Starring: Mia Wasikowska, Matthew Goode, and Nicole Kidman
The title inspires thoughts about vampires, but I think the movie is really concerned with the other meaning of the word.
A hauntingly beautifully shot movie directed by cult fave Park in his first English-language film, and written by Wentworth Miller (star of Prison Break), it is a tale about predators and bloodline.
India Stoker (Wasikowska) loses her father on her eighteenth birthday, and then meets Uncle Charlie (Goode), an uncle she never knew she had, at her father's funeral. Thus, begins the hunt--but just who is the hunter/hunted?
Strong, assured acting all around with small, powerful scenes with Jacki Weaver and Dermot Mulroney; moody soundtrack supplied by same musical director of Black Swan, along with a great deal owed to Hitchcock, this movie will prey on your mind many days after the reverse credits roll.
Food: when hunting one doesn't eat, but as there is so much bird imagery in the film, deviled eggs would be a good suggestion
Drink: glass of 1994 red wine
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