Weirdest vampire movie ever.

A town rises up and kills their evil mayor and his wife, then bury them at the crossroads. They celebrate by looting his mansion and drinking his alcohol.

The next day, a young man, Vlad, who left town to pursue a cooking career in Italy but failed, is back. He expects life to be the same as when he left, but things are not the same. An old, hated man has died, supposedly by accident, and everyone is keeping the required three day vigil over his dead body (to be sure he’s not a strigoi).

But Vlad suspects foul play. There are bruises around the old man’s neck. So, he gets the police involved. Then truly strange things begin to happen. The policeman is attacked when he visits the mayor’s home. The mayor acts strange when Vlad visits with him. The mayor’s wife is eating everything in the mansion. And everyone in town is confused and uneasy when Vlad says he talked with the mayor.

The policeman shows up, looking worse for the wear and smoking cigarettes like a chimney. Vlad keeps trying to figure out what happened.

What it boils down to is this: whatever they were craving when they died, the strigoi crave with an out-of-control need when they come back. The mayor’s wife eats every bit of food in town. The policeman smokes every cigarette he can find. And the mayor wants to prove that he owns all the land in the village and around it.

But it’s up to Vlad to kill the strigoi. He has to cut out their hearts and burn them. Except he’s a pansy and gets sick at the sight of gore. So, he works to overcome his weakness and starts by killing the policeman, who was the closest thing he had to a friend in town.

Acting as strangely as he has, most of the town thinks Vlad is a stragoi and plan to kill him as well. Somehow, Vlad talks his way out of being killed. He then sets his sights on the mayor and after learning that the mayor does in fact own everything, he confronts the townspeople who shrug and say the mayor got what he deserved. Then Vlad goes to meet the mayor at his grave at dawn to kill him.

Very strange movie. There is a plot, but I fear it’s overshadowed by the vampire mayhem. The sub-plot is that after the war, no one had any money and while some wily people kept their papers for their property, most didn’t and all the land got auctioned and bought by the mayor. There were two supposed hold-outs and one actually sold his land, but kept his papers. The other was killed by the mayor for his papers. So, the greed of the mayor was his driving force and his need to prove that he did own everything is what dragged him from his grave.

I suggest drinking before watching, it might be easier to follow.