Philip French 

Midnight Son – review

This scary addition to the current crop of vampire movies is grown-up and oddly moving, writes Philip French
  
  

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Maya Parish and Zak Kilberg in vampire drama Midnight Son: 'an antidote to the infantilisation of vampire movies'. Photograph: PR

There is no cure for the kiss of a vampire. But this picture about a young man in Los Angeles who gradually comes to recognise that he may be a vampire could be prescribed as an antidote to the current domestication and infantilisation of vampire movies. It's a frightening story, plausibly developed within a relatively brief running time, and the central love between the male protagonist increasingly addicted to blood and a girl addicted to cocaine is oddly  moving.

 

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