2008 · comedy · horror · romance
Bitten
Directed by Harvey Glazer1h 29m2008
A lovelorn paramedic rescues a woman left for dead after a deadly assault. When she refuses to go to the hospital, he takes her in, nurses her back to health and soon falls in love with her. Before long the mysterious woman suffers withdrawal symptoms, leaving the paramedic to believe his newfound love is a drug addict. Coming home to find a blood-drained corpse on his floor, he learns she does indeed have an addiction problem but it's not to drugs...
Our read: Bitten (2008) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive comedy · horror · romance entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured comedy / horror, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- cold
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