This film annoyed me. It basically developed similar themes to those in Interview With a Vampire. The struggle for power within different cultures, races and political groups within vampirekind.
The basic premise is a sound one, how does a subculture of vampires exist and function within contemporary society? What emerges is two conflicting views represented by two sisters who have very different perspectives on how to progress through all eternity living as the undead.
The equation between blood lust and sexual desire are well worn tropes within the vampire genre and the sex in this film kind of makes up for a ponderous script which bumbles along to a flaccid dog end of a conclusion.
There's a bit of blood and gore but generally this film is more Lestat than Salem's Lot. Arty shots and a claustrophobic oppressive atmosphere serves the sexual obsessive and animalism well but ultimately, like the vampires themselves, I was unsatisfied.
The basic premise is a sound one, how does a subculture of vampires exist and function within contemporary society? What emerges is two conflicting views represented by two sisters who have very different perspectives on how to progress through all eternity living as the undead.
The equation between blood lust and sexual desire are well worn tropes within the vampire genre and the sex in this film kind of makes up for a ponderous script which bumbles along to a flaccid dog end of a conclusion.
There's a bit of blood and gore but generally this film is more Lestat than Salem's Lot. Arty shots and a claustrophobic oppressive atmosphere serves the sexual obsessive and animalism well but ultimately, like the vampires themselves, I was unsatisfied.