This is an episode that I found really terrifying and almost gut-wrenching, not from any gore, but from the horror the band of thespian vampires commit regarding their victims. What makes it compelling is that the first victim, up on the stage, futilely pleading with the audience - who all thought it was an act - to help her. She's quite innocent, a visiting Belgian to Paris, a wife and mother, simply selected for slaughter just because she's an innocent wife and mother and with no mercy the chorus of vampires turn her into fodder. And then there's the bloodbath of wealthy Parisians in an elegant chateau, but they deserve it because as their fellow French wallowed in misery from the shortages of war, they used their riches to scoop up whatever limited or rationed necessities or luxuries of life were available. So, at a party using all those resources for their wanton desires, the vampires eradicate them in screams of terror and pain. And we got to see it, in the background, as Louis and Armand were deep in conversation in the foreground, ignoring the mayhem of massacre with shadows in windows turned into splattering of blood and bodies hurtling to the ground with vampires feasting on them. Now that's how to film a horror TV series.
I can't wait until next Sunday.
Gerard
