The film opens with a news report about a woman who claimed a man tried to bit her at
the grocery store, and when the camera pans away, it shows a family dog looking scared,
watching as its owner, Adam, scramble in fear.
The young man runs to his parents room, where both of them lay dead and covered in blood.
He hides under the bed, and takes a gun.
As he's fumbling with the gun, the creature comes into the room and starts to drag the
father's body away,
right before the vampire finds him, and readies to maul him.
The next scene introduces us to our main character, Charley, a high schooler in Clark County,
Nevada, dragging his broken-down motorcycle home.
He says hi to his neighbor Doris, before pulling up at his driveway.
His mom, Jane, starts complaining about their mysterious new neighbor, who stocks up a pile
of concrete in his driveway for no apparent reason.
The two then get interrupted by Charley’s girlfriend, Amy, who’s come to pick him
up for school.
When Charley's in class, the teacher takes the morning roll and several students are
absent, including one of his best friends, Adam, who we learn has been killed at the
beginning of the movie.
When Charley is hanging at his locker later on, one of his childhood best friends, Ed,
pulls him aside and says that Adam is missing.
And so, Ed proposes that they should go check on him tonight.
Charley is reluctant, because ever since he started dating Amy, he’s started to become
one of the cool kids, meanwhile Ed and Adam are considered losers.
So instead of helping Ed, he goes on a date with Amy instead.
As Amy is dropping him off, he sees his mom flirting with their new neighbor, Jerry, so
the two decide to come over to say hi.
After Jerry retreats inside, Charley finds a message from a pissed off Ed, who threatens
to spread embarrassing childhood stories about Charley if he dares not show up.
This prompts Charley to rush to Adam’s house, where Ed is waiting.
The two try knocking on the door, but there’s no answer, so they break their way in and
sneak inside.
As the two start exploring the dark and empty house, Ed claims that Charley’s new neighbor
Jerry is a vampire.
Ed and Adam had been conducting an investigation on this for a while, and they are more than
certain of Jerry’s identity now, one of the evidences being the fact that Jerry’s
windows are completely blacked out.
He warns Charley to never invite Jerry into his house, because a vampire requires an invitation
to come in.
Of course Charley finds this ridiculous, and the two start arguing about how much Charley
changed since he started hanging with the cool kids, who Ed thinks are nothing but fake
skanks.
On that note, the two part ways.
Ed rides his skateboard home, until the school bully, Mark, ambushes him, prompting him to
climb over a fence to run away.
Unfortunately, he finds none other than Jerry in the random backyard, so he breaks his way
into the random home, thinking Jerry wouldn’t be able to come in.
But he does, because the house is abandoned.
Jerry announces that he knows Ed has been watching him, while Ed begins running upstairs.
He jumps out the window,
but jerry is already outside waiting for him.
Ed then falls into a swimming pool, and here Jerry simply tells him to calm down because
what is going to happen is best for him.
He uses his mental manipulation powers to get Ed’s conviction to waver, before sinking
his fangs into his neck.
On the next day, Charley notices that Ed isn’t at school, so he decides to pay his house
a visit afterwards, but only finds his parents there.
They welcome him with open arms, and he asks for permission to go upstairs under the guise
of borrowing some book.
Inside Ed’s room, he finds a website of a vampire hunter named Peter Vincent.
He also finds a series videos Ed discreetly took in front of Jerry’s house, where we
can see Jerry’s car door moving on its own, proving that Jerry isn’t visible on camera.
This deeply shocks Charley and finally convinces him that what Ed was saying is true.
When he returns home, Jerry suddenly turns up, claiming that he needs a favor; he has
a girl over but he’s run out of beers, so he asks if Charley owns a six-pack, which
Charley nervously says yes to.
Jerry follows him right through his door, but as expected, he doesn’t step in.
Charley digs for the six-pack in his fridge as Jerry watches;
He accidentally breaks a bottle, and Jerry offers to help him clean it up, but the scared
Charley insists he can do it himself.
After handing Jerry the beer and closing the door, he heads upstairs, where Amy is waiting
for him.
Charley’s mind is too preoccupied with thoughts about Jerry now, that he rushes to the window.
He sees the arrival of Jerry’s date for the night, who is none other than one of the
neighbors, Doris.
Charley harshly shoves Amy down the bed when Jerry looks up at them.
Amy has no idea what the hell is wrong with this guy that she decides to leave.
Later that night, Charley is awakened from his sleep by the sound of a woman screaming,
so he calls 911.
But after the police arrives, Jerry smooth-talks his way out of the situation, by saying that
the he simply made a woman scream out of pleasure.
Charley watches this interaction in contempt, and pays attention as Jerry gets into his
car and drives away right after the police leave.
Worried for Doris’s safety, he sneaks into the vampire’s home, and starts looking around.
He finds an occult insignia in Jerry’s study, and takes a picture for evidence.
But before he could find out more, Jerry returns, forcing Charley to hide inside the closet.
Surprisingly, here he finds a secret door leading to a hall with several chambers, one
of which is locked.
He looks through the peep hole and finds Doris there, so he takes out a screwdriver in attempt
to unlock the door.
But unfortunately, he is forced to hide yet again as he hears the sound of Jerry approaching.
Through the door gap, he watches as Jerry drags poor Doris out, and sucks her blood.
As this happens, Doris instructs him to stay quiet.
Afterwards, he throws Doris back inside the chamber and heads back out.
Charley finally unlocks the door to get Doris out of the house safely, while Jerry is preoccupied
with watching TV in the living room.
The two make their way down the stairs, and start heading for the door, until Jerry walks
in and forces them to retreat.
As it turns out, he is only grabbing an apple.
And then, he returns to his TV, an opportunity Charley seizes to escort Doris away.
But on their way out, it is revealed that Jerry is watching them with a sneaky smile.
The two have made their way out, and it is now daylight, but as Doris steps under the
sun, she spontaneously combusts, traumatizing Charlie.
When he returns to the house, he warns his mom to stay away from Jerry, and to not ever
invite him to their house, which confuses her.
At school, he decides to research about a vampire hunter, whose website Ed kept open
in his computer, Peter Vincent.
He then proceeds to track the guy down, which leads him to the venue of a theatrical show
the guy holds.
Pretending to be a reporter, he gets an audience with Peter Vincent in his very apartment,
which is decorated with various supernatural hunting weapons.
But when he starts asking how to kill a vampire, and shows him a print-out of the occult insignia
he found at Jerry’s house, the man calls him a nut job and kicks him out.
With no other choice, Charley goes home and puts up garlic and crosses around his room.
Meanwhile, the school bullies, Mark and Ben watch from outside his window in wonder.
Jerry then walks up to them, and within less than a minute, attacks the two.
Meanwhile back inside the house, Charley is carving out stakes to arm himself, until his
girlfriend shows up and asks him why he’s been acting so weird.
But before he gets to explain, Jerry comes knocking on their door to ask Jane to hand
over her son, because Charley broke into his house the other day.
Jane is shocked to hear this, but decides to trust her son Charley, so she tells Jerry
to go bleep himself.
This angers the vampire, so he takes a shovel and starts digging the backyard of Charley’s house,
and pulls out the gas line to set it on fire.
This causes the fireplace to explode, burning the house.
Now assured that Jerry is dangerous, the three pile inside the car and start driving away.
Jerry attempts to go after them with Charley’s motorcycle, but its front wheel is busted,
so he throws it at the car, scaring Amy.
When Charley tries explaining that Jerry is a vampire, his mom still refuses to believe him.
Not long after, Jerry comes ramming his truck against the back.
He also rams his vehicle into the side of their car, before passing them and blocking
the road.
Jane panics, but Charley yells at her to keep driving, so she does.
Unfortunately, they are in for more trouble, as Jerry is still clinging to the underside
of the car, and manages to claw his way through the car floor.
It appears that he has returned to his true form now.
Charley begins kicking to get him off, and Jane finally stops the car once he’s gone.
But then, another vehicle crashes into their car, and the angry driver steps out.
It is now that Jerry lifts the car; in his vampire form, he approaches and attacks the
driver, draining his blood.
Charley then courageously steps in with a big cross to arm himself, while telling his
mom and girlfriend to run.
He slowly approaches Jerry, who has now returned to his human form.
But surprisingly, the cross only burns when it comes into contact with the vampire, and
he easily throws Charley into their car.
While he teases Charley about stupid humans and their penchant for missing the heart when
staking vampires, Jane sneaks up behind them and impales Jerry with a road sign, making
him squeal in pain.
At the same time, Jane collapses, so Charley and Amy carry her up, and the three climb
inside the dead man’s car.
Charley purposely slams into his family car causing it to topple on top of Jerry.
When the family flees the scene, we can see Jerry’s bones realigning.
At the hospital, the police also arrive to ask them what happened, but of course Charley
doesn’t reveal anything because he knows they won’t believe him.
Meanwhile, Peter Vincent decides to study the print-out Charley left at his office the
other day, and finally realizes that Charley wasn’t trying to mess with him.
He calls him up, and asks him to come to his place.
Once the three finally converge at Peter Vincent’s place, he eventually opens up to them.
He says that the insignia belongs to a very strong vampire breed that emerged from Mediterranean,
and would keep their victims alive for days in order to turn them into vampires as well.
According to him, Charley has no chance against this vampire, as killing this species would
require an army.
All of the sudden, Vincent gets a call announcing that he’s got a package delivery, so he
asks the delivery guy to come in and tells his girlfriend to fetch the package for him.
However as it turns out, it was only a ploy.
Ed walks in, having been turned into a vampire now.
Vincent fetches a crucifixion nail to threaten him, but then cowardly scrambles in fear as
Ed chases after him, and the sliding door severs Ed’s arm off just as he’s about
to catch Vincent.
While this is going on, Charley and Amy stumble upon Vincent’s girlfriend’s dead body
at the entrance, and discover that the elevator switch has been smashed, meaning they have
to find another exit route.
This leaves them with no option, but to hide behind a shelf, as Ed starts looking for them.
After the two knock the shelf on top of Ed, Charley takes the nearest blade and tells
his girlfriend to go to safety.
Ed proceeds to choke and throws him across the room, but Charley rises again and takes
the axe displayed on the wall.
The two face-off, and Charley wildly swings his axe at Ed, until it finally lands in his throat.
On the other side of the apartment, Amy arms herself with a gun and silver bullets, right
as Jerry the vampire arrives.
She tries shooting him, but it barely harms him as it’s meant for werewolves.
Not out of ideas, she finds the holy grail, and splashes the holy water in his face, momentarily
incapacitating him.
If you think Ed’s dead, he’s not; he simply realigns his neck, and proceeds to attack
Charley, pinning him down and gets ready to bite into his neck,
until Amy steps in and smacks him with a flail.
When Ed rises again, Charley reluctantly stakes him through his heart, causing Ed to briefly
revert back to his true self, and tells Charley that it’s okay before dematerializing into ash.
After announcing that Jerry is here, the two proceed to escape through a door that leads
to a night club, while Jerry who seemingly has recovered from the holy water comes after them.
Just as the two are forced apart by the crowd, Jerry finds the girl and drags her away.
With his mental manipulation power, he gets her to taste his blood and fully incapacitates
her as he kisses her.
Meanwhile, Charley tries to come after her, but a security guard starts dragging him away,
leaving him no choice but to watch as Jerry sucks her blood.
When he returns to Peter Vincent’s apartment later, the man is packing his bags to leave.
Vincent confesses that he never killed a vampire before, and only started collecting supernatural-killing
devices out of trauma because his parents were murdered by a vampire.
After hearing how Charley vows to kill Jerry, he hands Charley a special stake that is said
to have the ability to turn a vampire’s victims back into human when the OG vampire
is staked.
To add, he also informs Charley that a vampire couldn’t think straight when they’re set
on fire.
Afterwards, Charley heads to a thrift store, and purchases several items, including a crossbow.
He gears up and heads to Jerry’s house, making sure to break all the windows to let
sunlight in.
Charley then finds Amy inside one of the chambers, but hears her get snatched away shortly before
he gets to her.
When he comes back out, he stumbles upon Peter Vincent, who is armed and has come to help
him.
Here they discover a floor trap under the chamber wherein Amy was held, and proceed
to jump down.
The two tread down the hall and walk past a door, but unbeknownst to them, Jerry is
lurking behind them.
He then snatches Peter off the ground, and Charley tries shooting him, but jerry catches
the arrow.
Up next, Jerry closes the door, locking Charley away from him and Peter.
Peter starts backing up while shooting Jerry, but bullets don’t seem to stop him.
At last, Jerry flicks a pebble at his forehead, causing him to bleed.
It is now revealed that Jerry is not alone, and the young vampires that he bit start crawling
out of the soil walls, attracted by the smell of blood.
Meanwhile on the other side of the basement, Charley finds Amy, whose mind is now corrupted
by the vampire.
She pins Charley down, while Peter begins shooting the young vampires with his special
shotgun, but it jams after a couple of shots.
As Amy takes out her fangs to bite Charley, he stakes her, but missing the heart on purpose.
Charley then pries the door open, and as soon as he sees Peter is in trouble, he shoots
the ceiling, creating little sunlight holes to save Peter.
Jerry discovers that Peter has been bitten, seeing that he's starting to smoke in the
sunlight, and is slowly turning into a vampire as well.
Charley’s effort is not enough, as the young vampires, one of them being Mark the high
school bully, corner the two, while Amy walks up to Jerry and starts kissing him passionately.
With Jerry distracted, Charley uses Peter’s lighter to set himself on fire, and makes
a jump on Jerry, revealing to us that his suit is fireproof after all.
Jerry begins screaming and thrashing about as Charley clings to him, creating a big hole
in the ceiling which lets more sunlight in and burns Jerry.
Peter then throws Charley the stake, and he stabs it through Jerry’s heart, turning
him into dust and drifts away.
It is at this point that the young vampires turn back into humans, with absolutely no
memory of how they got in the basement.
Both Charley's friends and several other people are brought back to life, and this is where
the movie ends.