In 1950s rural Idaho, a young boy watches helplessly as his friends and brother fall under the spell of a mysterious widow living up the road and becomes convinced that she is a vampire.
Cinematography
Wheat fields lit like Caravaggio paintings of hell.
Direction
Ridley's debut: confidence of a seasoned nightmare architect.
Acting
Lindsay Duncan's widow—seductive, tragic, unknowable.
Director
Philip Ridley
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ridley cited 1950s nuclear testing in Nevada as the hidden villain; the film's 'monster' is literally fallout.
Viggo Mortensen took this role before his big break, and still considers it among his most personally significant work.
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