Dead & Beautiful

Name: Dead & Beautiful
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Released: November 4, 2021
Duration: 98 min
Rating: 47
Cast: Anna Marchenko, Aviis Zhong, Gijs Blom, Philip Juan, Yen Tsao

2021

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Shudder | Release Date (Streaming): November 4, 2021 | Not Rated

Starring: Anna Marchenko, Aviis Zhong, Gijs Blom, Philip Juan, Yen Tsao

Summary: After a wild night, a group of wealthy young friends wake up from their drunken stupor with a freakish discovery: each of them has grown a pair of fangs – vampire teeth. Bewildered at first, the group realizes they feel stronger and more attractive than ever before. As they strain to make sense of their new situation, they lose themselvesAfter a wild night, a group of wealthy young friends wake up from their drunken stupor with a freakish discovery: each of them has grown a pair of fangs – vampire teeth. Bewildered at first, the group realizes they feel stronger and more attractive than ever before. As they strain to make sense of their new situation, they lose themselves in a twisted game of taking their new vampire skills to the streets. In this new kind of nightlife, with the limits of life, love and death greatly blurred, it dawns on the group that they can no longer trust each other. Nobody can be sure of what this vampire business is all about - or, for that matter, if any of this is even real.

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Director: David Verbeek

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 98 min

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Natalia Keogan

Nov 4, 2021

What could have been a cogent critique of the parasitic nature between the uber-wealthy and the labor they exploit is instead an overly muted (and eventually weakly meta) version of a tale that’s been told a thousand times before. Read full review

The Guardian Cath Clarke

Nov 4, 2021

Director David Verbeek’s script doesn’t quite wield the scalpel with enough sadistic glee. Instead, this film feels ever-so-slightly sluggish and dour in places. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Monica Castillo

Nov 4, 2021

There are some fun ideas and moments in Dead & Beautiful, but Verbeek seems to want to avoid offending anyone with the suggestion that the rich are vampires—which is the premise his movie is built on. Read full review

Richard Kuipers

Nov 4, 2021

A middling horror-thriller and social satire that opens with an intriguing premise but never probes its cashed-up characters deeply enough to create gripping drama from the heightened hedonism or existential crises they experience after acquiring new powers. Read full review

Jenny Nulf

Nov 4, 2021

There’s a hollowness to its beauty, as much as there is with its messaging. Read full review

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JLuis_001

May 5, 2022

Most of the time when films like this one attempt to disguise the emptiness of their plot with the famous style over substance, you know that most of those times it will fail.
If you are more focused on looking good than telling a good story, then you are wasting the audience's time.
ButMost of the time when films like this one attempt to disguise the emptiness of their plot with the famous style over substance, you know that most of those times it will fail.
If you are more focused on looking good than telling a good story, then you are wasting the audience's time.

But does it really matter once you get into it? No, it really doesn't.
When the premise is about trying to make you care about such vacuous characters who are nothing more than spoiled rich kids who are also vampires, you really think you're telling a meaningful story?

This idea may have worked if the approach had been different, but like the disastrous Night Teeth which has a plot that shares certain similar traits, this is aimed at an audience they hope to entertain with a cheap gimmick because sadly they know they're going to succeed.… Expand

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