FERAT VAMPIR

​“A satire on consumerism, a potent piece of anti-automobile propaganda and the purest horror exercise that Herz produced.” – Nick Pinkerton, Metrograph

FERAT VAMPIR lives in the same heady car-sploitation realm as CHRISTINE, TITANE and Cronenberg’s CRASH, and has art direction by animation auteur Jan Svankmajer. Jiří Menzel (director of the Oscar-winning CLOSELY WATCHED TRAINS) plays milquetoast doctor Marek. Enamoured of his ambulance driver Mima (Dagmar Veškrnová, later the wife of Czech president Václav Havel), he’s upset when she leaves him to race for foreign car manufacturer Ferat  —  and more upset by rumours that Ferat’s prized rally car runs on human blood!