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Heartbreaking news—Michelle Trachtenberg, beloved star of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Gossip Girl, and Harriet the Spy, has passed away at 39.

Reports indicate she recently underwent a liver transplant and may have experienced complications. Rest in peace. 🕯️😔

Louis and Lestat are perhaps one of the most modern embodiments of Gothic romance, blending eternal desire with the anguish of immortality. In AMC’s Interview with the Vampire, Louis is haunted by conscience, memory, and the fragility of life, while Lestat is a force of seduction and danger, a creature of eternal night who embodies both beauty and menace. Their love is a delicate dance of desire and dread, erotic and overwhelming with every glance and touch.

Much like Belle and the Beast, Louis and Lestat exist in a world that reflects their emotional extremes, only the castle of shadow is now a townhouse in the French Quarter where nights stretch endlessly. Louis’ vulnerability and yearning echo Belle’s heart, while Lestat’s magnetic intensity and capacity for both cruelty and tenderness recall the Beast, making their connection as transformative as it is risky. They are mirrors of one another: Lestat illuminated by Louis’ human tenderness, Louis transformed by the haunting beauty of Lestat’s darkness, each (one day) learning to love what was once unbearable within themselves.

Their romance, like many Gothic romances before them, is built on contrasts: beauty and decay, intimacy and isolation, mortality and immortality. Louis and Lestat prove that Gothic romance is never safe, but it is intoxicating as it ultimately is about embracing fear and desire with the only person who makes living for eternity worthwhile.

Now, this is my cousin’s film. I did not write or direct it. I did have a small role in the film. But I am proud of my cousin who made his first film…and I’m proud to have been offered a small role. My friend Ryan from iHorror did a review of the film for iHorror Magazine https://ihorror.com/ssssstoner-snake-2025-exactly-the-movie-you-think-it-is-and-proud-of-it/