We Regret Nothing

The story

The We Regret Nothing documentary is about the activities of the Hammet cult in 2011. In-depth details on the chronology of events are available here.

Production title: “We Regret Nothing”

Writer/Director/Producer: Hugo Lunny

Genre: Mockumentary

Format: Feature film

Synopsis: Edgar Hammet was, by every account from the people who knew him before, an unremarkable child. Bookish, isolated, indulged by parents who mistook his obsessions for harmless hobbies. What none of them clocked in time was how deep those obsessions ran, starting with vampire folklore and growing into a broader conviction that death itself was negotiable. By the time Hammet reached adulthood, he had stopped treating the mythology as fiction. He believed, with total conviction, that he was already what the stories described, and that immortality wasn’t a metaphor he could offer the right kind of follower.

He found his first true believer in a casual partner who brought her circle of friends into his orbit, and from there the group grew the way these things tend to: slowly, then all at once. What began as willing volunteers donating blood for what they understood to be a ritual, a performance, a shared belief system, escalated into something the participants themselves couldn’t have named at the start. Blood gave way to bodies. Belief gave way to obedience. By 2011, what had started as a handful of disaffected twentysomethings playing at immortality had become something closer to a body count.

“We Regret Nothing” is built from the surviving interviews: cult members who got out, investigators who pieced together what happened after the fact, and the unsettling found footage Hammet’s inner circle left behind. It doesn’t try to explain Hammet so much as sit with the discomfort of how ordinary his beginnings were.

Logline: A deranged loner convinces himself he’s a real vampire, creating a cult of murderers that consume human blood.

Tagline: Vampires don’t exist… Humans do.

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“We Regret Nothing” is also available in a French version under “Nous Ne Regrettons Rien” and in Spanish under “No Lamentamos Nada.”

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