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After ending last month with Lisa Brühlmann’s female coming-of-age tale Blue My Mind (listen), we’ve spent June discussing Danny Boyle’s Sunshine (listen) and Brian Trenchard-Smith’s 1997 sequel Leprechaun 4: In Space (listen).
Now we’re back in YA territory with Brad Michael Elmore‘s trans vampire tale Bit, but the 2019 film is quite a bit more fun than most coming-of-age texts.
Laurel (Nicole Maines) is a recent high school graduate that moves to L.A. to crash on her older brother Mark (James Paxton)’s couch and immediately falls in with a squad of female-identifying vampires. But fang life is complicated by Laurel’s refusal to feed or kill, which leads to friction with the coven’s leader Duke (Diana Hopper), who warns that Laurel’s bloodlust will put them all in danger.
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Episode 286: Bit (2019)
Assemble the V-Squad and check your ID sitch because we are headed to L.A. with Brad Michael Elmore’s trans vampire film, Bit (2019).
Along for the ride is returning guest Dani Bethea, who has a Frightgown history with Elmore and this very fun film.
Plus: praising leads Nicole Maines and Diana Hopper, lamenting the lack of backstory for the coven, Trace’s new found love of Boney M, lots of sibling talk, and is this aspirational trans horror…by a straight man?
Cross out Bit!
Coming up on Wednesday: We’re tackling the first half of the Grindhouse double bill with a look at Robert Rodriguez’s goopy zombie entry, Planet Terror!
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