Directed By: Neil Jordan

Starring: Caleb Landry-Jones, Saiorse Ronan, Gemma Arterton

Saiorse Ronan and Gemma Arterton eschew the glitter and capes for this classy romantic horror about a pair of disarmingly attractive vampires living under the radar in modern Britain. Byzantium is the perfect companion to Neil Jordan’s previous directing work on Interview With A Vampire, and casts the bloodthirsty abominations in the same sexy (moon)light as 1994’s Brad Pitt vehicle.

Ronan’s character, Eleanor, is tired of living under the radar and longs to tell her newfound beau Frank (Played by the perpetually ill-looking Caleb Landry-Jones) her story, while Gemma Arterton’s matriarchal Clara fights to protect her ‘sister’ from a mysterious secret society that would rather see them dead. Continue reading →