2021 · horror · thriller · vampire
Black as Night
Directed by Maritte Lee Go1h 27m2021
A teenage girl with self-esteem issues finds confidence in the most unlikely way, by spending her summer battling vampires that prey on New Orleans' disenfranchised with the help of her best friend, the boy she's always pined for, and a peculiar rich girl.
Our read: Black as Night (2021) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive horror · thriller · vampire entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, measured horror / thriller, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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