THE VAMPIRES OF SUBURBIA
Based on a true story.
West London, early 1980s. Schoolboy Nick Adams falls under the spell of the charismatic Jaden, leader of a group of self-styled vampires known as ‘The Underground’.
Fifteen years later Nick is approaching thirty, disillusioned with his cosily perfect existence and increasingly obsessed with recapturing the lost idealism and glory of his youth. On the surface he still appears to be a healthy, well-adjusted consumer citizen - underneath, he is aware that his bloodlust is becoming irresistible.
His life and his sanity rapidly collapsing, he relives the events which led to the brutal killing of his friend’s parents – murders in which his involvement was never suspected.
Desperate to exorcise the memories which torment him, Nick seeks out the other members of The Underground and is dismayed to discover their betrayal of all the beliefs they once so passionately aspired to.
Delving ever deeper into the past, his grasp upon the present becomes increasingly tenuous. Eventually he is driven to a terrible re-enactment of the earlier crime as he finally discovers the sinister truth about the vampires of suburbia.
The world ceased to spin upon its axis. All laws of motion and physics suspended and defied. Time, if it had ever truly existed, ceased to pass.
Nothing could really hurt him in here. It was all in his own mind. But that, he knew, was where the real dangers always lived.
