Maika Monroe (Longlegs) and director Chloe Okuno (V/H/S/94: Storm Drain, Watcher) will reteam for the upcoming horror movie Brides, and Longlegs distributor NEON has officially announced this morning that they’ve boarded the project. It’s “coming soon.”
NEON has picked up North American rights to the upcoming Brides of Dracula-inspired vampire film. Deadline notes in an exclusive report, “NEON will release the film theatrically.”
Here’s the synopsis: “Set in 1960s Italy, Sally Bishop (Maika Monroe) and her husband travel to a remote villa in the wake of Sally’s nervous breakdown. The villa’s owner, a mysterious count, takes a peculiar interest in Sally. But he gets far more than he anticipated when Sally’s feminist chaos is added to his perfect, violent Eden of vampire brides.”
Chloe Okuno’s Brides is sad to be at least loosely inspired by Bram Stoker’s horror classic Dracula, and it’s set to “flip Bram Stoker’s narrative on its head, exploring the struggle between societal repression and carnal desire.” It’s also described as “gothic, glamorous, and gory.”
Okuno and Monroe previously teamed on 2022 horror movie Watcher.
In addition to the upcoming Brides, Maika Monroe also has a handful of other projects in the works. Of particular note, she’s starring in a remake of The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, and Monroe will also be reprising her role from It Follows in NEON’s sequel They Follow.
Dracula-based projects have been hot in recent years, with films including The Invitation (2022), The Last Voyage of the Demeter and Renfield all taking inspiration from the classic tale.
Coming this Christmas, Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu also (unofficially) adapts Stoker’s Dracula.
