I must say that this is another surprise, a gothic horror film much better than expected, with well done character development even if it is rather slow at times. But it's disturbing when it needs to be, although mega cat lovers should skip it for the very gory first scene. Another involving a homeless man is gruesome as well, while an elder library patron climbing around on all fours chasing a mouse just looks silly. Later on, the vampire hits on a young gay man, but it's not a lengthy encounter.
A casket with a view isn't the home for vampire Julian Sands, the most philosophical blood drinker since Barnabas Collins. He is living a lonely, depressing existence mourning a lost love, and finds her apparent reincarnation in Suzanna Hamilton, a new staff member at the library he hangs out in. Along comes the Alan Rickman like Kenneth Cranham as a vampire hunter who sets out to warn Hamilton about Sands. He's much better in this than in his other gothic thriller, "Warlock", a 1989 horror film I ranked as a bomb.
As a fan of British character actors, I was delighted to discover Marian Diamond as the head librarian, a fascinating supporting part. The film has great visuals and a romantic structure, tender and poignant at times, and even heartbreaking in showing a doomed demon consumed by love. Not a fan of the delicacy that Cranham orders for Hamilton at a fine restaurant though that deserved a real beheading.
A casket with a view isn't the home for vampire Julian Sands, the most philosophical blood drinker since Barnabas Collins. He is living a lonely, depressing existence mourning a lost love, and finds her apparent reincarnation in Suzanna Hamilton, a new staff member at the library he hangs out in. Along comes the Alan Rickman like Kenneth Cranham as a vampire hunter who sets out to warn Hamilton about Sands. He's much better in this than in his other gothic thriller, "Warlock", a 1989 horror film I ranked as a bomb.
As a fan of British character actors, I was delighted to discover Marian Diamond as the head librarian, a fascinating supporting part. The film has great visuals and a romantic structure, tender and poignant at times, and even heartbreaking in showing a doomed demon consumed by love. Not a fan of the delicacy that Cranham orders for Hamilton at a fine restaurant though that deserved a real beheading.