In the post-Twilight era of the 2010s, it was difficult to know whether vampires could

still be taken seriously as horror movie monsters. But, similarly, to filmmakers like Abel Farara

and Larry Fessenden in the 90s, indie and art house directors continued making artistic,

genre-defying vampire films using the classic tropes and archetypes. In 2013, acclaimed indie

director Jim Jarmusch made an offbeat, hypnotic and stylish film about the mundanity of life as an

aging vampire. One year later, a British-born American director Anna Lily Amirpaw made her feature

directorial debut with what she described as the first-ever Iranian vampire spaghetti western.

Both these films garnered huge critical acclaim and helped usher horror into its new golden

era. Join me as we continue exploring the evolution of the vampire and we discuss

only lovers left alive and a girl walks home alone at night.

Welcome back to the evolution of horror. My name is Mike Muncer and as ever, I am your host.

If you're tuning in for the first time, then welcome. In this podcast, we explore and dissect

the history and the evolution of the horror genre by looking at a particular sub-jummer as one

series at a time. We are currently in the middle of our eighth series exploring the evolution of

the vampire and this is part 23. As we reach the end of our series, we're talking about a few

brilliant vampire movies from the last 10 years and this week, as that intro suggested,

we're going to be discussing only lovers left alive from 2013 and a girl walks home alone at night

from 2014. Both of these discussions will be spoilerific. Please give them both a watch. They are

well worth it before listening to our discussion. Later on in the episode, I'll be joined by

Mahar Al-Badrari to discuss a girl walks home alone at night. But first of all, let's get stuck

into only lovers left alive. Joining me to discuss this brilliant movie is a long time friend of

the pod and very good friend of mine. He was lost here in our mind and body series discussing

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