Maika Monroe (Longlegs) and director Chloe Okuno (V/H/S/94: Storm Drain, Watcher) will reteam for the upcoming horror film Brides, and Longlegs distributor NEON has formally introduced this morning that they’ve boarded the mission. It’s “coming quickly.”
NEON has picked up North American rights to the upcoming Brides of Dracula-inspired vampire movie. Deadline notes in an unique report, “NEON will launch the movie theatrically.”
Right here’s the synopsis: “Set in Sixties Italy, Sally Bishop (Maika Monroe) and her husband journey to a distant villa within the wake of Sally’s nervous breakdown. The villa’s proprietor, a mysterious rely, takes a peculiar curiosity in Sally. However he will get way over he anticipated when Sally’s feminist chaos is added to his excellent, violent Eden of vampire brides.”
Chloe Okuno’s Brides is unhappy to be a minimum of loosely impressed by Bram Stoker’s horror traditional Dracula, and it’s set to “flip Bram Stoker’s narrative on its head, exploring the wrestle between societal repression and carnal need.” It’s additionally described as “gothic, glamorous, and gory.”
Okuno and Monroe beforehand teamed on 2022 horror film Watcher.
Along with the upcoming Brides, Maika Monroe additionally has a handful of different tasks within the works. Of explicit word, she’s starring in a remake of The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, and Monroe may also be reprising her position from It Follows in NEON’s sequel They Comply with.
Dracula-based tasks have been sizzling lately, with movies together with The Invitation (2022), The Final Voyage of the Demeter and Renfield all taking inspiration from the traditional story.
Coming this Christmas, Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu additionally (unofficially) adapts Stoker’s Dracula.
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