From Jared Leto’s biochemist in the Marvel film to the avenging feminist in A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, the new-generation bloodsuckers live, walk and even laugh freely among usI am writing this week’s column, as it happens, from Cluj in Romania, on a visit to the Transylvania film festival, where the sunny days are long, spirits are high, and the undead threats you might usually look out for on a trip to Transylvania seem very far at bay.
We don’t much consider vampires in mid-summer, but then, with Stranger Things fever in the air, perhaps spooky season has come early: Sony has taken it as an opportunity to release Morbius on VOD, a darker-leaning Marvel comic adaptation that hits offguard viewers with the dual terrors of modern vampires and Jared Leto at his most mannered.But it’s actually reasonably good fun, balancing light
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