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Herein lies the timeless beauty of Twilight, and of all the other vampire movies and TV shows shamelessly built on audience thirst (many of which will be celebrated over the next week on vulture dot com): There’s just something about wildly infeasible bloodlust that keeps us coming back for more.
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Wolfgang Ruth, Vulture, 1 May 2025
This has been in service of no one, but the bloodlust of our state government.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 19 Mar. 2025
The stuffy 19th-century British public was frankly terrified of the prospect of a teenage girl whose lust for a man quickly morphed into bloodlust in just one act.
—E.r. Zarevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Mar. 2025
There’s an earthy savagery at the heart of Eden that consumes not just the people onscreen but the people in the audience, too; our own bloodlust is provoked, as if to prove the point that there’s something rotten lurking in the hearts of all people.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2024
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Wolfgang Ruth, Vulture, 1 May 2025
This has been in service of no one, but the bloodlust of our state government.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 19 Mar. 2025
The stuffy 19th-century British public was frankly terrified of the prospect of a teenage girl whose lust for a man quickly morphed into bloodlust in just one act.
—E.r. Zarevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Mar. 2025
There’s an earthy savagery at the heart of Eden that consumes not just the people onscreen but the people in the audience, too; our own bloodlust is provoked, as if to prove the point that there’s something rotten lurking in the hearts of all people.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2024
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“Bloodlust.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bloodlust. Accessed 19 May. 2025.
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