Valentine’s Day: 15 greatest horror movies to get you through the holiday
By Devin Shea
Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)
There is something just blatantly British about this whole film and it isn’t just the actors. The characters and the style of it all remind me of 80’s punk and goth scenes in London and I am SO there for it.
Twilight kind of ruined the vampire genre for a bit and DEFINITELY ruined the vampire love story genre (A Discovery of Witches is breathing new life into it, though) but Only Lovers Left Alive gives the genre a cool take on two lovers who are just tired of the world and how humans are but are there to live in it forever. Undying love between two undying people seems like a perfect story for a Valentine’s Day horror movie night.
Only Lovers Left Alive was written by Jim Jarmusch and Marion Bessay and directed by Jarmusch. It stars Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton as two vampires, Adam and Eve, who have been lovers for many lifetimes. At the start, they are living in two separate places: one in Detroit, collecting antique musical instruments and the other in Tangier. When Eve talks with Adam and finds that he seems sad, she flies to Detroit to be with him. When Eve’s wild and disruptive sister shows up, the two must navigate their relationship along with how to deal with the bodies.