Brendan Steere’s Outback Dracula is a spiritual sequel to The VelociPastor

Last Updated on July 30, 2021

Writer/director Brendan Steere's $35,000 feature film THE VELOCIPASTOR was originally inspired by an autocorrect mistake, and that mistake has opened the door to Steere making a trilogy of horror comedies "in the same disconnected vein as Edgar Wright's Cornetto Trilogy". We heard back in March that a sequel to THE VELOCIPASTOR was in the works, but it turns out that the follow-up is not called THE VELOCIPASTOR 2 like we expected. This one won't even have a priest turning into a dinosaur. What Steere is working on is a "spiritual sequel" to THE VELOCIPASTOR that's called OUTBACK DRACULA.

OUTBACK DRACULA will be set in 

1880s Australia, where a psychic, lesbian schoolteacher teams up with the world's greatest adventurer to find her missing girlfriend and to defeat Dracula and his Golden Army of the Undead. 

Steere has written the screenplay with Jesse Gouldsbury, and the duo are also producing the film together. This one will have a substantially larger budget than THE VELOCIPASTOR had, somewhere in the $1.5 to 2 million range.

THE VELOCIPASTOR cast members Gregory James Cohan, Alyssa Kempinski, and Fernando Pacheco de Castro are returning for OUTBACK DRACULA, and will be co-starring with an armadillo named Fiasco.

Steere wouldn't tell The Hollywood Reporter what the third film in the trilogy will be, but did confirm that it will have a budget on the same level as OUTBACK DRACULA's.

What will part three be about? Oh, don’t worry — we already have a script, but first thing’s first: we gotta make an Australian LGBTQ+ vampire movie called Outback Dracula."

Steere is hoping to start filming OUTBACK DRACULA in Australia in late 2020 or early 2021.

In case you missed THE VELOCIPASTOR, it told the following story: 

After a devastating family tragedy, a priest travels to China to find deeper spirituality but instead is endowed with an ancient ability that allows him to turn into a dinosaur. At first, he is horrified by his newfound superpower, but a local prostitute convinces him to use his newfound gift to fight evil – and ninjas.

A clip from the film is embedded above.