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We eventually get that with Carmilla and Laura as they have a few blood-soaked intimate moments. It just never all really comes together. The story is a little slow, taking a bit before we actually get into it. Laura certainly seems to have an interest in Carmilla, but none of it feels natural.
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The performances are iffy across the board. Fierman is far and away the highlight of the film. She seems to have a real knack for playing these adorable, but oddball characters that have a very sinister and dark side to them.
With that said she tends to be a little uneven at times. Either way it would have been fun to see her take it up a notch. I have to talk about the music of The Unwanted.
A few times throughout the movie a very generic rock music plays. He blamed Karen's mysterious ailment and eventual death on Millarca, whom he believes to have been a vampire who seduced Karen. Laura, who self-injures, excitedly tells Carmilla, who has not left town yet, that she now understands herself and her sexuality. The two begin a lesbian relationship that mirrors that of their mothers. Carmilla discovers Laura's scars and makes Laura promise to stop self-injuring. Carmilla further tells Laura she will not engage in blood fetishism any more, as it is a substitute for self-injury.
Carmilla urges Laura to leave town with her, but Laura resists.
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Troy becomes suspicious that Laura is still seeing Carmilla and warns her that he will not allow Carmilla to hurt her. Exasperated, Laura insists that Carmilla has done nothing to her. However, Troy breaks into her bedroom and discovers extensive scars from Laura's self-injuring. Mistaking them as evidence of Carmilla's vampirism, Troy threatens to kill Carmilla as he did Millarca. Troy binds Laura to her bed and says that if Carmilla returns to the house, it is proof she is a vampire. Laura desperately warns off Carmilla when she shows up, but Carmilla refuses to leave without Laura.
Laura stops him before he can finish her off with a knife. As Laura calls the police, Troy retrieves his knife and kills Carmilla.
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As she dies, Carmilla sees her mother. Laura flees the house and drives off into the night as the police arrive. Wood is a fan of Gothic fiction and was inspired to adapt Carmilla when he thought about what would happen if the story were retold from a modern perspective without supernatural aspects.
He says that whether vampires exist or not is immaterial to the story, as it derives its conflict from the idea of a person who does believe in them. The most important part to him was to maintain the atmosphere of paranoia in a rural setting.
Wood said that Troy, a religious man, is unable to accept that his wife and daughter are possibly lesbians, and he instead substitutes the fantasy of vampirism. Troy was originally designed to be more of an explicit villain, but Katt convinced Wood to make him more ambiguous.
Wood drew from his own experiences of learning about himself after leaving home and said that the film is about "this process of self-discovery". Marc Savlov of The Austin Chronicle rated it 1. Miller of Ain't It Cool News wrote, "Here, all forms of metaphor are shucked away and in its place is a good-old Southern gothic-horror film about two lost souls coming together through adversity.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For the silent film, see The Unwanted film. Atlanta's Bret Wood explores fathers, daughters and vampires in "The Unwanted " ".