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The Invitation <\/strong><\/em>(2022)<\/p>\n Director:\u00a0 Jessica M. Thompson<\/strong><\/p>\n Screenplay:\u00a0 Blair Butler<\/strong><\/p>\n Stars: Nathalie Emmanuel, Thomas Doherty, Sean Pertwee, Hugh Skinner <\/strong>and Scott Alexander Young Tagline: You are cordially invited to a nightmare generations in the making.<\/em><\/p>\n The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n “Evie” Jackson (Emmanuel) is a struggling artist who, after a DNA test, learns she has relatives in England.\u00a0 One of them, Oliver (Skinner) reaches out to Evie.\u00a0 They meet and hit it off. Oliver informs Evie that her great-grandmother had a secret child with one of the family’s African-American servants.\u00a0 It was quite the scandal at the time!\u00a0 Oliver invites Evie to attend an up-coming wedding in England – all expenses paid.\u00a0 Although hesitant at first, Evie accepts.<\/p>\n When Evie arrives at New Carfax Abbey, she meets Walter De Ville (Doherty) lord of the manor, and host of the wedding.\u00a0 Evie is shocked at the opulence on display, but has to admit she’s attracted to De Ville.\u00a0 It’s obvious he feels the same towards her.\u00a0 But something isn’t right.\u00a0 Everything feels a bit off.\u00a0 Evie will find out too late why.<\/p>\n Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n I liked the slow buildup to the reveal the wedding.\u00a0 It’s not much of a spoiler to say that there are quite a few Dracula<\/em> Easter eggs throughout the film – everything from character names to locations.\u00a0 If you’re not a Dracula<\/em> fan and miss them, it won’t take away from the film.\u00a0 If you do recognize them, they should enhance your viewing.<\/p>\n Nathalie Emmanuel is best known for her role in Game of Thrones<\/em>.\u00a0 I first saw her in Furious 7<\/em> and thought she had star power then.\u00a0 She’s excellent as Evie.\u00a0 I look forward to her future projects. Thomas Doherty is well cast as De Ville.\u00a0 I’d never see Doherty before.\u00a0 He has charisma and at times reminded me of a young Sean Connery.\u00a0 Perhaps he could be the next 007.<\/p>\n The Invitation begins with the feel of a love story, then morphs into psychological horror and ends as a pedal to the floor vampire flick.\u00a0 I liked it better than most so your mileage may vary.\u00a0 For me…<\/p>\n The Invitation <\/strong><\/em>earns 4 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n The Invitation (2022) Director:\u00a0 Jessica M. Thompson Screenplay:\u00a0 Blair Butler Stars: Nathalie Emmanuel, Thomas Doherty, Sean Pertwee, Hugh Skinner and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[52,17,53,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-celebs","category-horror","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31506"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31532,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31506\/revisions\/31532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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