Vampires vs The Bronx: Fighting Gentrification For The Soul of The Hood

Vampires vs The Bronx is by The Bronx, for The Bronx, and will slaughter any invaders. An instant fan favorite, this film has so much heart and wooden stakes for the gentrifiers. At the core of this film is a sentiment that The Bronx is all about survival and grit, community, and straight-up Capicu!    If you are not a Bronx resident you can still enjoy this flick, but your heart might not yurrrr the same way. If you are from the city, you’ve definitely got buy-in but you might miss the little nuances that are so Bronx. Light spoilers from here on in. Grand Concourse: (They Reminisce Over You) The film begins on a dark and stormy night. Well not really it is dark, not stormy and it begins with…Zoe Saldana!? Yes, the actor known for her role as Gamora in the MCU plays a nail technician named Becky, taking the buyout from Murnau Properties.  I laughed out loud at that statement. Zoe Saldana, a Becky who owns Rebecca’s Nail Salon, is selling out! Realtor Frank Polidori played by Shea Whigham (Det.Burek, Joker) offers something around $50,000 to Becky to purchase her salon, as she celebrates getting out of the hood. All of this happens just after she finished up a late walk-in manicure for a white woman who has just moved to the neighborhood. She is a petite blonde woman chatting about how she got priced out of her old neighborhood and is so astonished by The Bronx; amazed at how ‘no one really knows it’s here’!  * PoC EYE ROLL * real hard. Now, if you…