Announced this afternoon, Shudder has acquired the stylish vampire movie Dead & Beautiful, with the official trailer today announcing a premiere on Thursday, November 4, 2021.
The film, written and directed by David Verbeek, is also set to play at Fantastic Fest in Austin, TX on Saturday, September 25. The Fantastic Fest website explains, “Filled with hazy neon cityscapes, chic clothes, and mesmerizing needle drops, Dead & Beautiful is a decadent, excessive, engrossing work of art. It’s the spiritual sibling of Only Lovers Left Alive, crafted with similarly textural visuals and beautiful characters lounging with the chicest of existential malaise.”
In Dead & Beautiful, five rich, spoiled Asian twenty-somethings (Gijs Blom, Aviis Zhong, Yen Tsao, Philip Juan, Anechka Marchenko) are suffering from upper class ennui, unsure how to spend their days when so little is expected from them. In search of excitement, the five friends form the “Circle,” a group where they take turns designing a unique, extravagant experience for the others. But things go wrong when the privileged urbanites awaken after a night out, to find they have developed vampire fangs and an unquenchable thirst for flesh, blood, and adventure at any price.
Dead & Beautiful is produced by Erik Glijnis (Pleasure) and Leontine Petit (The Lobster) of Lemming Film, in co-production with House on Fire International, Nukleus Film, and Woods of Light Film.