The Bloodlust

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24 May 2019: Wild Nights with Emily

It’s certainly an interesting story, & I liked the setup of how it was told, but the tone was all over the place. Some of the comedic moments felt a little glib & weird next to scenes that were meant to have emotional weight. Showing captions of the poems on screen didn’t really work for me, nor did the fourth wall breaking. Molly Shannon was wonderful as usual, but the younger versions of Emily & her sister in law weren’t very good at all. Unfortunately, the thing as a whole just didn’t work.