HOW HAVE I NEVER SEEN THIS MASTERPIECE BEFORE?<\/p>\n
It is just so successful<\/em> at doing what it promises. Kathryn Bigelow\u2019s horror classic is dusty, full of gorgeous sunsets and terrific use of light, breathtakingly sleazy, and emotionally effective. You get dirtbag biker-type vampires (\u201cHow old are<\/em> you?\u201d \u201cLet\u2019s just say, I fought for the South\u201d) and a vampire child who\u2019s ridiculously fun, then actually scary, and then immensely sad. My jaw dropped at the brutal fights.<\/p>\n I liked the moral ambiguity of the central character, Adrian Pasdar\u2019s Caleb. There\u2019s an early scene where he exploits a woman\u2019s obvious fear in order to steal a kiss, and I wondered if the movie just didn\u2019t notice or care how frightening and cruel that is. But later we see hints of a real darkness in Caleb\u2019s soul, a glee at violence despite his reluctance to engage in it. Even his final act of the movie (which I didn\u2019t love, but okay) is done against a woman\u2019s will, for her own good. I don\u2019t know if Bigelow intended him to come across as anything other than a hero, but to me, he played as a well-meaning man who has no idea how scary he really is.<\/p>\n Hugely recommended if you enjoy sleaze and \u201980s horror. And I always do!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" HOW HAVE I NEVER SEEN THIS MASTERPIECE BEFORE? It is just so successful at doing what it promises. Kathryn Bigelow\u2019s horror classic is dusty, full of gorgeous sunsets and terrific use of light, breathtakingly sleazy, and emotionally effective. You get dirtbag biker-type vampires (\u201cHow old are you?\u201d \u201cLet\u2019s just say, I fought for the South\u201d) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[119,114,113],"class_list":["post-8407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","tag-horror","tag-the-day-the-world-turned-day-glo","tag-woman-is-the-irony-of-the-community"],"yoast_head":"\n