into a handsome vampire, struggling horror novelist Olivia Romo hides him in her garage to protect him from a vampire hunter.

Besotted by the creature, she feeds him animal blood, but any chance of romance is soon thwarted when a gang of fellow bloodsuckers invade her home in search of their missing friend.

DVD Verdict: So after our heroine has gathered up the bat, put it into a box in the garage, and gone to bed, she awakes in the morning, goes to check on the poorly wee thing ... and finds instead that it has turned into a bloody Vampire!

Injured, and weak, he is at her mercy, she nurses him back to health using pig’s blood and once recovered enough to converse with her, in return, he allows himself to be interviewed to get the facts straight for her new novel!

A little convenient, I’ll grant you, but amazing it works from the off in drawing you in and allowing you to eagerly follow the one-trick storyline enough that you forget to question when certain things happen (or don’t, as the case may be!)

However, some of his friends come calling, and things begin to get quicky get very, very messy (hence the name of the movie, I guess!)

OK, sure, we all know going in that Red Snow is a low budget, so-called B-Movie, but man, the production values are high, it is superbly shot (on location in Lake Tahoe), excellently edited, and newcomer Dennice Cisneros (as Olivia Romo) more than handled her role with style.

As you can well anticipate, the continual believability from the interaction between our two main characters, Olivia and Luke (Nico Bellamy), has to always remain constant, compelling even, given the nature of this film. And for me, it really did.

Furthermore, anyone going in thinking this is an out-and-out horror movie will either be sadly disappointed or greatly pleased as, to my mind, it is actually much more a black (red) comedy that knows not to take itself too seriously!

The dialogue, for the most part, is witty and intelligent and those aforementioned moments of humor are well placed and comedic lines delivered with impeccable timing by most all.

In closing, I think you should also be aware that as you watch Red Snow that all of the vampire and gore effects in the film were achieved practically without the use of CGI and real taxidermy bats were used in the film as they appeared more realistic onscreen than synthetic props! This is a Widescreen Presentation (2.39:1) enhanced for 16x9 TVs.

Official Trailer