Vampire Week
Keep bleeding, keep, keep bleeding love.
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Downtown hipsterdom intersects with the supernatural in wry ways.
Shes going through a radical transformation, but from a distance, it just looks like a pretentious phase.
Were all called in for the debt.
Family money from Romania, she admits to a man shes struck up a flirtation with in a bar.
It comes from the suffering and exploitation of the poor the peasants, the workers.
Vampirism looks grubby and desperate in these movies, especially when its used as a window into addiction.
My habit is controlled by my will, before feeding on her himself.
Drug and alcohol dependency may be the most obvious onscreen parallels, but theyre not the only ones.
Its the kind of place that can get too much for even an immortal.
Its not the threat they represent so much as New York itself that seems to do her in.
Too many choices, too many possibilities, she sighs.
