Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
My second Eggars experience after Lighthouse, and I think I liked this one more.
I really liked how vivid so many of the scenes felt despite being filmed in near complete darkness. I thought the use of sound mixing to create tension was executed flawlessly, maybe my favorite part of the movie. All of the performances were superb, particularly Depp and Skarsgård. I also really appreciated how close this movie seemed to hold to the original myth of what vampires…
Nora: Yeah he’s just a childhood friend of mine.
Arthur: OH NO HE’S HOT!
By several objective standards, I don’t think I should have enjoyed this movie as much as I did.
I found the political/religious allegories to be a bit overplayed and cringey. I feel like they could have done more with some of the cool concepts presented instead of wasting time on weird space sex. And for my money, it dragged on a BIT too long for me.
But there was just something about the movie that made me enjoy it for…