A depressed musician reunites with his lover. However, their romance, already played over several centuries, is disrupted by the arrival of her uncontrollable younger sister.
This is a film that finds horror not in the extreme, but in the mundane. That alone makes it a worthwhile entry in a genre that it both inhabits and rises above.
– Bill Goodykoontz,
Arizona Republic,
8 May 2014
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Somehow it's all very entertaining and weird and fitting, with Detroit looking like a place any vampire would be happy to be.
– Tom Long,
Detroit News,
2 May 2014
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You don't so much watch this movie as slink into it, joining an unlikely pair of lovers and enjoying their slouchy elegance.
– Moira MacDonald,
Seattle Times,
1 May 2014
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"Only Lovers Left Alive" breathes new and intriguing life into the vampire genre.