Directed by Shimako Sato
Condemned to life without end, and to an undying passion for a lost love he can never find, a vampire stalks a beautiful young woman.
Вампирска история, 吸血鬼传说, Diario de un vampiro, Paixão Imortal - História de um Vampiro., Historia de un vampiro, Història d’un vampir, Sonsuzluğun Efendisi, Легенда о вампире, 吸血鬼傳説
UK Source: IMDB (London) 
PortugalM/16 Portugal UK 
plot, acting, characters, dialogue, themes: 3/10
vibes: 11/10
bonus points for having a variation of that scene from what we do in the shadows where he accidentally bites the artery wrong and has to drink the blood like a water fountain except completely serious
Here's a tale for you: Vampires are my least favorite monsters because they're fucking sappy little lovesick narcissistic ghouls afraid of wrinkles and death. Poor thirsty babies sleeping in their silk cushion lined coffins while they dream about finding a replacement for their long lost lover, boooo-hooooo. I don't want to kill vampires, I want to make them human again and put them in a nursing home where they're neglected and forced to lay in their own shit for hours and in their final moments I want to look directly into their terrified eyes as the once immortal life leaves their body, at their exact moment of death a tear forms in my eye, a smile on my lips.
Here's…
the man’s hairline was not immortal i’ll tell you what
Japanuary 2025—Directed by Women
Derivative straight-to-VHS skeleton of The Hunger kindred, high-strung on that good ol’ succulent lo-fi atmosphere, but lacking the necessary amount of fuel to prevent it from running on fumes rather early into its duration. Still, the mood is tactile, and the 90s, candelabra’d concoction of Julian Sands juggling sultry and somber expressions between a library and underground boiler-room domain à la Krueger strikes a certain chord of unusual vampirism variety that can’t be denied.
A tall, blonde, scholarly vampire who only wears black and white and hangs out in a library all day... is this movie a glimpse into my future
'Tale of a Vampire' is a charmingly emotional tale about love and life after death. While falling victim to many of the typical BBC video clichés, it captures a certain style that I think works in its favour.
There is great talent on display here and they go some interesting places with Vampire mythology. Definitely worth a look!
Julian Sands Plays A Creep is an important sub-genre to me
RIP Julian Sands
This was lugubrious.
There's sooo many endless scenes of Sands (who's the titular vampire) just wandering around at night, and then there's a no of scenes of the new librarian whom Sands has a big ol' crush on (cause she resembles his former bride in another life)--there's a no of scenes of her just wandering around the library where they both work. The big climax of this movie involves her wandering around a dark building for like three or four minutes straight before she bumps into someone and we actually get a climax. Yeah this was bad. I'm sorry Lou!!!!
The plot of this has the female librarian eventually discovering that her colleague is a vampire when…
Lol @ when Edgar was like "how I've longed to see your face like this, Alex" after killing Alex's gf but Edgar was standing behind him so he couldn't have seen his face plus Julian Sands was like....... not emoting at all
This is a first time watch for me of a British based modern day vampire romance that seems to have been largely forgotten since its release 21 years ago. I was turned onto it by the author Kim Newman whose annotations in his novel Anno Dracula: The Bloody Red Baron reveals he's not the first person to depict Edgar Allen Poe as one of the undead, citing this film, in which Poe is played by Kenneth Cranham, as an example and inspiration.
Well on the whole the aesthetic, ideas and performances of this film would easily gain a 3 and a half or even 4 out of 5 star review. However the construction really makes it hard to discuss it…
Rewatched this for the first time in over 20 years. I still want to live in this slow-moving London of muffled sounds and thick atmosphere, where a soft-spoken, well-read vampire in a long black coat hangs out in a library, pining for his long-lost love, and where candlelit crypts come with enticingly large beds.
A lot of this is dull and kind of derivative (skulking around alleyways, smoke machines candelabras, doppelganger obsession), but I did enjoy: Julian Sands' delicate, off-kilter intensity; the viscous stickiness of the blood; how the film leans into monstrousness of Alex's actions, esp with daughter/lover Virginia; the gross, the horny, the necrophilic; the wild 'good girl' blood snowballing siring scene; Kenneth Cranham's all-black monster hunter fit.
