Clickonline writes: "Byzantium won’t grab the kind of attention afforded to Jordan’s Interview with a Vampire but it’s a solid return to form for the director, visually interesting and with more thematic depth than the supernatural offerings we’ve become used to."
- ComingSoon.net
Neil Jordan's underrated 2012 horror film Byzantium is one of the greatest vampire films ever made, with stunning performances and a rich, feminist subtext.
With a certain big budget franchise finally over and Hollywood fads seeming to move on to zombies, vampires are apparently being left undisturbed in their resting places for lovers of the original folklore to unearth. And that is what Neil Jordan and Moira Buffini thankfully set out to do with this weekend’s limited release, Byzantium, a mosaic of blood and emotion brought to life by haunting turns from Saoirse Ronan and Gemma Arterton.
The Irish filmmaker chats with Den of Geek about his new vampire film, Byzantium, as well as the cancellation of The Borgias. He also reveals who from Interview with the Vampire he wanted to see drawing blood again.
