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Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person



IMDb Info

Release Year: 2023
Runtime: 1h 30m
Country: Canada
Language: French
Genre Tags: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Plot Summary: A young woman vampire is unable to kill to meet her need for blood, but may have found a solution in a young man with suicidal tendencies.

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phancy.com rating:

phancy.com notes: Super charming rom-com about a vampire teen (68 in vampire years!) who is too sensitive to kill, and a human boy who doesn't want to live. Excellent comedic timing, excellent chemistry, excellent set decorating. This is this romance/coming of age movie teenage me would be all over. And I guess adult me as well. It's just delightful.


Outside Reviews:

Rendy Jones
3 out of 4 stars - rogerebert.com

While Sasha and Paul’s dynamic drives the film’s story, the structure can be imbalanced: developing the star-crossed loners and their worlds takes time. Then it deviates from its focus well into its second act as Sasha and Paul venture to accomplish his dying wishes. Yet even in the story’s shortcomings, “Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person” is a charming, dark, comedic romp for a new generation that is a welcoming new branch to the vampire cinema tree. It’s one of the year’s strongest debuts, bolstered by its compassionate leading heroine while making a blood-soaked calling card for Louis-Seize.


Katie Rife
B - Boy Meets Girl, Girl Eats Boy in Quebecois Comedy

The tongue-in-cheek combination of humdrum setting and elevated style matches “Humanist Vampire’s” deadpan sense of humor, which is more drolly amusing than laugh-out-loud funny. As Sasha and Paul grow fonder of one another, the tone becomes downright cute at times — which is endearing, if lacking the morbid edge of the first half. With shades of the modern-classic vampire tales “Let the Right One In” and “What We Do in the Shadows,” “Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person” isn’t a wholly new take on the subgenre. But it is a charming one — a rom-com for teenagers (and teenagers at heart) who swoon when cute boys talk about death.