Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat

Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Anthony Hickox
Produced by	Dan Ireland Jack Lorenz Jefferson Richard
Written by	John Burgess Anthony Hickox
Starring	David Carradine Morgan Brittany Bruce Campbell Jim Metzler Maxwell Caulfield Deborah Foreman M. Emmet Walsh
Music by	Richard Stone
Edited by	Christopher Cibelli
Distributed by	Vestron Pictures
Release date	1989 (1989)
Running time	104 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$2.8 million

Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat is a 1989 American western comedy horror film directed by Anthony Hickox and starring David Carradine, Bruce Campbell and Morgan Brittany. It was written by Hickox and John Burgess.

Filmed in and around Moab, Utah, in 1988, Sundown was Vestron Pictures' last film and it was never released to theaters. Its only public screenings were at film festivals in Seattle and Palm Springs, as well as a Cannes release in 1989. Released in 1991 on VHS and in 2008 on DVD, it has earned a cult following.

Under the leadership of their ancient and powerful leader Jozek Mardulak, a colony of vampires seek a peaceful life in the desolate desert town of Purgatory. Key to the transition is the town's artificial-bloodmaking facility and it is just not working. Mardulak summons the human designer of the plant, who brings his wife and two young daughters along for what he thinks will be a pleasant desert vacation. Soon, he and his family are caught up in a civil war as another vampire elder, who abhors the idea of vampires being anything other than predators, organizes a revolution, and a descendant of the Van Helsing family arrives intent on destroying all vampires.