Perfect Creature is steampunk – and the creators can’t figure out that is the genre? Perfect Creature is set in an alternative world where vampires are real – but they aren’t the bad guys any more than any other group in power would be.

The concept is intriguing. Imagine a world where in the 18th and 19th century alchemists unlocked the genetic code and started experimenting unleashing not only deadly plagues, but unlocking the evolution of a new kind of being. Yes, they drink blood, but by drinking their blood, you can be healed.

Over 300 years they grew in power within the Church and state. In this alternative world, there was never the division that came to define our western society. Rather, science became ever more entwined with the Church through the long-lived Brothers, vampires and scholar scientists.

The Brothers are taken from their mothers in infancy and raised to be servants within the Church. Their senses are heightened. Two, literal half-brothers are born and raised within the Church. One to become a leader within the Brothers and the other a great scientist.

The Brothers are trying to figure out how to stop the plagues and why no Brothers have been born in 50 years. One of the scientists involved, the leader’s half-brother, goes mad due to his research.

The scientist goes mad while the leader is forced to confront what his brotherhood has really become. 300 years when none have ever died has led to an inner society that has become corrupted with power. Who shows him this corruption? A combination of his mad half-brother and a lady detective, Lilly, who came from the poorest of the poor to become a successful, and lonely detective. Her backstory includes losing all her family in one of the plagues that has ravaged this alternative world.

Perfect Creature is not a perfect movie by any stretch of the imagination. It is a new and interesting take on the vampire legend with a definite steampunk bent. If you like steampunk and vampire lore, I say rent this and enjoy.