You’re invited to the wedding of the season! Set in a beautiful English mansion, the guests include old weirdos in masks, obscenely wealthy creeps, racist butlers, disposable hired help, and oh yeah, vampires.
“The Invitation,” a moody but poorly paced modern-day take on “Dracula” from director Jessica M.
Thompson, plays its cards pretty close to the vest and doesn’t let on that it’s a vampire movie right away.
But all the marketing has given that twist away, so I feel no problem stating it here.
Besides, if you’re well-schooled in vampire lore, especially involving Dracula, you’ll figure things out pretty quickly.
I mean, hell, the big mansion the majority of the movie is set at is called New Carfax Abbey, and Carfax Abbey was the plot of land Dracula bought when he came to England from Transylvania.
Later, characters named Jonathan and Mina Harker pop up.
And there’s even a Lucy.
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