22nd Calgary Underground Film Festival

April 17-27, 2025 Globe Cinema

13th CUFF.Docs Documentary Film Festival

November 19-23, 2025 Globe Cinema

VAMPIRE ZOMBIES...FROM SPACE!

Canada, 2024: 97 minutes: Alberta Premiere
Globe Cinema
April 25 9:30 PM Buy
Special Guest!
VZFS-3
Globe Cinema
Fri, Apr 25 9:30 PM Buy

description

In 1957, two detectives, a young heroine, and a chain-smoking greaser try to stop Dracula's cosmic plan to turn a small American town into his vampire zombie army before it’s too late.

From the depths of space, Dracula has devised his most dastardly plan yet: turning the residents of Marlow into his personal army of vampire zombies. Terror grips the town as a full-blown zombie outbreak erupts, leaving chaos in its wake. A motley crew consisting of a grizzled detective, a sceptical rookie cop, a chain-smoking greaser, and a determined young woman band together to save the world from — (see title). Packed with gruesome special effects, b-movie miniatures, and gut-busting laughs, VAMPIRE ZOMBIES...FROM SPACE! is a bloody comedy that has its foundation in horror films of the 1950s.

OFFICIAL SELECTION
Eerie Horror Fest 2024
Stockholm International Fantastic Film 2024
Sweden Fright Nights 2024
Vancouver Badass Film Festival 2024
Windsor International Film Festival 2024
Hellifax Horror Fest 2024
Orlando Film Festival 2024
Yellowknife International Film Festival 2024
South African HorrorFest 2024
Buried Alive Film Festival 2024
New York City Horror Film Festival 2024
Morbido Fest 2024
Melbourne Underground Film Festival 2024
Victoria Film Festival 2025

DIRECTOR'S BIO
Michael Stasko is an award-winning filmmaker who has written and directed five feature films that have premiered at prestigious festivals and sold to major distributors. He has also created and produced original TV shows for YTV and CBC. Stasko is a versatile and visionary storyteller who always delivers engaging and entertaining stories for the screen. Works include THINGS TO DO (2006), IODINE (2009), THE BIRDER (2013), THE CONTROL (2018) and BOYS VS. GIRLS (2019). He is currently a film professor at The University of Windsor.

press for Vampire Zombies...From Space!

"VAMPIRE ZOMBIES...FROM SPACE! is an ode to old-school 1950s sci-fi horror. But, not only that, it is hugely inspired by Mel Brooks…. It is ridiculous but in all the right ways."
- MovieHooker
"What makes Michael Stasko’s VAMPIRE ZOMBIES...FROM SPACE! such a pleasant surprise is it’s not only the rare parody that’s actually funny, but the even rarer one that takes chances at being original."
- High on Films

details

Narrative / Horror / Comedy / Sci-Fi

English
97 minutes

special guest

Co-Screenwriter, Co-Producer Jakob Skrzypa and Cast Grace Teskey in attendance

credits

Director
Michael Stasko

Producers
Theodore Bezaire
Gerry Lattmann
Michael Stasko

Screenwriters
Alex Forman
Jakob Skrzypa
Michael Stasko

Cinematographer
Ken Amlin

Cast
Jessica Antovski
Rashaun Baldeo
Andrew Bee
Oliver Georgiou
Craig Gloster
Erik Helle
Lloyd Kaufman
Robert Kemeny
Mark Lefebvre
David Liebe Hart
Judith O'Dea
Simon Reynolds
Nicholas Shields

Music
Ian McGregor Smith

Official website:
https://www.vampirezombiesmovie.com

Twitter:
https://twitter.com/vampirezombies2

Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/vampirezombiesmovie/

Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/vampirezombiesmovie/

awards

Winner, Audience Choice & Student Jury, Ravenna Nightmare Film Festival 2024
Winner, Best Feature Film, Best Ensemble & Best Poster, Terror in the Bay Film Festival 2024
Winner, Best Canadian Feature, Victoria Film Festival 2025
Winner, Best Sci-Fi Feature, New York City Horror Film Festival 2024
Winner, Best Feature Film & Best Director, Buried Alive Film Festival 2024