
A supernatural, coming-of-age story fascinated with the campy weirdness of Jennifer’s Body and the visceral body horror of Raw, Bloodlust looks to explore adolescence, otherness, and the apparent monstrosity of growing into yourself as a queer girl in the repressive clutches of suburbia. Quiet, demure, and superficially pure, Faith is everything she’s supposed to be, but there’s something violent and insatiable bubbling under her surface. Following a long history of thematically queer vampires (from Brahm Stoker’s Dracula to Le Fanu’s Carmilla), Faith’s evolution into a vampire-like creature functions as an externalization of her otherness. However, in a deviation from the classics, Faith’s freedom can only come once she gives in to her monstrous form and loses control…
























