The Invitation

Evie (Nathalie Emmanuel) is an aspiring ceramics artist but works as a waitress doing silver service work to get by. Sometimes she manages to swipe one of the goodie bags of whatever function she's working as they tend to have alcohol or small gifts in.

This time it's a launch for DNA genealogy startup and the bag contains one of their testing kits. On a whim she submits it and hears back in a few days she's related to a wealthy English family. She meets up with the foppish Oliver (Hugh Skinner) who's been put in touch with her and he invites her to a big family wedding. With nothing much else going on in her life she accepts.

No good will come of this.

CW: mild jump scares and some bloodletting

Not everything has to be a masterpiece and just like the recent Red Sonja, Jessica M. Thompson's horror is basic competent, well delivered bread and butter filmmaking.

It's a very lightweight rework of classic Vampire stories with a likeable cast, some fun moments and is predictable as fuck.

Want a slice of horror cheese with bits of gothic romance nonsense this will do just fine. It's a 5/10 but sometimes it's a 5/10 kind of evening.