Rock guitarist Dex Dregs [Andrew Taylor] used to believe that music was his addiction
as well as his one shot at immortality--until he became a vampire. He's
been able to keep it in check, but the drive for blood seems to be
returning, this time with a venegance. A groupie, his guitar student, an
annoying git at the cinema--Dex never knows who he will kill when the
bloodlust overtakes him. He's also having a problem with remembering
things like his date with girlfriend Linda [Meredith Leigh Sause] and with oversleeping so that
he's constantly late for band practice, recording sessions, and paying
gigs. The other band members are getting p.o.ed at him and Linda thinks
Dex is doing drugs. Only fellow band member Mike [Mike Shaw] knows the truth, as Mike
has taken on the role of renfield, cleaning up after Dex's indiscretions.
When Dex kills an agent from a recording studio, Mike convinces him
that he must take some time out in order to deal with this thing. Dex
knows only that his vampirism has to do with a pocket watch bearing the
initials W.W. and with a train wreck in which the only survivor, Wiley
Wresting, walked away unscathed. Dex pays Wiley [Frank J. Aard] a visit and returns his
watch. Wiley turns out to be a bit touched, but he tells Dex how vampirism
runs in his family and how he (Wiley) overcame it by sheer will power.
Dex returns home and swears off blood but after playing a gig one
night, he collapses. When Linda tries to care for him, Dex feeds on her.
Knowing that he can no longer remain around his family and friends, Dex
quits the band and takes to the streets, playing for coins. A strange
woman walks by one day and tosses into his guitar case a pocketwatch
bearing the initials D.D.