SUMMER OF BLOOD
Summer of Blood
Onur Tukel, 2014
Catalog No.: FTF-120
Length: 86 minutes
Writer/director Onur Tukel turns in a hilarious performance as the monumentally lazy, socially oblivious and commitment-shy Erik Sparrow, who is dumped by his career-woman girlfriend (Anna Margaret Hollyman, White Reindeer) when he rejects her rather charitable marriage proposal. Feeling lost, he turns to a disastrous string of online dates that successively eat away at his already-deteriorating confidence until a lanky vampire turns him into an undead ladykiller, with a maniacal sex drive matched only by his frenzied need to feed on blood. A collision of absurd, self-deprecating wit and existential curiosity, Summer of Blood is a hilarious horror-comedy with a clever bite all its own.
Cast: Onur Tukel, Anna Margaret Hollyman, Dakota Goldhor, Alex Karpovsky, Dustin Guy Defa, Melodie Sisk, Juliette Fairley, Vanna Pilgrim, Jason Selvig, Keith Poulson, Drew Tobia and Zach Clark
Written, Directed and Edited by Onur Tukel
Produced by Clifford McCurdy, Melodie Sisk, Max Heller and Matt Grady
Cinematography by Jason Banker
Festivals: Tribeca Film Festival, Maryland Film Festival, Fantasia Festival and more
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PRESS
“Pedal-to-the-metal comic wit.”
- Kenji Fujishima, Slate
"This on-the-cheap indie comedy bests any current horror flick in terms of gory gross-out. It also trumps all current comedies in say-anything brio."
-Alan Scherstuhl, The Village Voice
“Simply one of the best horror-comedies in years.”
– Patrick Cooper, Bloody Disgusting
"If Woody Allen directed a vampire comedy, it might resemble Onur Tukel's hilarious urban satire Summer of Blood."
- Eric Kohn, Indiewire
“Screamingly funny.”
– Brandon Harris, Filmmaker Magazine
"Funny and charming."
- Drew Taylor, Indiewire
“(A) self-deprecating comedy with an independent-scene all-star team.”
- Richard Brody, The New Yorker