In the intro some woman hangs herself in a mansion.
A catering girl serving arrogant rich people during some corporate event decides to send in a DNA-ancestry test from the company sponsoring the event. Now that she's in the databases she can look up her distant relatives. One of them contacts her. It's some Brit. He invites her to the wedding of some relatives there.
She reluctantly (TM) goes then to this all expenses-paid trip to a British castle. She right away has a run in with the arrogant chief butler as the abused catering girls arrive, with whom she connects immediately. Then she meets the owner of the castle who "saves her" from the butler. They are attracted to each other. Tuns out the entry hall of the mansion is the place where the woman in the intro hanged herself. There are some huge monster statues all over the place. She is told she can't go into the library. At night she discovers the location of the hidden library key. Later we see how the butler sends one of the catering girls in there. Let's just say she doesn't fare well. Our girl is introduced to the whole family, which is almost entirely made up of guys.
Next day she meets 2 bridesmaids. A sweet and friendly one, and a creepy arrogant one who keeps pushing our girl's buttons, which is easy to do since she has a huge chip on her shoulder. Our girl gets closer and closer to the mansion owner who suggests they should marry and she sort of agrees. Later that day there's a family dinner where guy announces, much to girl's shock, the wedding of the two. So this meeting is of three families that have been connected for centuries. The fourth missing family member is finally present--the girl. And in marriage then all of them will prosper. Then butler brings in a catering girl, slashes her throat and passes on glasses of blood for folks to drink.
Turns out mansion owner is a big time vampire who needs the girl to keep the line going. During the wedding they will exchange blood which will turn her into a vampire and give him strength. Of course she's not interested in massive wealth and eternal life, what American would be... So she has other plans for the wedding.
The Invitation then comes across as a vampire-themed version of Get Out with an unappealing cinematography reminiscent of Euphoria. I'm glad someone finally made a vampire movie with a budget. Unfortunately the politics, casting, and poor cinematography don't help the story much. Missing is also more violence, gore, sensuality--in other words everything a vampire horror flick should have.
A catering girl serving arrogant rich people during some corporate event decides to send in a DNA-ancestry test from the company sponsoring the event. Now that she's in the databases she can look up her distant relatives. One of them contacts her. It's some Brit. He invites her to the wedding of some relatives there.
She reluctantly (TM) goes then to this all expenses-paid trip to a British castle. She right away has a run in with the arrogant chief butler as the abused catering girls arrive, with whom she connects immediately. Then she meets the owner of the castle who "saves her" from the butler. They are attracted to each other. Tuns out the entry hall of the mansion is the place where the woman in the intro hanged herself. There are some huge monster statues all over the place. She is told she can't go into the library. At night she discovers the location of the hidden library key. Later we see how the butler sends one of the catering girls in there. Let's just say she doesn't fare well. Our girl is introduced to the whole family, which is almost entirely made up of guys.
Next day she meets 2 bridesmaids. A sweet and friendly one, and a creepy arrogant one who keeps pushing our girl's buttons, which is easy to do since she has a huge chip on her shoulder. Our girl gets closer and closer to the mansion owner who suggests they should marry and she sort of agrees. Later that day there's a family dinner where guy announces, much to girl's shock, the wedding of the two. So this meeting is of three families that have been connected for centuries. The fourth missing family member is finally present--the girl. And in marriage then all of them will prosper. Then butler brings in a catering girl, slashes her throat and passes on glasses of blood for folks to drink.
Turns out mansion owner is a big time vampire who needs the girl to keep the line going. During the wedding they will exchange blood which will turn her into a vampire and give him strength. Of course she's not interested in massive wealth and eternal life, what American would be... So she has other plans for the wedding.
The Invitation then comes across as a vampire-themed version of Get Out with an unappealing cinematography reminiscent of Euphoria. I'm glad someone finally made a vampire movie with a budget. Unfortunately the politics, casting, and poor cinematography don't help the story much. Missing is also more violence, gore, sensuality--in other words everything a vampire horror flick should have.