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runtime 99:33mins
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Cast

* Dougray Scott as Silus
* Saffron Burrows as Lilly
* Leo Gregory as Edgar
* Scott Wills as Jones
* Stuart Wilson as Augustus
* John Sumner as Howard
* Peter McCauley as Professor Liepsky
* Danielle Cormack as a Pregnant Woman
PLOT

This psychological thriller is set in an alternate steampunk universe. Technologies represented include zeppelins, radio, black & white TV (small circular images), DNA analysis, slide projectors, cars (1940's styling) and telephones. The architecture is very similar to Oxford in The Golden Compass. Women appear to play an equal part in all roles in this society, as we see female cops, reporters and a female medical examiner.

The film takes place in a large coastal city (likely the capital, as the Queen lives in it), and is centered around a slum called Jamestown.

Three hundred years ago some human children began to be born as vampires. These have enhanced hearing, sight, agility, stamina and reflexes. In this universe vampires are considered a more perfect version of humans; i.e. closer to God. They have taken over the Catholic Church (the only variant of religion seen in this film, possibly the only one existing), and are called Brothers. They wear unadorned long black coats, and look very monseignor-ish. The Brothers state that they exist only to serve humans; to protect and guide them. Brothers live much longer than humans; the oldest are 300 years old and none have died yet. Vampires are removed from their mothers at birth, indoctrinated into the Brotherhood, and raised to believe they are superior to humans.

Human churchgoers donate blood for the Brothers to drink (one character states his mother gives blood three times a month at church, and in one scene we also see an elegant woman at a swanky party donating blood into a large collecting vessel with a tap at the bottom, from which Brothers are served in elaborate chased goblets). Brothers never drink blood straight from the human body.

Churchgoers wear rosaries; however not all humans are churchgoers. At some more infrequent church ceremonies humans also drink the Brothers' blood, and this gives them visions (some may experience prescience). The liturgy of the church states that mingling the blood of the two races makes one titular Perfect Creature.

Brothers also hold religious education classes for young human children, where the children are taught that Brothers are superior, and also learn that all genetic research is banned because nothing but evil comes from it (including the deadly influenza which is rife in the city). Genetic research is mainly banned so that humans don't attempt to get rid of vampires. Brothers posit an alternate universe where their early numbers were killed, they failed to gain control of the church, and they became nothing more than a myth from 300 years ago. They apparently fear that, if undoctrinated, humans would envy them their long lives, and attempt to take control from them .

The film opens as a pregnant woman (Danielle Cormack) gives birth to a vampire. A young Brother, Silus, aged 7–8 is told that this child, Edgar, and he are from the same mother; it is his responsibility to guide the baby into the Brotherhood. Throughout this introduction the mother is in visible emotional distress, reaching out across the room to Silus, trying to touch him. He observes her calmly if slightly warily through unemotional eyes.

Now we skip forward a number of years (the caption claims "100 Years Later," but dress/technology etc is not noticeably changed). Jamestown slum is under a thrall of fear from a series of attacks on women, who are all found with their throats slashed. Lilly Squires (Saffron Burrows) is in charge of the human police investigating these cases. She states she comes from a workhouse in this same slum, and we establish that she is one of the few cops who care what happens to these people at the bottom of the socioeconomic heap. Lilly finds a small boy who witnesses one attack, and states that a Brother was responsible. The string of murders is being covered up as an outbreak of the rampant influenza virus, as the police don't want to start a panic in the city.

Silus (Dougray Scott) is detailed by the church cardinals to work with the human police because the Brothers know that these attacks have been carried out by a Brother; Silus' brother Edgar (Leo Gregory). Edgar has sent Silus a recording of his last murder, challenging him to find and stop him before he kills again. Edgar gives the location of his next murder.

With Silus' help, Lilly puts together a task force to stake out the area Edgar has targeted. However Edgar distracts the cops and attacks Lilly, biting her in the neck. Silus interrupt the attack and Edgar flees. To save Lilly's life Silus slashes his wrist on one of the other cops' knives and offers her his wrist, and tells her to drink his own blood, which she does. Once her life is saved Silus leaps off in pursuit of Edgar, and manages to shoot him with a tranquilizing dart.

Silus visits Lilly in hospital. We establish that no family will visit; her husband and daughter have already been killed by the influenza virus, and we already know she was raised in the workhouse. Lilly is having visions from drinking Silus' blood, involving a moth, a doll, blood, and Edgar's face. The newspapers have covered the (fake) story of the death of the killer; a deranged human who believed he was a Brother.

Silus then goes to the sub-basement of the church. There he sees that Edgar is held in a 'brace', a spiked body restraint. Because Silus is soon to be made a member of the "inner circle" he is given the full details of what happened to Edgar.

The cardinals have been very worried that not a single Brother has been born since Edgar (70 years earlier), and that a female vampire has never been born. Although they have publicly banned genetic research, the church has been carrying it out in secret. Edgar has been developing a virus to inject into pregnant women, to force the baby to be born a vampire. Alas the virus has mutated, and it has turned the women into violent, insane, psycopaths. We learn that ten of Edgar's research subjects are already dead, and the last one is dying. Edgar has also become infected, and has gone insane.

Silus visits Edgar, who vows to escape and finish off Lilly. Edgar accuses Silus of being in love with Lilly, despite Brothers being forbidden to love.

Edgar is held for some time. He is held in a semi-spherical cell, observed through a bullet-proof glass wall by two jailers. The jailers can release stupefying gas if they fear he is becoming too violent. From time to time Edgar runs the length of his cell and head-butts the window. Over time Edgar notices a small crack is appearing in the glass. On occasions he comes right up to the window and stands there banging his head rhythmically, as if insane, but really enlarging the crack.

One night, Silus is at a fancy ceremony in the church (along with every member of the Brotherhood) for his investiture as a cardinal. This night Edgar escapes and infects a researcher by forcing him to drink his blood.


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0403407/


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