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The concept behind Alice and the Vampire Queen sounds like something one is better off reading instead of witnessing it as a film. Here, Writer-director Dan Lantz fashions a world that’s very suited to exist as an RPG scenario in White Wolf’s Worlds of Darkness. This game organises the various undead and monster factions into groups, and some operate shops to cater to their kind; mortal patrons are often unaware, and when they get caught up in their imagination, what results can either be pleasant or painful.
And when the matriarch pines for something tasty, sometimes “recruiting” outside their circle is required. Here, the title character gets a deep look through the looking glass about not only herself, but in what lurks in the night. Nobody respects Alice (Shelby Hightower), and her attitude isn’t exactly sweet. Whatever changed her, and that paranoia defines her. This introduction plays through the rest of the film when she’s “taken.”
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