Silencio (Scottish Premiere)

Part of Dundead Film Festival 2026. DCA Supporters, Members and 18-25 Members get early access to tickets and passes (log in to access) with the festival opening for general sale on Fri 27 March at 10:00.

Eduardo Casanova’s generation-spanning vampire mini-epic is a camp visual tour de force, with phenomenal costume and prosthetic works and, in one standout moment, litres of fake blood. 

Initially envisioned as a series, the film is split into three chapters, and it has been playing the festivals as a feature, a format that we think is to its benefit. Set across three different time periods, its nearly all female cast bring to life a fiercely queer tale of visual flamboyance, drugs, depressed and volatile vampires, the Aids crisis of the 1980s, an imagined near future, musical moments and more besides. It is a truly packed hour of content. 

Transgressive and deliberately abrasive in places, Silencio is unafraid to present its characters as flawed and contradictory. It is a film which plays with the image of the vampire in pop culture, and while there are many metaphorical underpinnings to it all, there is also a beating (and bloodied) heart.