The Vourdalak (2024)
Directed by Adrien Beau
Written by Adrien Beau, Hadien Bouvier, Aleksei Tolstoy
Starring Kacey Mottet Klein, Ariane Labed, Gregoire Colin
Release Date June 27th, 2024
Published June 11th, 2024
In our very American style of romanticizing things that should not be romantic, we've seemingly lost the notion that vampires are grotesque, horrible creations intended to communicate the ways wealthy elites suck the proletariat dry. Vampires are a symbol of the rich and powerful and how they have risen to power for centuries by sucking the life blood out of the people they supposedly lead and care for.
The French understand this far better than us Americans do. They've also proven to be far better at revolution that we are. After all, the guillotine and the damning phrase 'Let them eat cake' are French creations that symbolize the working class taking vengeance upon the ruling class in no uncertain terms. It makes sense then that a French filmmaker is the one to show us the utter grotesquerie of both the ruling class and the vampire at once.
Find my full length review at Horror.Media, linked here.
