From 'Interview with the Vampire' to 'Let the Right One In,' a post-'Twilight' wave is cresting. But this time the monster is us
. Before it devolved into a mess of heaving bosoms and mixed metaphors,drew parallels between vampires “mainstreaming,” or living openly alongside humans, thanks to the invention of synthetic blood, and queer people integrating into straight society—complete with radicals who’d rather get staked than conform.
Yet even as mortal heroines embraced their bloodsucker paramours, storytellers held them at arm’s length. The protagonists they created were almost always human, and brooding vamps likeThe new generation of vampires is anything but cryptic. Just as Reginald vents anxieties to his maker , the Staten Island roommates in FX’s hilarious—a vanguard of the vampire comeback, after four seasons—eagerly unload petty grievances on a documentary crew.
Framed as a more honest follow-up to vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac’s confession to a naive young reporter in Rice’s novel and thecasts Eric Bogosian as the same journalist half a century later. Rather than reverting to innuendo, the show makes plain—and explicit—the sexual relationship between Louis and his male maker, Lestat . Because Louis is also Black, in 1910s New Orleans, becoming immortal makes him a triply misunderstood outsider.
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