Vampire (2011 film)

Vampire is a 2011 dramatic horrorthriller film that was directed and written by Shunji Iwai. It was first released on January 22, 2011 at the Sundance Film Festival and is the first film he has directed in English. The movie stars Kevin Zegers as a teacher who believes himself to be a blooddrinking vampire.

Iwai was inspired to create Vampire after he got the idea about a serial killer who was more like a friend to his victims and liked the question of if the victims are working with the killer in helping kill themselves, would it be considered murder or aided suicide?. While further developing the idea for Vampire Iwai wanted to strip away the romantic idea behind vampirism, but also wanted to explore the idea of a vampire that is not a supernatural creature but rather a real human being. He based the character of Simon partially on the strange habits that we all have and stated that if he had not come up with the idea of Simon, he would have likely passed on Vampires theme. Iwai penned the script for Vampire himself. However, as Iwai had difficulty with spoken English dialogue, asked the performers to not follow the script too closely and try to be more spontaneous so that the dialogue would be natural.Actor Kevin Zegers was asked to perform in the film after Iwai met Zegers while dining with friends. Zegers immediately accepted and was one of the first actors brought in. Filming for Vampire took place in Vancouver, Canada during spring of 2010, and Zegers later stated that the process was very taxing due to the films nature. Iwai confirmed this, saying that the weather was always gray and rainy, which can bring the mood down and that he gave a lot of freedom to Kevin with his character, Simon, so he really took on the sadness and troubles Simons character was going through. ........

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