We, The Infected

Vampire autobahn, that's awesome! Since the movie makers perhaps pay less attention to detail than we do, maybe we can also take a bit of artistic license and pretend Los Alamos has a bustling Amtrak station.

An awe-inspiring list! Thanks for putting it together. My list was more restrictive because I was after those moments when she "felt" alone, meaning her guard was down or she was just being herself. That's why, for example, I did not include when the detective came to her door. Certainly she is alon...

Since the level of intelligence and education in this forum is generally much higher, much further-reaching, much deeper and much better informed by what I'll term very simply "social graces", people who are impacted by this public warning should already know who they are, and what will probably ha...

This article does not discuss hatred of remakes because they are lousy movies, but rather hatred of remakes because they are remakes. Most remakes are mediocre at best, of course, because all movies are mediocre at best. Some viewers, however, exhibit a priori hatred of all remakes, regardless of wh...

To return to the topic of the original post, one possibility is that Abby has some backstory that makes getting naked especially meaningful to her. In 1887 Abby's friend Constance tries (and fails, as usual) to get Abby to take off her clothes: Abby received a lot of strange looks as she carried Con...

One thing I like about LMI is how little dialogue there is. No excruciating exposition (contra Twilight). Rather LMI takes advantage of film's ability to show instead of tell. The movie shows Abby's non-verbal communication, then lets the viewer reach his own conclusions about her. This makes the mo...

The use of deleted scenes in interpreting a movie has intrigued me since I first watched LMI. (For example, the deleted Be Me a Little scene establishes Abby's gender as female.) But I'm also intrigued by the relationship between trailers and deleted scenes. If a deleted scene is in the trailer, doe...

Owen hugs Abby after she gets sick outside the arcade. It was such a perfect response - and certainly something I never would have had the courage to do at age 12. And he's ok with Abby not hugging him back. She's so needy all she can do is receive, without giving anything in return at that moment. ...

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David Blue knows so much about the vampire genre. His categories of different types of vampires, combined with the various books, movies, and tv shows in which those vampires occur, are invaluable.

It's the tone of the movie that rules out banked blood. If such a solution is possible, the entire film becomes farce. LMI's power flows flows from its core unspoken presupposition: for Abby, there is no other way. Thanks for mentioning the other changes in her appearance (face, eyes, etc.). I forgo...