Good eeeeeeeevening! Welcome to our latest series: “I Vant to Vatch Your Feelm”, a series devoted to das Vampir, no, dammit, the Vampyre, no, that can’t be right . . . VAMPIRES. Got it? That’s the spelling and that’s what we’re calling them. Vampires appear in many, many cultures in many different forms and in NONE of the cultures that matter do they sparkle. Let’s make that clear right now, ok? No sparkling from anything even vaguely resembling one of the nosferatu. Sure, most vampire movies deal with the Big D (no, not Dunkin. Why would you even think that?) but there are quite a few movies where no one mentions Captain Opera Cloak, or if they do, it’s in an . . . unusual manner. We’re focusing on the more off-beat, maybe slightly non-standard vampire movies and we’re starting off with an entry from that well-known horror film director . . . Jim Jarmusch? Hah? Ok, that’s different. “Only Lovers Left Alive” is indeed a vampire movie, despite the fact that the “V” word is never used once. Check out Tilda Swinton as she once again shows she can do anything, and Tom Hiddleston who . . . made me ask myself some deeply personal, searching questions . . . cut that out, you damn sexy Limey! Give a listen and see what’s got us all leather pants, I mean, interested!
Poll question: who’s the coolest vampire? Dracula? (and which one?) Lestat? Celine from “Underworld”? Vampire Bill? Comment or call hotline at 617-398-7266
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I really liked this movie, though I can’t say any of the problems Mike in particular talked about aren’t legit. I saw all his films up to Dead man, I might have to see Ghost Dog now, and the pace is this was certainly spry compared to “Stanger then Paradise”.
Coolest vampire? Catherine Deneuve and David Bowie in “The Hunger” win all the prizes. Particularly Catherine Deneuve. I won’t go too much into it in case it’s on your list because I have a lot to say about it! There is a scene where a detective looks at a bust of woman in her house and he says, “It looks like you” and she just calmly said, “It’s 2000 years old” with no other explanation. Swoon.
I hope you consider the “Voudourlak”. It’s free on Tubi with English subtitles. We loved it here but we also read the original story it’s based on. We watched a Boris Karloff film, a trilogy film, and he was a vampire of sorts in the last part and we thought it seemed familiar but didn’t know why. I recently learned that the section was called “Vourdulak” and it all made sense. I think you guys will appreciate another fact I just learned. George Romero filmed several episodes of “Mister Rogers Neighbourhood”!