For Night Will Come movie poster

For Night Will Come

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Year: 2023 Runtime: 104 min. Director: Céline Rouzet Country: Belgium, France

Description

For Night Will Come — a reinterpretation of vampire themes. But let’s be honest — it’s hardly an original take on vampirism. Because once again, it’s all women’s fault — how many male vampires have they destroyed already?

The life of a male vampire often starts and ends the same way. Born, married, divorced, became a vampire, fell in love, stake through the heart. Literally and figuratively. Or he manages to escape and hide for a hundred years, only to fall in love with the reincarnation of that same maiden — and so the cycle continues.

This film is no different: a vampire was living his life, minding his own business, and everything was fine (as fine as it can be), until he met a girl and fell in love. And now this threatens to expose his secret — a secret that his entire human family works to protect. They even had to move to a small provincial town.

And really, everything was relatively fine: a seemingly ordinary family, nothing special, except that the mother, who works as a nurse, snuck blood from the hospital for her son so nobody had to be killed.
But if I’m being slightly more serious, For Night Will Come blends the genres of arthouse horror and social horror with a touch of dark romance.

If you enjoy these kinds of non-gothic vampire films, then below this description, in the Vegan Vampire Recommends block, I’ve added several similar films. And maybe, I’ll make a separate collection later.