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Dead & Beautiful

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Netherlands, Taiwan · 2021
1h 38m
Director David Verbeek
Starring Aviis Zhong, Gijs Blom, Yen Tsao, Anechka Marchenko
Genre Horror

Bored with lives of extreme wealth and privilege, a group of spoiled young rich kids seek out unique excitements and increasingly ostentatious experiences. But when they wake up after a wild night out to discover they have developed vampire fangs and a thirst for blood, their friendship begins to unravel.

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60

The Guardian by Cath Clarke

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.

50

RogerEbert.com by Monica Castillo

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.

65

Paste Magazine by Natalia Keogan

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.

50

Variety by Richard Kuipers

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.

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