Blood Ties

Blood Ties (1991)

Only revenge is sweeter than blood.

Carpathian Americans are just like any other expatriate organization, they enjoy family get together, and share business opportunities. There is just one minor difference, the Carpathian Americans seem to have a predilection for drinking human blood.

Date of release
1991-05-27
TMDB
4.9 / 10 (17)
Runtime
1h 24m
Genres
Horror, Thriller, TV Movie
Director
Jim McBride

Casting

Interesting facts

Blood Ties is a 1991 American horror thriller television film directed by Jim McBride, written by Richard Shapiro, and starring Harley Venton, Patrick Bauchau, Jason London, and Michelle Johnson. It is a story about a modern vampire family who hail from Carpathia. The family try to assimilate into American life in Long Beach, California, but their lives are upset when a sinister group of hunters kill a member of their extended kin and threaten to come after them. The film aired on the Fox network on May 27, 1991.

Background

It is hinted that the Carpathian families are the people who inspired all the myths about vampires. In the film, they are descended from Lilith (first wife of Adam before Eve) and Asmodeus (King of the Nine Hells) and have inherited healing abilities as well as above average human strength.

They consider the word "vampire" to be a racist term against their kind and have strict rules against breeding with anyone outside their race.

The Carpathian families are divided into a council of Elders, the more timid family members and their vicious young blood who taken on the form of a biker gang called the Shrikes.

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