Director: Ariane Louise-Seize
Year: 2024
Country: Canada
Alternate Titles: Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant
Genre: Vampire
Plot:
Determined not to kill to survive, a female vampire trying to find an alternative to killing people to drink their blood to survive meets a suicidal person at a retreat and gets into a consensual relationship with each other so that they can both survive by using each other.
Review:
There’s not much for this one in terms of being a genre effort. The main focus here is a romantic relationship comedy between the two that tends to play more with the quirkiness of the dynamic between each other and is based on a far more overwhelming concept that uses an indie romantic comedy to hang everything off of. The idea of her being a vampire that doesn’t want to feed and hasn’t developed fangs yet acts as more of a touch of comedy here than actually inspiring fear so its intent is more on the dynamics at play rather than trying to make her seem like a ravenous bloodthirsty beast, and while this character change can work rather nicely for some others looking for the more straightforward and traditional fare is going to be disappointed with what’s going on.
However, regardless of the treatment of the vampire ends up here, the end result is undone by the absolutely glacial tempo here that doesn’t offer up a lot of action here. The interactions here come at the expense of more familiar scenes of the vampires hunting their prey which is instead shown off-camera as if the idea here isn’t with that being the main point. Instead, the interactions take far too long to play out trying to maximize the idea of them being way too awkward with each other mixing the coming-of-age drama the idea is poised to represent. As it’s all about their series of hurdles trying to find a way to coexist together and not about being a vicious bloodthirsty killer, this takes so long to get going it might put off more straightforward genre fans with the way it approaches the material.
Overview: **.5/5
More of a relationship/coming-of-age drama than an outright horror film, this one is a hard sell where what works for it might be unappealing for most genre fans to handle how it takes the material present. It’s worth a shot if you’re intrigued or curious about it but viewers expecting or wanting a more straightforward bloodthirsty vampire effort should heed extreme caution if not outright ignore it.
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