I think this take on the suburban vampire is a real find - it has that classic cult movie feel that horror fans love from some of the best-remembered 80s 'fun' horrors (Fright Night, Lost Boys) but with a cool domestic strife theme that is pretty universal and runs through the whole piece. It's nicely styled throughout, the two leads are great, and it's refreshing to see an older couple at the centre of a vampire movie (usually the domain of teen angst and the very young). And it subverts quite a few of the vampire tropes enough to offer a fresh spin.
So this is kind of Marriage Story with vampires and all held together by the charm of Crampton and Fessenden - the main reason it has legs, beyond most forgettable horrors released these days. There's some amusingly spewing gore, as the genre dictates, but it's not beyond the pale offensively, and I think the character work opens this up to a broader audience than much of the current horror fare.
So this is kind of Marriage Story with vampires and all held together by the charm of Crampton and Fessenden - the main reason it has legs, beyond most forgettable horrors released these days. There's some amusingly spewing gore, as the genre dictates, but it's not beyond the pale offensively, and I think the character work opens this up to a broader audience than much of the current horror fare.