‘When Evil Lurks’ Director Developing Vampire Comedy ‘FELIX: A Complex Puzzle’

Writer/Director Demián Rugna is keeping busy. The filmmaker is not only developing a sequel to When Evil Lurks but a new vampire horror-comedy, FELIX: A Complex Puzzle, too, per a new press release.

Not only does Felix sound like a break from tone from Rugna, but it also sounds like a break from standard vampire fare: the vampire will be hunting down his own body parts this time.

The film follows “Omin, a hard-partying vampire playboy and leader of the notorious ‘Blood-Suckers’ clan. After falling into a river during a wild yacht bender, Omin is presumed dead and sent to the morgue, where doctors mistakenly harvest all his organs, including a lung. Waking up the next morning, disoriented and dismembered, Omin rallies vampire bounty hunters from across the globe—from Romania to Indigenous American clans—to track down his missing body parts. Meanwhile, in the Big City, we meet Felix, a hypochondriac night tour guide unknowingly about to become part of the bloody puzzle.”

“Felix is a super fun, spooky comedy in the vampire world that plays a lot with horror and dark comedy. It features endearing characters and draws a lot of influence from films like Fright Night and Lost Boys. It explores my very peculiar comedy style without losing my genre director signature, as in every project,“ Rugna said in a statement.

The vampire comedy is being produced by Guido Rud, CEO of FilmSharks, who said, “The script is complete. It’s a vampire comedy, and the script is masterful. It’s got fresh takes on themes like masculinity and excess. And elements of a road trip movie. It’ll be a masterpiece.”

Rugna is quickly emerging as a vital new voice in horror with films like When Evil Lurks and Terrified, and it’ll be interesting to see the filmmaker take on the horror-comedy next.

Stay tuned.

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