We the Undead: American Vampires on Screen
by Ryan Silberstein, Managing Editor, Red Herring
American vampires retain an outsider status, but more expressly tied to youthful dissatisfaction or minority/queer identities.
MARLOWE recreates the formula, but not the meaning, of noir
by Tessa Swehla, Staff Writer
Marlowe ultimately falls short of both its intended goal as a period genre homage and its continuation of this legacy character’s story, despite its top-tier cast, writer, and director.
Interview with the Vampire
Directed by Neil Jordan (1994)
by Sandy DeVito
"You followed me here, didn't you?"
"Yeah, I suppose I did. You seem interesting."
Alongside Tim Burton's drippingly gloomy Sleepy Hollow, Interview with the Vampire is, in my opinion, the greatest example of gothic filmmaking from the last thirty years. This is textbook gothica, but in the least boring way imaginable - everything in this movie lends it an unforgettable miasma of dark desire and aching melancholy, that precision of emotional tone that is so essential to this subgenre. Like great gothic films that precede it (Black Sunday, Dragonwyck, Nosferatu), it has hints of deep horror but is far more concerned with the foreboding dread of the eternal questions of existence, most readily, the curse of those who will live forever with their demons.
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