69%User score 69 percent
Underworld
2003 · Fantasy · Action
User Score
977 votes
Irresistible. Immoral. Immortal.
Residents of a coastal town learn, with deadly consequences, the secret shared by the two mysterious women who have sought refuge at a local boarding house, the Byzantium.
Recommendations based on this film
Reno
July 17, 2015
> The way I wanted like the old days, great! An Irish vampire movie, thus back to where the vampires were originated. There are no good vampire movies these days, all those are teen target products which are simply a fantasy flick. In the old days, its horror and terrifying ugly giant beasts, the werewolves were, but in the todays movies they are adorable giant wolves. It's either vampire movie or werewolf, the resul…
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January 9, 2017
With it's beautiful cinematography, steady pace, and understated acting, <i>Byzantium</i> is solid modern Gothic vampire tale. A bit reminiscent of <i>Interview with the Vampire</i> and <i>The Moth Diaries</i>, we see mother and daughter vampire in current day and through flashbacks and storytelling are told of how they came to be and the loneliness of their existence. <i>Byzantium</i> is a slow burn and never takes…
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Wuchak
February 18, 2026
**_Lost Girls on the gloomy coasts of the British Isles_** This comes in the tradition of the director’s “Interview With a Vampire” from eighteen years earlier which, incidentally, was the year the star of this one was born, Saoirse Ronan. Moira Buffini wrote the script using her one-act stage play “A Vampire Story” as inspiration. This lush-but-melancholy film is more explicit, expanding the tale to include the orig…
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