- Joel Winter is just your average Midwest kid until he meets a vampire in the forest. Over the years, Joel and the vampire Rachel become friends and he helps her feel by violently stabbing her and doing other nasty things. Rachel eventually leaves Joel and he must continue getting the fix of violence that he's used to. He also runs into his share of vampires along the way.—Josh Pasnak <chainsaw@intouch.bc.ca>
- Joel Winter is a "special one". That's what the vampiress Rachel [Laura McLaughlin] tells him in 1970 when she first sees the curious little 5-year old in the forest watching her feed. As Joel [Mick McCleery] matures, Rachel visits him again and again, asking him to stab her, electrocute her, run a chain saw through her, teaching him to kill without feeling. She asks for these things because she says that she likes to feel human again, but she's really honing Joel's ability to kill. That's what makes him "special". On the other hand, Joel does these things out of love for Rachel, until Rachel goes away, that is, and leaves him to do these things to others (altogether, 43 others).
Then it's 1993. Joel's mother died in 1990, and Joel moved to New York two years later. Joel marries Kathy. Two years later, Kathy leaves Joel. He is desolate. He starts looking for Rachel again. When he receives a number of unsigned letters asking him "Are you hungry?" and advising him to "Feed the Hunger" at The Hungry Club, Joel can't resist. He goes to the club and meets another vampire, Angie [Sasha Graham]. Angie feeds on Joel's anger and rage, which actually calms Joel for a while and allows him to build a relationship with human Allison [Jolee Becker]. But he's still in search of Rachel. Meanwhile, Angie is turning Joel into a vampire and hounding him to "go feed" and to be what he was meant to be--a hunter. Seeing Allison as a hindrance to honing Joel's abilities, Angie kills Allison and sets up Joel to take the fall for it. Joel is shot by the police but, as a vampire, he rises again.
In the final scene, ten years later, Joel finally finds Rachel. Rather than loving her, however, he kills her. He hates what she and Angie have made him into. The hunger that Rachel and Angie recognized as the hunter in Joel has turned him into not just a hunter or a vampire but a vampire hunter. [Original synopsis by bj_kuehl].
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