If you like your vampires "sparkling", don't bother watching this.
If you're looking for a blood-spatter fest, don't bother watching this.
This is the most intelligent vampire film I've ever seen.
It's beautifully filmed, with stellar performances by all players.
Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton (she can bite me any time she likes) are great in this.
John Hurt is superb as an old scoundrel.
The soundtrack is one of the best ever.
This film captures the pointless ennui of the curse of immortality.
This is, for me, a movie that captures the essence of it's subject, but the subject isn't vampirism.
It's subject is the repetitious banality of addiction.
This is a personal thing for me. I'm a recovering addicts for over 19 years.
I can watch "Train spotting", "Spun", "Requiem for a dream" or any of the scores of other films that focus on addiction and relate to them a lot.
This film however, just nails it.
I find it almost painfully triggering, even after 19 years of being clean, and yet, I can't help but return to it for a rewatch, time and again.
As my review title says, one of my favourite films, but I'm pretty old, my name is Adam and I like to collect guitars, so I could be a little biased.
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