Twitter Review: Let Me in
Against its Swede forebear, ‘Let Me In’ accumulates minor changes that make it too insistent. Fidelity is a pleasant surprise but not enough
Vampires
Twitter Review: Thirst
It’s messy and too telegraphed, but ‘Thirst’ employs vampirism probingly, is anchored by two great performances, and is disgustingly funny.
Tagged: Chan-wook Park, Horror, Reviews, Thirst, Twitter, Twitter Reviews, Vampires
Twitter Review: Cronos
Stripping the vampire flick of baroque affectations, del Toro’s ‘Cronos’ is simple but rich, concerned with addiction, corruption, and aging
Tagged: Cronos, Guillermo del Toro, Horror, Reviews, Twitter, Twitter Reviews, Vampires
Twitter Review: Let the Right One in
‘Let the Right One in’ – Tonally coy, it expands on Romero’s ‘Martin,’ crosses it with Poe’s ‘William Wilson,’ and haunts retrospectively.
Haiku Squared: Trouble Every Day
I have no problem
choosing films of morbid love
from our Netflix queue.
Sucking Wonderfully
Film Experience Blog is hosting a Vampire Blog-a-Thon just in time for Halloween. I was delighted to see that three bloggers saw fit to write about George A. Romero’s criminally overlooked Martin.
Tagged: Blog-a-thons, George A. Romero, Horror, Links, Martin, Vampires
Vampires and Sacrifice
Werner Herzog uses all the trappings of the story of Count Drac-oooo-lah in Nosferatu the Vampyre but doesn’t approach it as a tale of terror. Instead, he turns Bram Stoker’s basic plot (and F.W. Murnau’s silent classic) into a contemplative study of sacrifice and tragedy.
