Blood & Donuts

Blood & Donuts

There is a place between the living and the dead... and it's open 24 hours

Directed by Holly Dale

Produced by The Feature Film Project, Téléfilm Canada

199590 min5.4 / 10

A quirky, affectionate vampire comedy that treats its supernatural premise with gentle humor and genuine warmth, anchored by an unlikely found-family dynamic in a 24-hour donut shop.

In 1994, in Toronto, the vampire Boya awakens from his twenty-five years of sleep in a basement hit by a golf ball. He takes a cab to the local cemetery, retrieves his belongings from a grave and lodges in a low budget hotel nearby an all-night donut shop. Boya does not drink human blood anymore but rats and pigeons blood instead. While in the donut shop, Boya befriends and protects the taxi driver Earl, who is having trouble with two criminals, and falls in love for the waitress Molly. Meanwhile, his former passion of 1969, Rita, who misses her lost youth, is trying to locate him.

Questions people ask

  • Is Blood & Donuts easy watching? Somewhat. More comforting than 67% of films.

  • Is Blood & Donuts scary? Not especially. Less frightening than 58% of films.

  • Does Blood & Donuts end with hope? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

  • Is Blood & Donuts violent? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

  • Is Blood & Donuts sad? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

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