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Edmond [Kirk Wilson] is an aspiring artist. Several months ago, he attended an artshowing and was particularly attracted to a canvas painted in red shadows.He thought he saw death in the canvas, but the artist Diana [Dawn Spinella] (who happenedto be standing nearby) explained that the real meaning was rebirth. Aftera few minutes of conversation, Edmond and Diana were obviously attractedto each other, and Diana invited Edmond to become her apprentice. Edmondjumped at the chance. They went to Diana's studio where they had sex, andDiana revealed that she was a vampire. She proved it by stabbing herselfin the stomach. She then asked Edmond to allow her to turn him so that hecould be with her forever. Edmond refused.

Now it is some four months later. Edmond has become Diana's renfield.It is his duty to pick up pretty homeless prostitutes and deliver them toDiana so that she can use them as models. Unfortunately for the model,Diana first drinks her fill of their blood, then collects any remainingblood to use in her color pallette. When she has finished, Edmond cleansup the mess and buries the body.

Diana has an art opening in four days and needs two more models tocomplete her display. After securing one model, Edmond goes out for adrink with his friend Connor [Leo Otero]. They happen upon a young hooker named Dee [Erin Smith]who offers them sex for $20. Edmond isn't interested, but Connor takes Deeup on it. Unlike Edmond, Connor fantasizes about being a vampire. When hebites Dee's neck during sex, she screams and runs away.

A few nights later, while searching for another suitable model forDiana's final painting, Edmond comes across Dee in an alley. She isdesperate and begs Edmond for help. Edmond takes her back to his place,gives her a hot shower and some clean clothes, and offers her sanctuary sothat she can rest. Suddenly, Diana breezes in the front door. She likeswhat she sees in Dee and offers her a chance to pose. Dee is totallywilling, but Edmond (knowing what Diana REALLY has in mind) refuses totake her to Diana's house. To keep Dee from going on her own, Edmond tiesher to his bed and decides to kill Diana.

While Edmond's father Marvin [Larry Palatta] makes Italian meatballs and entertainsDee with his songs and his Jimmy Durante impressions, Edmond goes over toConnor's house to ask for help killing Diana. Connor points out that,since Diana survived stabbing herself in the abdomen, it's possible that astake in the chest won't hurt her either, something that Edmond hadn'tthought about. They arrive at Diana's studio and try the normal vampirekilling articles--crucifixes and stakes--but Diana merely laughs at them,bats them around a bit, informs them that only a vampire can kill avampire, and then knocks Edmond out.

Edmond wakes up to find Diana gone and Connor watching him. Edmondcan see right away from the wound on Connor's neck that Connor has beenbitten by Diana. Connor explains how, after Diana knocked Edmond out, shevowed to kill Dee, bit Connor, and informed him that he won't totally turninto a vampire until after he makes his first kill. Connor has decidedthat his first kill will be Edmond. After going at each other for a fewrounds, during which Edmond breaks one of Connor's fangs and Connor breaksEdmond's hand, the boys hug and make up. But when Connor takes anotherlunge at Edmond's neck, Edmond is forced to plunge the stake into Connor'schest.

Edmond lumbers home to find Dee missing and his father with a bitewound on the neck. A note on the bed says that Diana has taken Dee andintends to bury her in the graveyard with the others. Realizing that hisfather is now a half vampire, Edmond coerces Marvin to go downtown withhim. The plan is for Marvin to kill a homeless guy, turn into a fullvampire, and then kill Diana. Edmond lures a homeless guy into the alley.When the homeless guy finds what Edmond and Marvin have in store for him,he has a heart attack on the spot. Marvin needs only to finish him off anddrink a bit of his blood.

Now that Marvin has turned into a full vampire, Edmond drives them tothe graveyard where he confronts Diana, who has tied Dee to a tree. Notabout to let Marvin kill her, Diana grabs Dee and leads Edmond and Marvinon a wild goose chase. Just when Diana has cornered Dee and Edmond and isabout to kill them, Marvin sneaks up behind and stabs Diana with apaintbrush. Diana goes up in flames. As the flames die out, Dee assuresMarvin that vampires are really IN nowadays, while Edmond paints theirpicture using Diana's ashes and the paintbrush that killed her.Original Synopsis by bj_kuehl.