Vampire

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Vampire

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Released Apr 25, 2013

2h 0m

Horror

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An outwardly normal schoolteacher (Kevin Zegers) preys on suicidal women to slake his overwhelming thirst for human blood.

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Robert Abele

Los Angeles Times

The storytelling that veers between amateurishness and the kind of oddball dreams you wake up scratching your head about.

Rated: 2/5

May 23, 2013

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Shelagh Rowan-Legg

That Shelf

While this might sound like the outline of a horror film, director Iwai Shunji's remarkable film Vampire is in truth a quiet, dark, and intense drama, a strange take on the vampire myth, and an oddly compelling love story.

May 14, 2018

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Erik Childress

eFilmCritic.com

Vampire is an agonizing bore, traipsing along on the assumption that just because it is trying to be different, that does not make it special.

Rated: 0.5/4

Feb 3, 2011

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THIS MOVIE HAS VAMPIRES JUST LIKE MY FAVOURITE MOVIE MORBIUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WATCH MORBIUS ITS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MORBIUS FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ITS MORBIN' TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/25/23

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Kudos to the director for trying to tell an "art house" vampire flick. Soft and tender at times, the pacing both helped and hurt. An interesting beginning gave way to wandering and the film didn't find its way again until too late for most. Surprisingly solid performance from Zegers.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/16/23

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First off this is NOT a typical vampire movie, but a strangely hypnotic film regardless. It is a beautifully shot Canadian film, created by a Japanese director and American and Canadian cast. It is also based on some true events in Japan. It is more of an uncomfortable commentary on human blood-thirst and a controversial look at suicidal obsession and isolation from depression.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/26/23

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Missed it at HKIFF years back, have been looking for it for years, & finally. Shunji Iwai's own aesthetic interpretation in Western Cinema. Not as delicate as his work for local Japan market, yet much better than expected upfront already.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/04/23

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This VAMPIRE thing is a total bore. A meaningless indie about suicide, blood freaks. Dialogues are obnoxiously luckluster.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/26/23

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Shunji Iwai was clearly trying to do something different with his take on the vampire and serial killer genres, but the movie really doesn't work, coming off more like a pretentious bore than anything scary or sinister.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

01/25/23

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Synopsis

An outwardly normal schoolteacher (Kevin Zegers) preys on suicidal women to slake his overwhelming thirst for human blood.

Director: Shunji Iwai
Screenwriter: Shunji Iwai
Distributor: Eleven Arts
Production Co: Convergence Entertainment
Rating: R (Language|Some Disturbing Violent Cont.)
Genre: Horror
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Apr 25, 2013, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 20, 2013
Runtime: 2h 0m

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