- Year
- 1978
- Country
- USA
- Runtime
- 95 min
- Director
- George A. Romero
- Updated
- 10 Aug 2026
- Obscurity
- known (29/100)
- Banned in
- UK
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Romero's low-key vampire drama was listed under Section 3 as liable to seizure.
Romero's vampire film. A boy who needs blood, and no fangs, cape or certainty that he is one.
George Romero's favourite of his own films, and his most human. A withdrawn young man believes he is a vampire, decades old, but he has no fangs and uses razor blades and syringes, and the film never resolves whether he is undead or a disturbed boy in the grip of a family delusion. Set in a decaying Pennsylvania steel town.
It is a melancholy, ambiguous character study far removed from the zombie films, and one of Romero's finest works. Tom Savini plays a small role and did the low-key effects.
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