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Synopsis

As Detectives Guy [Rodney 'Kamal' Jackson] and Nash [Cliff Lee] are on the scene of the third homicide in ninemonths in which the victim is mutilated and drained of blood, they are joinedby Avia Richards [Allison Valentino], who flashes classified military credentials and says thatshe's been assigned to join the investigation. Against their better judgement,they take Avia with them when they shake down their #1 suspect, BennetSalvatore [Oscar Segal]. Without a warrant, they enter the unlocked house, draw their guns, and cornersword-carrying Bennet in the attic. Suddenly, they are attacked by a vampire.Fortunately, Avia is there with her sword. She slugs Bennet and impales thevampire. OK, so now Guy and Nash are impressed, but Avia is disappointed. "It'snot him," she moans.

Later, Detective Guy drops Avia at her home, where she finally explainsherself [think: Quint's Indianapolis speech from "Jaws"]. "A few years ago, wetook one of those family vacations in the Poconos..." she begins. To make along story short, her family was attacked by a vampire. She alone was spared,thanks to her mother's intervention. But her 2-year old baby Jenine was killed,and the rest of her family--mother, father, and brother--were gone. They're outthere somewhere, she believes, "living" as vampires.

The next night, Avia and Detective Guy have dinner together. He confessesthat he pulled Avia's record and found that she's not listed as military,although her badge is active. Avia admits that her credentials and support comefrom families of vampires' victims as well as from persons high up in Congressand the military, although she is not "military" herself. That's enough forDetective Raymond Guy. He jumps into bed with Avia.Ray basically moves in with Avia, and the next half hour of the movieis just scene after scene spanning weeks of Avia searching for vampires in thepark, sword twirling, polishing her sword with a pine-based solution(pine will set off an allergic reaction in a vampire, she explains), sleeping,having bad dreams about vampires, popping pills whenever she gets upset,sparring with Ray, having dinner with Ray, educating Ray about vampires, andidentifying vampire "hot spots" on her map. One of the hot spots is in the parkwhere she runs across two zombies feasting on a body. Another is in aplain-looking bungalow in a quiet suburb, where she finds a bone-faced vampirefeasting on a young boy. A couple of jabs with her sword, and Avia successfullytakes them out. But the Master Vampire is still out there.

Suddenly, the bottom drops out of Ray's world. His partner, DetectiveNash, has done a search on Avia Richards and found that she is wanted formurder and that she did a stint two years ago in a mental hospital, diagnosedas schizophrenic. In her schizoid state, she believes people are being killedby vampires and that it is her duty to kill the vampires. In her mind, heexplains, Avia thinks she is killing blood-sucking vampires, but she's reallykilling innocent people. He even gives Ray a tape showing Avia in astraitjacket and padded cell. Ray tries to get in touch with her, but she's outat another hot spot where she kills a pot-bellied vampire and two girls dressedin white shrouds. Vampire concubines, she later explains to Ray when he doescatch up with her.

Ray is in a quandry. What to do? He's embarrassed that he actuallybelieved Avia's stories about vampires and her need to stop them. As a policedetective, he's bound to apprehend the criminal. But he's also in love withher. What to do? What to do? I can't let you kill again, Ray says when Aviaprepares to go out hunting. This time, she says, she knows exactly where theMaster Vampire is, and nothing is going to stop her. She coldcocks Ray andheads over to what looks like some luxury hotel or apartment building where sheenters a room draped in black curtains. Inside, there are vampires asleep onthe floor and vampire concubines feeding on the Master Vampire. All thevampires start advancing on Avia, but she takes them out with a few swings ofher sword, leaving only the Master Vampire. He snarls, she kicks, he tries tochoke her, she runs her sword through him.

So what's the story? Is Avia a psychotic killer or a hunter of vampires?The epilogue shows Ray and Avia sitting on a park bench and then Ray and Aviawalking under some cherry trees, Avia carrying a bouquet of flowers and a teddybear. Has she been returned to the mental hospital? The final scene is avoice-over in which Avia says, "Perhaps I'm crazy. Perhaps I'm killing innocentpeople. Perhaps I've lost my mind. But the fact is I AM Avia, Vampire Hunter,and I will not stop. I will continue until all vampires are dead." [Original synopsisby bj_kuehl]