Five years after the events of Carmilla season three, when Laura, Carmilla and their friends saved the world from apocalypse, Laura has got used to worrying about more mundane things, like how she seems to be stuck in a dead end job in local news broadcasting. But then she starts having strange dreams about Carm being a vampire again, and it seems the gang has to get back together one more time.
The longer any media work continues, the more likely it is to make a misstep. Seasons two and three of Carmilla made a few of them, mostly in over-complicating their plot-lines and trying to jam too much in, but they overall delivered a decent narrative arc and I finished the show feeling pretty content with it, overall.
This "sequel movie", alas, crashes and burns pretty badly on almost every front. I deeply dislike the ending, for a start. Also, the writers seem to have struggled with the move away from a strictly vlog format. There's a strong tendency toward exposition-heavy dialogue that feels more directed at the audience than the other casts members, for instance, and the attempts at humorous byplay often feel rather forced. And the less said about the embarrassingly awkward love scene, the better.
From a purely technical perspective there are serious issues with the volume of the audio, which varied up and down quite sharply at times. It's not the worst audio I've ever experienced in a film, but only because I've seen Invasion of the Pod People, and it's certainly not of a standard that I would consider acceptable.
My advice is to let Carmilla go at the end of season three, and skip this entirely.
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