Exhilaratingly Slow
On A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, dir. Ana Lily Amirpour, 2014; Caddo Lake, dir. Celine Held and Logan George, 2024; Fallen, dir. Gregory Hoblit, 1998.
Fantasies, Dreams, & Legends
On The Blood Spattered Bride, dir. Vicente Aranda, 1972; Hokum, dir. Damian McCarthy, 2026; and Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil, by V. E. Schwab, 2025.
Gothic Beach
On Byzantium, dir. Neil Jordan, 2012; Exit 8, dir. Genki Kawamura, 2025; and Crossroads Issue 1: The Long Decade, ed. Candice Bailey and Gavin Lees, 2026.
Vampire Autopilot
Thinking about Fright Night, dir. Tom Holland, 1985; Good Boy, dir. Ben Leonberg, 2025; and Arrebato, dir. Ivan Zulueta, 1979.
Rapture | Arrebato
Escaping to cinema, surrendering entirely.
I linked an article about Arrebato in my second newsletter, impulse-bought the Blu-ray,