January 28, 2014Byzantium was a pretty cool vampire film. Directed by Neil Jordan (Interview With A Vampire), this strange take on the undead blood-suckers was quite unique. Two girls (Saoirse Ronan and Gemma Arterton) are vampires and try to make a living as best they can with what little they have. Ronan typically kills mercifully, choosing people who are elderly or ill and already close enough to death that they often go willingly. Arterton is more sporatic and violent about her method of killing. It turns out Arterton is Ronan's mother, who turned her into a vampire to be closer to her and able to protect her. It also turns out that there is some kind of order of vampires with a code that says only men can be vampires, so they're always being hunted by the angry boy vampires. That part was kind of lame, but whatever. The way they turned into vampires was pretty cool, too. Seated at the base of a waterfall was some kind of hybrid mix of the cave young Bruce Wayne fell into in Batman Begins and the teleporter from The Fly. They hopped into that thing and suddenly their clone (or some kind of weird reflection of their life) showed up and drained their blood, and they were resurrected as a vampire. I watched this pretty late at night, so if I got that wrong, and they explained it better in the movie, I apologize. I did enjoy it though. It also had the weird guy with the long red hair from Antiviral.
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