Perfect Creature

Last night I watched the movie "Perfect Creature". I had read the synopsis on Netflix and thought it sounded interesting, but really, the synopsis doesn't exactly capture the essence of the movie. I thought of it as a sort of sci-fi alternate history pseudo-religious vampire movie. It is a foreign movie, all in English, that is supposed to take place in the alternate reality equivalent of post World War II New Zealand.

I don't want to spoil anything for anyone, but I do say some things that are not revealed at the very beginning of the movie, so if you want to see it all fresh and new, don't read any more.

The premise is an alternate reality where "vampires", instead of being hunted to extinction and becoming myths and legends, live in peace with human beings and are referred to as Brothers. They came to be as the result of a genetic engineering experiment accident. They are only born to human women, and they are only born male. They do have fangs and live on blood, but they do not kill for it; they also have superhuman strength and senses, and extreme longevity. Since the first was born 300 years ago, none have died, or taken a human life.

The Brothers are looked at as being gifts from God; when a Brother is born he is taken from his mother by the Brotherhood. The Brotherhood is the religion of the people, and the devout go to the Brotherhood to give their Blood. In return, the Brothers are raised to protect and serve humanity. They also give their blood to humans as it has healing powers when ingested and can give visions. Because of their longevity thy are renowned scholars and scientists. It was a Brother that created the influenza vaccine, saving the lives of many people during the plague that was the result of another genetic engineering accident.

Because of the influenza plague and other "bad things", genetic engineering was banned. However, after 70 years of no Brothers being born, the Brotherhood started genetic engineering in secret, hoping to find a way to have more Brothers born to join their ranks and also hoping to find a way to give birth to a female Brother for breeding. As is the way of movies, things go horribly wrong. The experimentation results in a virus that infects the Brother responsible; the same Brother that created the flu vaccine. He goes mad, hating humans and the way he's been forced to "serve" them. He starts slaughtering some and infecting others with his blood, causing them to get sick, then turn violently insane before they die.

Of course, as churches tend to do, the Brotherhood tries to cover it up on their own, but the law gets involved and the authorities try to hunt down the insane Brother with the help of a senior ranking Brother.

All in all, I really enjoyed this movie, and with Halloween coming up, it's appropriate.

Labels: movies

posted by AllieKat 10/12/2007 12:35:00 PM .:. 0 comments

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