His father has a small run down garage that sells gasoline and his mother constantly chides the man for stinking of the stuff.
He has a slightly odd encounter with their neighbour Dolphin Blue (Lindsey Duncan), a widow who has a home filled with curiosities, where she cries and shows him keepsakes of her dead husband and Seth takes a strong dislike to her.
Later, on being regaled by tales of Vampires from a pulp novel his father is reading he decides Dolphin must be a vampire. When his friends start turning up dead it just makes him more sure.
No good will come of this.
CW: animal cruelty, suicide
Weird gothic nonsense that's overacted and slow as fuck. An early performance from Viggo Mortensen is a curiosity.
It's very interesting to look at and has internal logic despite the oddness, could almost be David Lynch but it's not quite weird enough. Dreamy and tinged with melancholy despite nominally being from a child's viewpoint.
4/10, at the end of the day it was boring and very very dated.