Michael OShea’s debut chomps countless other vampire films. Unfortunately,theyre all superior to this middling, self-conscious effortMilo, or the black teen vampire at the heart of The Transfiguration,likes his tales about the undead told with a fair amount of grit.
The same could no doubt be said for Brooklyn-born writer/director Michael O’Shea, who laces his first feature with references to George A Romero’s Martin, and Kathryn Bigelow’s Near Dark,Tomas Alfredsons Let The factual One In, and most boldly, and FW Murnaus Nosferatu. Unfortunately for O’Shea,he does his film no favours by biting these genre classics. Even Twilight - a series Milo (Eric Ruffin) refuses to engage with (“it seems unrealistic”), and one O’Shea probably doesn’t care for - has more going for it. Related: Neruda review - unconventional drama constructs rather than retells Chilean poet's life Related: Cannes day four: Rebecca corridor, or label Rylance and Steven Spielberg – in pictures Continue reading...
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