Plot Synopsis

Created, directed and written by Warwick Thornton, FIREBITE is an eight-episode series that takes a new spin on the vampire genre, following two Indigenous Australian hunters -- Tyson and Shanika -- on their quest to battle the last colony of vampires in the middle of the South Australian desert. The series is set in a remote desert mining town, a hive for the last vampire stronghold shipped from Britain to Australia in 1788 by the colonial superpower to eradicate the Indigenous populations. Sheltering from the sun in the underground mines and tunnels that surround the town until the present day, the colony's numbers and hunger is growing. War is coming. Tyson and Shanika stand vanguard to the war. But what hope does an expertly reckless man full of bravado and a 17-year-old orphan possibly have to defeat these vicious blood-thirsty parasites, when legions of warriors before them have failed? AMC+ released the first episode of FIREBITE on Thursday, December 16, 2021, with a new installment debuting each Thursday through February 3.