Blood Relatives (2022 film)

Blood Relatives
Promotional release poster
Directed byNoah Segan
Written byNoah Segan
Starring
Distributed byShudder
Release date
  • September 23, 2002 (2002-09-23)
Running time
88 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Blood Relatives is a 2022 American comedy-horror film written and directed by Noah Segan, starring Noah Segan and Victoria Moroles.

Premise

A Jewish vampire named Francis has spent the last century in isolation, driving around the American Midwest. One day he is tracked down by his 15-year-old daughter Jane, and the two reunite as a family.[1]

Cast

Release

Blood Relatives was released in the United States on September 23, 2022, at Fantastic Fest.[2] It is distributed by Shudder.

Reception

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 96% of 28 critics' reviews are positive. The website's consensus reads: "A father-daughter road trip with a vampiric twist, Blood Relatives is one horror-comedy genre mashup that sucks in all the right ways."[3] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 69 out of 100, based on 9 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.[4]

Bobby LePire, writing for Film Threat, gave the film a highly positive review, praising its "whipsmart" screenplay and calling it "a blast from start to finish".[5] Matt Donato of IGN gave the film a mostly positive review, saying that, while "underwhelming at times", it "makes the most of its strengths."[6] Leigh Monson of The A.V. Club comments that "Segan manages to tell a compelling story about two people finding family in a vacuum, employing comedic jolts to maintain intrigue even when the importance of the plot becomes secondary."[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "In Blood Relatives, a lonely vampire story becomes a sanguine affair". The A.V. Club. Retrieved November 3, 2025.
  2. ^ "Blood Relatives: Release info". IMDb. Retrieved November 3, 2025.
  3. ^ "Blood Relatives". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved November 3, 2025.
  4. ^ "Blood Relatives". Metacritic. Fandom, Inc. Retrieved November 3, 2025.
  5. ^ "Blood Relatives review". Film Threat. Retrieved November 3, 2025.
  6. ^ "Blood Relatives Review". IGN. Retrieved November 3, 2025.