The Familiar is a 2009 comedy horror short film starring Torrance Coombs, Paul Hubbard and Rachel Sehl.
Sam (Torrance Coombs) has always been obsessed with vampires from the time he was a child watching them on children's programs to when he was a college student reading horror novels on the side.
On Sam's 21st birthday, a mysterious gentleman offers him a peculiar career choice: become an assistant to a real-life Vampire.
Intrigued and enthusiastic, Sam takes the job and meets Simon Bolivar (Paul Hubbard), a 400-year-old Vampire.
Kody Zimmermann came up with the idea reading Dracula while working as an actor's assistant: "I felt like...the vampire was a metaphor for the boss from hell.