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Innocent Blood (1992)
★ 6.2 · 248 ratings on TMDB
The movie that goes straight for the jugular.
Marie is a vampire with a thirst for bad guys. When she fails to properly dispose of one of her victims, a violent mob boss, she bites off more than she can chew and faces a new, immortal danger.
DirectorJohn Landis
The emergence reading
In Innocent Blood, consciousness is carried by monsters and creatures — a plane of “vampire crime noir”. The story fights on E8/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing crime, morality, immortality, love.
↷ monsters and creaturesUScrimemoralityimmortalitylove
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Also hides consciousness here
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The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
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