WES + KYRA
2024 · 20m · USA
Directed by Kevin V. Doan
Genres: drama, horror, romance
Tones: contemplative, dark, tender, tense
A vampire couple in New York City rent a room for three days to drown out their addiction, confront the toxicity of their relationship, and grapple with death circling them on all sides.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Vampire couple in NYC as addiction-and-toxic-love metaphor — that metaphor is so well-trod it's basically a Brooklyn loft party. Twenty minutes of it, probably stylish, almost certainly hollow. Skeptical.
Vampirism as sustained metaphor for addiction and toxic love — refusing to explain its own horror elements — is the right Cronenberg-school discipline. Twenty minutes; ambitious within its lineage.
20 minutes, NYC vampire couple as addiction-and-toxic-love metaphor — the page note that horror elements 'never explain themselves, they just bleed into the relationship dynamics' is the right approach to make this not feel didactic. Filmshortage Featured short; runtime suggests sustained tonal work.