Friday 11 September 2020

We Are The Night (2010)



Three women murder the passengers and crew of a small jet, then merrily leap out of the plane before it crashes.

The next day, after narrowly avoiding arrest by a handsome young detective, pickpocket Lena stumbles across a well-hidden nightclub filled with glamorous people.  Her intent is to locate a mark or two for her light-fingered skills.  What she finds instead is compelling blonde woman who doesn't cast a reflection in the mirror and leaves rather more than a hickey on Lena's neck.

Yep, what we have here is a coterie of three vampires, whose leader believes Lena to be "the one" who can replace the woman who turned her, whom she lost some two hundred years ago.  Lena, for her part, is attracted by the benefits of being a vampire: eternal youth, the ability to enjoy sex, drink and drugs without any risk of complications, being able to walk on walls, all that stuff.  She's rather more conflicted about the trio's casual attitude toward killing people, and not entirely on board with the invitation to sample the wonders of lesbian love, either.  That police detective was very handsome, after all.

Despite the presence of vampires, We Are The Night is not really a horror film.  It never tries to scare the audience at all, instead reveling in the self-indulgence and violence of their undead powers.  It feels rather more in the vein (heh) of say Heathers than Nosferatu, only instead of blowing up high schools the end game is vampire on vampire smackdown.

If you want a vampire-themed "temptations of evil" kind of story and don't mind that there's some rather unfortunate heteronormative subtext underlying it all, We Are The Night might offer some diversion.  But I didn't think it had all that much interesting to say, personally.

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