None of which suggests a vampire film at all. The soundtrack is filled with amiably folksy music and the pace is very laidback. On the face of it, most of the show seems to be a film about smalltown values – relaxed arcs as boy meets girl, about the strange kid to town fighting prejudice, the locals coming to his defence and so on. Rufus also offsets any of your expectations of a vampire film. (It is perhaps for these reasons that the film was retitled Hunted for US release). An even less PC-reading makes you think that maybe the film is some kind of Jim Crow-era comedy featuring atrociously racist caricatures. The title alone makes you think you are going to be watching some kind of boy and his dog drama. On the face of it, a film named Rufus seems to be doing as little as it possibly could to suggest a vampire film. The number of vampire films that have been made since the Twilight phenomenon is close to but not quite zero the number that the public is willing to take seriously and be scared by any longer is even less than that. In the 2010s, the vampire film has become a phenomenon deader than undead ever since Twilight (2008) and sequels reduced the central figure from the scourge of evil and snarling seducer of Victorian maidens that Bram Stoker created to a mopey lovestruck Robert Pattinson. Next, the town is visited by Aaron Van Dousen, the representative of a pharmaceutical company, which had previously held Rufus a prisoner to study his unique biology and are now determined to bring him back. However, the missing bodies and questions about Louise’s death start to raise suspicions. In his need to find more blood, Rufus is forced to attack others. Tracy is certain that Rufus is a vampire, although he lacks many of the qualities usually associated with vampires. When Tracy is attacked by Clay, a guy she split up with, Rufus comes to her defence and savagely attacks Clay, sprouting teeth and claws to drink his blood. Rufus is shy and socially withdrawn but is befriended by the neighbouring girl Tracy McKay. Afterwards, with nowhere to stay, Rufus is taken in by the local sheriff Hugh Wade and his wife Jennifer until everything can be sorted out. As they do, she deliberately steps out into the path of a truck and is killed. The teenage Rufus and his elderly companion Louise Kettle arrive in the tiny nowhere American town of Conrad.
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