![]() Discovered wandering by the side of the highway by the local sheriff (David James Elliot) in the wake of a traffic accident, Rufus gets quite a welcome to his new adopted home. But, like Romero's hero, he's unsure about his place in the world and similarly finds himself stranded in a small town, agonizing over whether or not to slake his bloodlust. ![]() Saper) isn't comparably confused about his identity: He knows for a fact that he's been walking the Earth for more than 100 years in the slender frame of a teenaged boy. Romero's 1976 classic Martin, a seriocomic fable about a troubled young man who believes that he's a vampire. The other obvious touchstone is George A. Canadian writer-director Dave Schultz's Saskatchewan-set spin on vampire mythos feeds on any number of previous horror flicks for inspiration, most notably the hit Swedish import Let the Right One In, which it imitates both in its snowy colour palette and anguished, melancholic atmosphere. The eponymous protagonist of Rufus is a bloodsucker, and so is the movie.
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