Washington DC Independent Film Festival 2010

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Undead is a comedy about the connection between Hamlet, the Holy Grail, and some sexy vampires. Julian Marsh is an out of work ladies' man who lives in his dad's medical office to avoid paying rent. Forced by his father to find work, Julian lands a job directing a bizarre off-Broadway adaptation of Hamlet that reveals the unknown true story behind Shakespeare's play. When his best friend Vince and his ex-girlfriend Anna are cast as Hamlet and Ophelia, Julian sees a chance to win Anna back from her new lover, Bobby Bianchi, a rich, sleazy tycoon with reputed links to the mob. Julian's happiness is short-lived. Anna falls for the playwright, Theo Horace, a suave, pale Romanian who commands a pair of beautiful and dangerous 'slaves'. When Vince dies suddenly and mysteriously, Julian is approached by a secret society with an incredible story: Theo's play, 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead,' is actually his autobiography.Theo is a master vampire, more than 2000 years old, ob