This post contains spoilers for "Oderbruch (2024)".

I rarely watch trailers for movies and tv series because I absolutely hate spoilers. Trailers give away too much of the plot, they are basically a summary of the whole thing. On top of that, since I try to get as much input as I can in German, it's pretty common that I watch a movie or a tv series without knowing anything about it.

This week, I started watching a miniseries called "Oderbruch", it's about a German small town on the border with Poland, where a pile of human and animal bodies is found on a field. For three episodes, it was a pretty normal investigative show, with the police interviewing people, collecting evidence, trying to identify the victims and so on. The only thing that was a bit odd was that the bodies had almost no blood - but I remembered Dexter and didn't think much of it. "Just another serial killer story", I thought. And then, in the final scene of the third episode, a guy jumps from the second floor from a building to fight another guy, beats him with super rapid and powerful punches and then carries a woman like she was weightless. My first thought was: "are you kidding me? Is this a vampire story?".

The plot then goes full vampire mode, but they don't have growing retractable fangs and normally don't have trouble with the sun, which helped to fool me in to thinking that the characters were normal humans. I haven't finished watching it yet, but I am pretty impressed that they went for this kind of plot twist in what looked like a pretty normal, realistic-ish story. By doing that, they may push away the viewers who wanted a regular police show and not attract the vampire fans.