Carmilla
“Love will have its sacrifices”
Laura Hollis, a newly enrolled college student at Silas University, shares a room with Betty, who mysteriously disappears all of a sudden. Little does Laura know that after this fateful night, nothing will be the same in her life, starting with meeting her new roommate from hell, Carmilla Karnstein. "Carmilla" is a single-camera, scripted transmedia series that puts a modern spin on the cult classic Gothic vampire novella by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. It's a story of a young woman’s susceptibility to the attentions of a female vampire.
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Carmilla | Series Trailer | Based on the J. Sheridan Le Fanu Novella
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Laura Hollis is three weeks into her first semester at Silas University, where things have gotten off to a weird start. And then her roommate, Betty, mysteriously disappears after a party. A cryptic note leads Laura to believe that this isn't just a case of partying too hard. Determined to find Betty, Laura summons her inner Veronica Mars and starts her own investigation. Not at all complicating things, a mysterious girl, Carmilla Karnstein, bursts through the door, and introduces herself as Laura's new roommate. Who is Carmilla, what happened to Betty, and what's behind the strange events at Silas University?
1.Disorientation
7.019-08-20145mLaura Hollis, new college student at Silas University in picturesque Styria, Austria, is working on a journalism project documenting the weirdness of her new school. Convinced by h...
2.Missing
7.019-08-20145mSince nobody saw anything at the party or even seems to care that Betty is missing, and after endless calls with officials from Silas University to investigate her disappearance, L...
3.The Roommate
8.019-08-20145mAs it turns out after 3 days, Betty is nowhere to be found on campus, and the girl who burst into Laura's room and introduced herself as Carmilla is in fact her new roommate - from...
4.Freak OUT
7.019-08-20145mLaura meets up with her floor don Lola Perry and Perry's friend S. LaFontaine to discuss the freaky blood that poured out of Carmilla's milk container. Ultimately, she wants to get...
5.Patterns
8.019-08-20145mLaura is eager to interview the two girls that went missing before and then re-appeared and asks Perry to arrange a meeting. Enter Carmilla, who explains that the blood was a prank...
6.Why Bother?
7.019-08-20145mGetting into a heavy argument with Carmilla about how rude she was to the two girls and about her efforts to shed light onto Betty's disappearance in general, Laura makes a bold de...
7.Town Hall
8.021-08-20145mRecounting the dramatic and fishy events from the dreaded Town Hall meeting, at which The Dean warned students to spread rumors about missing girls online, Laura finds a co-investi...
8.Pitsa i Thanato
8.026-08-20145mCharming safety escorts Wilson Kirsch and Will Luce, two members of the Zeta Omega Mu fraternity, came to Laura's rescue and protection. While they - kind of - overstayed their wel...
9.Nancy Drew
7.028-08-20145mLaura is very happy about her many new online followers and teams up with Danny to find similarities between the four girls and the circumstances of them gone missing and re-appear...
10.The Real Betty
7.002-09-20145mIrritated by Natalie's and Sarah-Jane's weird change in behavior, Laura facebook-stalks Betty and discovers that her missing roommate wasn't the real Betty, so to speak. Even more...
11.A Visit From The Dean
7.004-09-20145mBehind closed door, Laura, Perry and LaFontaine secretly listen to The Dean repremanding Carmilla. Laura's initial schadenfreude vanishes when they're alone and Carmilla seems very...
12.Evidence
7.009-09-20145mApparently, Laura has to step up her surveillance a notch because Carmilla suspiciously shows up in party photos with Sarah-Jane, Natalie and studdy buddy Elsie right before they w...
13.I, Spy
8.011-09-20145mWhen Laura mentions to Carmilla her continuing bad dreams, her roomy initially mocks her about it - until she shows some compassion and, in a very flirtatious way, offers her a cre...
14.Research Trip
7.016-09-20145mLaura and LaFontaine decide to crash a Faculty Club meeting in order to present evidence to The Dean that Carmilla is evil. When they get thrown out, Laura is able to grab a photo...
15.My Roommate, The Vampire
8.018-09-20145mLaFontaine's revelation came as a late surprise without warning to Laura, but suddenly the behavior of her roomy did make a lot of sense to her. Question is, what do you do with a...
16.Best Laid Plans
7.023-09-20145mThe "Scoobies" are still trying to figure out how to lure Carmilla into a trap with Laura as the bait, when Kirsch, Will, Sarah-Jane and Natalie show up to invite her to a party. R...
17.It's A Trap
8.025-09-20145mThe night of the party, Laura is hopeful that their plan will work and that they can capture Carmilla in the crowd - until she suddenly shows up with a bottle of expensive champagn...
18.While You Weren't Watching
7.030-09-20145mIt didn't quite work as planned - nevertheless, Carmilla is bound to a chair, with tape on her mouth, not able to move and do any harm. Which begs the question: Who kidnapped Natal...
19.Advanced Interrogation Techniques
8.002-10-20145mLaura, Danny, LaFontaine and Perry are still scratching their heads and try to figure out how to get more information out of Carmilla when Perry inadvertently gives Laura a brillia...
20.Sock Puppets and European History
7.007-10-20145mCarmilla tells Laura her story of becoming and "living" as a vampire, with Laura suddenly deciding to pep it up by playing along with sock puppets. Which, at first, works delightfu...
21.Strategic Planning
8.009-10-20145mIn the light of what she revealed to Laura about her "life" and her "mother", The Dean, Laura and the gang go back and forth on what to do about Carmilla and keeping her hostage? I...
22.Afterbite
7.014-10-20145mA panicking Laura tries to talk herself down after being bitten by Carmilla, just seconds after Will ran off, just seconds after Carmilla punched him in the face, and just seconds...
23.We Need To Talk About Carmilla
7.016-10-20145mThe next day, and after most likely failing her midterm lit test, Laura gets an explanation of how Carmilla's charm works - the bracelet charm, that is. Shortly after, LaFontaine a...
24.Breaking Up (With An Amazon) Is Hard To Do
7.021-10-20145mWhen Danny enters the room, she immediately gets into a fight with Carmilla to save and protect Laura - which doesn't end very well for her. Something that Laura can't stand is whe...
25.Basic Parasitology
7.023-10-20145mGiant Mushrooms! Apparently, something went definitely wrong in a lab on campus, and in the aftermath of all that crazyness, Laura, LaFontaine and Perry have to deal with what the...
26.The Standard Issue
8.028-10-20145mFreaked out about all the crazyness and wanting to get some normalcy, Perry gets into an argument with LaFontaine and leaves the room. At night, Laura wakes from a scary dream, in...
27.Required Reading
7.030-10-20145mLaura, LaFontaine and Carmilla return from the library with an old Sumerian book and a new very old friend, J-P Armitage, a junior records clerk from 1874 whose consciousness was s...
28.Blame Enough For All
8.004-11-20145mPerry is devastated and blames herself for LaFontaine taken hostage by some evil vampire minions. Carmilla reassures Laura that nothing that happened is her fault - and they figure...
29.PTSD & Brownies
7.006-11-20145mIn the very early morning, Laura and Carmilla are woken up by Perry who devoured her time to cleaning and making brownies to calm herself down about LaFontaine's disappearance. Whe...
30.Monsters, Lies & Videotapes
8.011-11-20145mDespite LaFontaine remembering nothing, Laura, Carmilla and Perry try to piece together what might have happened and why? Unexpectedly, LaFontaine's phone audio recorded a portion...
31.Of Hearts And Holy Hand Grenades
8.013-11-20145mLaura tries to get an extension on her term paper by asking Danny - but that doesn't end very well. Meanwhile, Carmilla and J-P find out that they have to secure the Blade of Hastu...
32.Mommy Dearest
8.018-11-20145mPossessed by The Dean via an evil necklace, Carmilla's "mother" shows up embodied in Laura, striking to make a deal with her "daughter" about not threatening the cultish sacrifice...
33.Pep Rally
7.020-11-20145mRealizing that she's run out of options and not knowing about the deal between Carmilla and The Dean, Laura decides to appeal to the student body at a school event - and learns tha...
34.Do Not Go Into The Light
8.025-11-20145mLaura's kind of emotional meltdown is stopped when she realizes that they could use LaFontaine's urge to join the party - a.k.a. the ritual - by letting her go and following her in...
35.Heroic Vampire Bull****
8.027-11-20145mSomething very unexpected happened: Laura and the gang won! They won the battle against The Dean and the evil hungry light, saving the 3 missing girls Betty, Natalie and Elsie, as...
36.Life Goes On
8.002-12-20145mAfter the dust of the battle settled, Laura is recording for her journalism project one last time to talk about the aftermath, including the return of her formerly lost roommate Be...
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