An outwardly normal schoolteacher preys on suicidal women to slake his overwhelming thirst for human blood.
Directed by Shunji Iwai
suicide
vampire
melancholy
teacher
grim
ambivalent
gloomy
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Cast
Kevin Zegers
Simon
Keisha Castle-Hughes
Jellyfish
Yu Aoi
Mina
Adelaide Clemens
Ladybird
Trevor Morgan
Renfield
Amanda Plummer
Helga
Kristin Kreuk
Maria Lucas
Rachael Leigh Cook
Laura King
Jodi Balfour
Michaela
Ian Brown
Jack Hales
R. Nelson Brown
Nick Williams
Samuel Patrick Chu
Brian
Crew
Shunji Iwai
Director
Shunji Iwai
Writer
Shunji Iwai
Editor
Shunji Iwai
Director of Photography
Shunji Iwai
Producer
Shunji Iwai
Music
Popular Reviews
9 reviews
bunapii
9.0★ · 04/09/26
“if this were a dream, i would never die.”
shunji iwai is my favorite director, but this movie has always been a blindspot for me, because it ranks pretty low on a lot of lists, and a lot of people consider it his worse film. but i ended up really falling in love with this movie. and even though she doesn’t have many scenes, i loved seeing yu aoi in this too!
vampire is iwai’s only feature length film not shot in japan, and it felt like a mix of picnic and hana & alice, both by iwai, and ritual by hideaki anno. it sensitively explores the yearning for connection, from the disconnection of suicide, and queerness of being a “vampire”, grappling with their humanity as a biology teacher, who cares so much about life. all this is paired with a, piano-driven, iwai soundtrack, that reminds me so much of his drifting music in hana & alice.
“if this were a dream, i would never die.”
shunji iwai is my favorite director, but this movie has always been a blindspot for me, because it ranks pretty low on a lot of lists, and a lot of people consider it his worse film. but i ended up really falling in love with this movie. and even though she doesn’t have many scenes, i loved seeing yu aoi in this too!
vampire is iwai’s only feature length film not shot in japan, and it felt like a mix of picnic and hana & alice, both by iwai, and ritual by hideaki anno. it sensitively explores the yearning for connection, from the disconnection of suicide, and queerness of being a “vampire”, grappling with their humanity as a biology teacher, who cares so much about life. all this is paired with a, piano-driven, iwai soundtrack, that reminds me so much of his drifting music in hana & alice.
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Jensen
2.0★ · 05/12/26
What the fuck, no seriously what the fuck?
What the fuck, no seriously what the fuck?
Annalise Noel
4.0★ · 10/20/24
This was odd and slow as fuck, however, I’ve been thinking about this movie a lot. Get me the fuck off tubi
This was odd and slow as fuck, however, I’ve been thinking about this movie a lot. Get me the fuck off tubi
