Maika Monroe has a new horror project coming up with the vampire movie Brides, and according to what is known about its story, it will cover an often ignored storyline from Dracula and can even fix it. Maika Monroe has earned a spot among the modern Scream Queens thanks to various horror roles in recent years. Monroe rose to fame when she starred as Jay Height in David Robert Mitchell’s It Follows. Monroe returned to the genre in 2019 with Villains, a horror comedy in which she starred alongside Bill Skarsgård.
After starring in the 2022 sci-fi horror movie Significant Other, Monroe had another massive horror hit when she played Lee Harker in Osgood Perkins’ Longlegs. Also starring Nicolas Cage as the title serial killer, Longlegs was a critical and commercial success, grossing $109 million against a budget of around $10 million. Now, Monroe will continue her path in the horror genre with a new movie titled Brides, directed by Chloe Okuno, with whom she worked in the psychological thriller Watcher – and so far, the premise of Brides sounds like an often ignored storyline from Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
Maika Monroe’s Brides Can Do Justice To A Specific Part Of Dracula’s Story
There’s One Part Of Dracula That Is Often Forgotten
According to Collider, Brides will take the audience to the 1960s to follow Sally Bishop (Monroe) and her husband. The Bishops go on a vacation to an Italian villa, hidden from the rest of the world, as Sally is recovering from a nervous breakdown. However, after meeting the couple, the villa’s owner is captivated by Sally’s beauty and charisma, so he decides to turn her into one of his vampire brides. Producer Andrew Bergman shared that Brides aims to redefine horror with Okuno’s blend of feminism and “gory visuals”, with a script that is dynamic and unsettling “in all the best ways”.
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The premise for Brides sounds a lot like one storyline in Bram Stoker’s Dracula that is often forgotten and ignored in movie adaptations: Dracula’s vampire brides. In the first part of Dracula, when Jonathan Harker begins to suspect there’s something sinister going on with Count Dracula, he is visited by three vampire women at night. Luckily for him, the Count arrives to save him and gives the women a small child bound inside a bag so they can feed on him.
Dracula’s brides are a part of Stoker’s novel that can be easily expanded.
Although the novel doesn’t go into detail on how and why these women became Dracula’s brides, they are often left aside in adaptations of the book or they are briefly shown and quickly forgotten. Dracula’s brides are a part of Stoker’s novel that can be easily expanded, and Brides can finally do justice to it even if the villa’s owner isn’t Dracula himself. Simply showing how and why the owner chooses his targets and what they do as his brides is enough to do justice to the brides of Dracula.
How Brides Can Give A Twist To Dracula’s Forgotten Partners
Brides Can Take Some Interesting Paths
As Dracula doesn’t go into details about the Count’s vampire brides, there’s a lot that can be done with this part of the novel. Brides could have the twist of Sally standing up to the vampire going after her and thus saving herself, perhaps even helping his brides break free from him (even if that means dying). Another possibility is that Sally will become a vampire, but not one that serves the vampire who turned her, and in this scenario, she could also help her fellow brides and set them free.
The biggest improvement Brides can make to the storyline of Dracula’s wives is to give Sally full agency, more so as it’s likely that the vampire’s other brides didn’t have any. There are different ways in which Brides can avoid being predictable, especially for those who know what happens in Dracula.
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