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THIRSTBOUND

STEAMBAT PICTURES UG (HAFTUNGSBESCHRÄNKT) - as PROD

Horror - Development 2026

Saved from death but not from trauma, a young vampire drowns her past in blood – until addiction fractures her body and mind beyond recognition, leaving only a broken, grotesque shell.

- Year of production
- 2026
- Genres
- Horror, Drama
- Countries
- GERMANY
- Duration
- 100 mn
- Synopsis
- After surviving a fatal car crash that claimed the lives of all her friends, Ella is left haunted by unbearable guilt and hollow grief. In her most broken moment, she encounters Artur — a vampire who saves her from death by turning her into something not quite human. Years later, in the decaying town of Sonnenburg, Ella drowns her trauma in blood, clinging to survival by feeding from blood banks. But her hunger grows insatiable, and with each drop, the fragile walls holding her human side together begin to crumble.
  
  Her addiction is no longer just a thirst — it becomes a grotesque, uncontrollable force that mutates her flesh and fractures her mind beyond recognition. While Artur maintains a careful balance, sustaining his humanity through rigid self-control, Ella spirals deeper into brutal self-destruction. Her body twists and decays, monstrous and broken, as the trauma she tried to bury resurfaces in horrifying form.
  
  Thirstbound is a visceral body horror story about addiction, identity, and the agony of losing oneself. Blending raw emotional depth with unflinching physical horror, the film portrays vampirism not as power, but as a slow, inevitable collapse of flesh and soul — a brutal metaphor for the fight against inner demons, and the devastation when that fight is lost.