Prior to seeing this movie I thought I had my fill of vampire movies. I was wrong. Mainly because it wasn't really a movie about vampires. Or more specifically the vampire character could have been any type of character.
The movie was really about two isolated children, one the age of twelve, one who has been "twelve for a very long time." They develop a close relationship from their loneliness.
The vampire's isolation is obvious - she can't let anybody know who and what she is. The boy's isolation from being the small kid bullied in school.
The parts that were old hat for vampire movies is the police are always searching for a serial killer in the area. And this becomes a problem where you're supposed to root for the characters. How do you sympathize with a murderer even if their lonely and isolated?
It would be easier to sympathize with a vampire that does everything it can to avoid killing people and instead kills rats or anything else while helping the boy find strength to stand up for himself.
But other than that the movie was good, definitely fun to see in the theater.
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