Terrence Malick meets Robert Eggers in You Won’t Be Alone, a bloody—and bloody good—vampire tale that squeezes quite a few new twists out of fundamentally familiar material. Rapturously beautiful a…
won the 2018 Sundance best short film prize, goes far beyond the normal boundaries of generic blood-sucker yarns to bring historical, ethnic and cultural considerations to a table over-spilling with goodies both familiar and esoteric. At first it’s not at all clear where the film is going with its unappetizing basic ingredients of baby-snatching, blood-sucking and 19th century rural miserablism.
The first indication that leading character is mutating into some other genre of being is that she grows stupendously long and dark fingernails, which she discreetly hides as best she can. One’s patience is tested for some time, as the “witch-mama” surreptitiously staggers around as she tries to adapt to her wayward new talents and appetites, or “woman-madness,” as one peasant terms it.
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