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DreadClub: Vampire’s Verdict

by Hooroo Jackson

A college romance becomes a courtroom battle over an accusation of vampirism.

Format
Feature
Genre
Animated gothic romance
Year
2024
Runtime
88 min
Added
17 Sept 2026

The film combines romantic melodrama with a trial, giving character relationships and accusations a common narrative spine.

Why this film matters

A feature needs recurring characters to remain legible across many scenes. This is an early, sustained attempt to solve that problem in an anime vocabulary. The different released cuts also make a useful distinction between a production experiment and an editorial revision.

The filmmaker lists streaming and physical editions on the linked film page; availability varies by platform.

Production notebook

What the makers have disclosed. Credits may be partial.

01

Budget, time and team

Jackson reports a $405 production, one maker and a six-month process in 2024, drawing on more than 17,000 generated images.

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Editions

The Blu-ray includes a Machine Cut and a Director’s Cut containing non-machine elements. These should not be conflated.

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