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

Thursday, October 23, 2025 | News

By MICHAEL GINGOLD

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.”

Michael Gingold
Michael Gingold (RUE MORGUE's Head Writer) has been covering the world of horror cinema for over three decades, and in addition to his work for RUE MORGUE, he has been a longtime writer and editor for FANGORIA magazine and its website. He has also written for BIRTH.MOVIES.DEATH, SCREAM, IndieWire.com, TIME OUT, DELIRIUM, MOVIEMAKER and others. He is the author of the AD NAUSEAM books (1984 Publishing) and THE FRIGHTFEST GUIDE TO MONSTER MOVIES (FAB Press), and he has contributed documentaries, featurettes and liner notes to numerous Blu-rays, including the award-winning feature-length doc TWISTED TALE: THE UNMAKING OF "SPOOKIES" (Vinegar Syndrome).