REVIEWS: ‘MY HEART CAN’T BEAT UNLESS YOU TELL IT TO’ SHOWS THE HEAVIER SIDE OF VAMPIRISM [CFF 2021]

Modern Horrors
by Jeremy Burgess

With My Heart Can’t Beat Unless You Tell It To, Jonathan Cuartas leans just about as far into the downside of vampirism as the format allows. Not since Let The Right One In has a film illustrated the bleak nature of not just being a vampire but being the caretaker for one, and not since A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night has a debut feature given us such an engaging vampire story.

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