Blood and Donuts is a Canadian comedy

Comedy

Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...

/horror

Horror film

Horror films seek to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's most primal fears. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres...

 motion picture directed by Holly Dale

Holly Dale

Holly Dale is a Canadian film and television director and film producer. She received a Gemini Award in 2008 for Best Direction in a Dramatic Series ....

, and starring Gordon Currie

Gordon Currie

Gordon Currie is a Canadian and American actor. He has also directed, written and produced several films. He works in both the U.S. and Canada in television and film roles. He is probably best known for his role as Nicolae Carpathia in Left Behind-Early life:Currie was born in Vancouver, British...

 and Helene Clarkson

Helene Clarkson

Helene Clarkson is a Canadian actress. She has worked in both the U.S. and Canada in television and film roles. She has most notably starred in the 1995 Canadian movie, Blood and Donuts, earning a Genie Award nomination in 1995 for Best Actress. She has also acted in several TV movies, as well as...

, with David Cronenberg

David Cronenberg

David Paul Cronenberg, OC, FRSC is a Canadian filmmaker, screenwriter and actor. He is one of the principal originators of what is commonly known as the body horror or venereal horror genre. This style of filmmaking explores people's fears of bodily transformation and infection. In his films, the...

 playing a cameo role as the local crime boss. The film features a vampire who is accidentally awakened after 25 years of sleep, and starts to shyly make contact with the mortal world around him. As he interacts and begins to care for the people around him, he gets mixed up in their problems and they in his.

Plot

A vampire named Boya is awakened from his sleep by a golf ball. He has not been awake since 1969, and marvels at his new surroundings. He does not feed on humans but instead on rats and animals. He meets up with a cab driver who is in trouble with some criminals, and a female donut shop worker who gets stuck in the middle. Befriending them both, and slowly falling in love with Molly, they take on each others' problems. He tries to protect them, but also endangers them by drawing the attention of an ex-lover from decades past who hasn't stopped looking for him in 25 years.

Awards and nominations

Blood and Donuts was nominated in 1996 for the Genie Awards in 3 categories: Best Achievement in Costume Design (Emma England), Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role (Helene Clarkson

Helene Clarkson

Helene Clarkson is a Canadian actress. She has worked in both the U.S. and Canada in television and film roles. She has most notably starred in the 1995 Canadian movie, Blood and Donuts, earning a Genie Award nomination in 1995 for Best Actress. She has also acted in several TV movies, as well as...

), and Best Original Screenplay (Andrew Rai Berzins). Though Blood and Donuts was not a runaway hit, it has since developed a cult following.

Cast

• Gordon Currie
  Gordon Currie
  Gordon Currie is a Canadian and American actor. He has also directed, written and produced several films. He works in both the U.S. and Canada in television and film roles. He is probably best known for his role as Nicolae Carpathia in Left Behind-Early life:Currie was born in Vancouver, British...
  
  as Boya
• Justin Louis
  Justin Louis
  Luís Ferreira is a Portuguese-born Canadian actor...
  
  as Earl
• Helene Clarkson
  Helene Clarkson
  Helene Clarkson is a Canadian actress. She has worked in both the U.S. and Canada in television and film roles. She has most notably starred in the 1995 Canadian movie, Blood and Donuts, earning a Genie Award nomination in 1995 for Best Actress. She has also acted in several TV movies, as well as...
  
  as Molly
• Fiona Reid
  Fiona Reid
  Fiona Reid, CM is a Canadian television, film and stage actress. She is best known for her role as Cathy on the TV series King of Kensington....
  
  as Rita
• Frank Moore
  Frank Moore
  Frank C. Moore II was a New York-based painter, winner of the Logan Medal of the arts, and a member of the Visual AIDS Artist Caucus—the organization responsible for the Ribbon Project, A Day Without Art, and A Night Without Light.Born in Manhattan in 1953, Moore moved with his family to Long...
  
  as Pierce
• Hadley Kay
  Hadley Kay
  Hadley Kay is a Canadian-born voice actor who appeared in the first two Care Bears movies: as the voice of magician Nicholas in The Care Bears Movie and as the villain Dark Heart in Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation. He also voiced P.C...
  
  as Axel
• David Cronenberg
  David Cronenberg
  David Paul Cronenberg, OC, FRSC is a Canadian filmmaker, screenwriter and actor. He is one of the principal originators of what is commonly known as the body horror or venereal horror genre. This style of filmmaking explores people's fears of bodily transformation and infection. In his films, the...
  
  as Crime Boss
• J Winston Carroll as Bernie
• Earl Pastko
  Earl Pastko
  Earl Pastko an American - Canadian actor. Born December 10, 1965 in Chicago, Illinois. He stands approximately 5"9" and he's a founding member of the Remains Theater Company. He moved to Canada in 1984. He's best known for roles in as Colonel Alexi Zukhov, Highway 61 and The Sweet Hereafter...
  
  as Donut Shop Junkie
• Susan Kottman as Old Lady
• Charles Hayter as Old Wino