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“BRIDES,” vampire film from Chloe Okuno (“WATCHER”), casts up, gets rolling

The ’60s-set horror feature is set for theatrical release next year.

Neon has announced that BRIDES, the new movie from WATCHER’s Chloe Okuno, has added Harry Lawtey, Jodie Turner-Smith (TRON: ARES), Viola Prettejohn and Guillermo del Toro regular/WATCHER co-star Burn Gorman (pictured above) to the cast. They join Olivia Cooke (who replaced originally announced Maika Monroe) in the film, which Okuno is directing from her own script. The synopsis: “On a trip to Northern Italy in 1961, Sally Bishop [Cooke] and her husband find themselves stranded at a remote villa run by the enigmatic Vova [Lawtey], who presides over a household of beautiful, deathless women [Turner-Smith, Prettejohn] and their caretaker [Gorman]. As Sally becomes entangled in their world of seduction, violence, and illusion, she begins to lose her grip on time and self, as her own dark transformation unfolds.”

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