In short, The Transfiguration offers a lot to vampire fans. Whether you want to hear how Twilight goes over with a teen well versed in vampire lore, or you are looking for something that shares vibes with many of your favorite bloodsuckers.

| Feb 20, 2025

Proves you don’t have to completely reinvent vampire mythology to give audiences something fresh that borrows elements of its predecessors, giving horror fans an intimate and tragic coming-of-age tale.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 12, 2023

The Transfiguration is a slow-burning look at love and loss through they eyes of vampire lore. With a stellar young lead actor in Eric Ruffin, it’s an emotional movie that more people should talk about.

| Apr 6, 2023

Although there are kills and some gore her, it can't rightly be called a horror film.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 1, 2021

The Transfiguration is a harrowing and visceral horror movie experience, while also being a poetic rumination on love and loss.

| Feb 5, 2020

The Transfiguration is a quietly potent film, alternately sad and hopeful, raw and sweet - sort of like life itself.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 8, 2020

[A] brooding, romantic and ultimately quite bleak rumination on the vampire myth that would most comfortably be described as art-house horror.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Oct 4, 2019

'The Transfiguration' is a powerful film that explores dangerous obsessions with horror. The performances were brilliant and the atmosphere remained tense from start to finish.

| Original Score: 4.5 | Aug 15, 2019

Every so often, a horror like this comes along speaking so loud, so proud in a unique way that it helps the whole genre. In this case, also the vampire sub-genre.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | May 3, 2019

Transfiguration is occasionally intriguing. Sadly, attempts at deeper characterisation remain frustratingly opaque and muddled, much like the film's meaning and narrative arc.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 3, 2019

A wonderfully told modern vampire tale set in the inner city. The film features strong performances and stunning cinematography by Sung Rae Cho. The ending left me reeling.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 3, 2018

The Transfiguration is not only a sort of sad love story, but it is also a story of unchecked mental illness.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Nov 2, 2018

The unique vampire film is one of the better modern-day ones.

| Original Score: B+ | Oct 24, 2018

The greatest trick the devil played was convincing the world he didn't exist, and Milo seems to be in on the game. The Transfiguration puts the ire back in vampire.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Oct 10, 2018

With strong echoes of Let the Right One In, it is the setting that makes [director Michael] O'Shea's picture distinctive, and when he is mining that his otherwise routine piece soars far above the average.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 22, 2018

In the end, all has been for nothing, and the vampire genre's exciting possibilities have been wasted on a messy script and messier intentions.

| Jul 4, 2018

O'Shea does wonders with his young cast, in what could have been a tired retread of a well-worn genre, giving us a deeply moving portrait of a killer and his redemption.

| Feb 25, 2018

This psychological horror thriller is certainly dourly realistic. It is also very slow going. Yet it generates surprising sympathy for its sociopathic protagonist [and] makes some shrewd points about pain, loss and urban violence.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 18, 2018

O'Shea works hard to find a denouement which will tie up all the loose ends and lend The Transfiguration suitable pathos. Sadly, one can't help but wonder if it would make Milo's video library.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 29, 2017

Let the Right One In is as much about alienated adolescents living in a high rise who find common ground in the social isolation as it is about blood-sucking.

| Dec 19, 2017