Writer and director Andrew Bell’s new vampire horror movie Bleeding is set to premiere at Grimmfest this Halloween season, and we’ve got the film’s festival trailer for you this week.

Watch the trailer below and find the film’s festival poster underneath.

In Bleeding, “Vampire blood is harvested as a drug, and two desperate teenagers on the run from a vicious dealer break into an empty house and find a sleeping girl locked inside.”

Grimmfest previews, “It might seem a strange claim for a narrative ostensibly about vampires, but this is a film with a rare, raw authenticity; a stark, grim, utterly unsentimental exploration of the nature of addiction, which keeps its genre elements dialed down low, focusing instead on the day to day existence of the small-town, small-time addict; the petty thefts and betrayals of friends and family, the desperate hustles, the confrontations with vicious but low-level dealers and their brutal head-busting goons.

‘The protagonists could just as easily be junkies or crackheads or tweakers as vampires, and the film’s clear-eyed but compassionate and sympathetic depiction of suburban teenage desperation and nihilistic despair owes as much to films such as River’s Edge as it does to more overtly horror-themed narratives, and grounds the film’s more fantastic elements within an all-too-unnervingly real world, making it all the more harrowing, horrifying, and emotionally brutal.”

John R. Howley, Jasper Jones and Tori Wong star.

Nicholas Payne Santos, Andrew Bell, Bofan Zhang, Kenneth Green produced Bleeding.

Andrew Bell is a writer, director, actor and educator from the Pacific Northwest. He holds an MFA from Columbia University. His shorts Let Me Play and Wellness Check have played at festivals across the world and can be found streaming on CryptTV, ShortsTV, and SCREAMBOX.

Bleeding marks Bell’s feature directorial debut.