An outwardly normal schoolteacher preys on suicidal women to slake his overwhelming thirst for human blood.
Direction
Iwai's dreamy dread makes horror feel like a funeral.
Acting
Zegers plays Simon so normal you'll check your DMs.
Cinematography
Grey-blue misery porn, every frame a sigh.
Director
Shunji Iwai
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Iwai deliberately avoids fangs and capes—Simon's vampirism functions as metaphor for emotional labor and parasitic relationships in capitalist isolation.
Keisha Castle-Hughes was Oscar-nominated for Whale Rider at 13; her casting as Jellyfish deliberately subverts that child-star innocence into something broken.
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