Day 3 in 31 Days of Vampire Movies takes us in yet another direction, away from the Classic and the Classic Trash of Dracula and Vampire Cop. With no further ado, I give you Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive.
This movie explores the more esoteric sides of being a vampire. Namely, how to deal with immortality itself, and what that means for relationships both familial and between lovers. It shows what happens between two people over the course eons by focusing on a scant few days in the vastness of their existences. It’s about passions in all their manifestations, and just what it means to be human. Only Lovers Left Alive is a thoughtful movie with engaging vampires who tread alongside familiar tropes without falling into them. It’s not a vampire movie of scares or gore or grand sweeping romantic declarations, but its smallness is what makes it so powerful. Definitely give this one a shot if you want your moody vampires to come with a side of introspection and hopefulness in the face of the vast universe of time.