FIREBITE (full review at Screen Realm)

Firebite is an Australian vampire series created by Warwick Thornton and Brendan Fletcher  which is streaming in Australia on AMC (via Amazon) from 16 December. It’s a unique spin on the vampire myth which takes the creatures out of their traditionally cold, dark environs and places them in the hot, bright outback sunshine.

Vampires were transported to Australia in the hold of colonial ships, brought over by the British to deal with the Indigenous population. But in the two centuries since, they have been kept at bay by a solitary band of fierce Aboriginal vampire hunters known as Blood Hunters. Tyson (Rob Collins) fights the local vampire population in the small mining town of Opal City. He trained to be a Blood Hunter but was forced to stop before his training was complete. With the help of his adoptive daughter Shanika (Shantae Barnes-Cowan) they keep the numbers under control.

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IMDB: Firebite

JAKOB'S WIFE (full review at Screen Realm)

Anne (Barbara Crampton) is married to small town minister Jakob (Larry Fessenden), although their marriage is in trouble. Jakob doesn’t listen to Anne. He speaks over her and on her behalf and his overbearing behaviour has Anne questioning whether she wants to stay.

So Anne reconnects with an old flame, Tom (Robert Rusler), but while out together they are attacked by a supernatural creature, turning Anne into vampire. As luck would have it, vampirism turns out to be just the boost she needs. Anne’s new found blood lust and aversion to sunlight come hand-in-hand with assertiveness and self-confidence.

Unfortunately you can’t be a vampire in a small town for long before somebody starts to notice. Local police begin to snoop around the various disappearances in town, and when Jakob discovers the truth, he and Anne set out to find and destroy the head vampire.
 
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IMDB: Jakob's Wife