Longlegs star Maika Monroe is set to star in Brides, an upcoming vampire horror from Watcher director Chloe Okuno.
As we prepare to flip the calendar over to another year, Osgood Perkins’ Longlegs stands out as one of the biggest successes of 2024, with the horror film not only earning a substantial take at the global box office, but also picking up plenty of critical buzz along the way. Naturally, that makes the film’s star, Maika Monroe, an in-demand actor, and while Monroe already has several interesting projects in various states of production, she has just added another horror film: Brides.
Brides is backed by Neon, the same distributor behind Longlegs. The project will see Monroe reunite with Chloe Okuno, the director of 2022’s Watcher, in which Monroe played a married woman who starts to think her Bucharest neighbour is a serial killer.
It didn’t make too much of a splash at the time of its release, but Watcher is available to view on streaming right now (specifically, Netflix in the UK) and in the wake of Longlegs’ success, may find a wider audience as fans of the latter film seek out more of Monroe’s work. Her new collaboration with Okuno looks very interesting indeed, promising a modern and dramatic twist on the Brides of Dracula trope.
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Here’s the synopsis, courtesy of Deadline:
‘Set in 1960s Italy, Sally Bishop (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.’
As of right now, we don’t know who will be playing the mysterious Dracula-like figure, or why we’re seeing so many vampire movies materialise of late (Nosferatu is out this Christmas; Ryan Coogler’s Sinners, said to be a period bloodsucker flick, is out in 2025).
As mentioned above, Monroe has several projects in progress, including a remake of The Hand That Rocks The Cradle and They Follow, the sequel to the excellent 2014 horror, It Follows. Last we heard, that one is due to shoot early next year. We’ll bring you more on Brides as we hear it.
