Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Vampire Academy



The teaser for a forthcoming movie called Vampire Academy reads “They Suck at School.” This is an ingenious triple entendre. “Attention must finally be paid to such a person,” was what was said about Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman. Well, attention should be paid to this advertising locution. Of course vampires suck blood. But what the teaser is also saying is that vampires who are thirsty for blood also have no time for their studies. Naturally, when they're not sucking blood, vampires are also sucking other things. And the reference to fellatio is the coup de grace. You can almost hear the Witches of Macbeth alternating  the addictive combination of blood, semen and failure in between their “double, double toil and trouble.” Vampire Academy is based on the young adult series by Richelle Mead, of which six volumes have already been published (in addition to Vampire Academy, they are Frostbite, Shadow Kiss, Blood Promise, Spirit Bound and Last Sacrifice) and the poster of the film, which locks onto you like a drone as you exit the subway, features the two fetching leads, Zoey Deutch (who plays Rose Hathaway) and Lucy Fry (in the role of Lucy Dragomir). Okay students are always admonished  to "stick with the winners,” and stay away from those kids who are bad news, but even if these girls are at the bottom of the class, it’s obvious they won’t have any trouble honing in on their prey. The promo for Vampire Academy is almost as successful as that for a l968 film called Succubus, which lured filmgoers with the prospect of sexy paranormality. The difference is that the succubus doesn’t suck at school or anywhere else. According to Merriam-Webster Online, it's merely “a demon assuming female form to have sexual intercourse with men in their sleep"

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