If you’re looking for something a little different to watch this weekend then Shudder has just the title for you. Dead & Beautiful is David Verbeek’s seventh feature and is a full on vampire thriller with a satirical social edge that only the premium horror service could deliver.
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.
In his review of the film Neil said “Dead & Beautiful aims its fangs squarely at the jugular of social-satire. An intriguing mix of horror and social commentary coalesce with mixed but altogether fascinating results.”
Watch the full clip, in which the group explores drinking blood for the first time, in the player below:
Dead & Beautiful is written and directed by David Verbeek (R U There). The film is available to stream now via Shudder.
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