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‘The Invitation’ is a romance-horror ‘origin story for the Brides of Dracula,’ director says
'The Invitation' is a romance-horror 'origin story for the Brides of Dracula,' director says,It’s hard to reinvent the vampire movie. The upcoming horror flick The Invitation doesn’t set out to do that, not exactly, but it does manage to find a fresh new angle that it can sink its fangs into. First, the movie really forefronts the class aspect that’s lurking in most vampire movies. And, second, it presents a unique vampire mythology that puts the focus not on a Dracula-like figure, but on his wives — or would-be wives.

‘The Invitation’ is a romance-horror ‘origin story for the Brides of Dracula,’ director says

It’s hard to reinvent the vampire movie. The upcoming horror flick The Invitation doesn’t set out to do that, not exactly, but it does manage to find a fresh new angle that it can sink its fangs into. First, the movie really forefronts the class aspect that’s lurking in most vampire movies. And, second, it presents a unique vampire mythology that puts the focus not on a Dracula-like figure, but on his wives — or would-be wives.