NIGHT AFTER NIGHT, she watches the watchers. She intoxicates them with the flickering glow of film reels, gazing down from her booth at the backs of their heads and the napes of their necks. If male patrons can’t keep their hands to themselves, she shows no mercy.
She’s the Projectionist—the vampiric heroine of Sweeping Exits’ new EP.
The Portland glam-punk band’s latest release functions as a soundtrack to an imagined cinematic narrative created by frontwoman Mira Glitterhound (vocals/guitar). Her bloodthirsty protagonist is a young woman working at a movie theater in the late 1950s who literally consumes predatory men.
“The vampires in this canon, I made them in the most extreme form in that they eat and devour humans,” says Glitterhound. “Once they’re done, there’s pretty much just bones left.”