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  • 2021
  • Periscoop Film
  • 1 h 38 m
  • 2021
  • Periscoop Film
  • 1 h 38 m

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 themselve...

Directed By: David Verbeek

Written By: Hugh Travers, David Verbeek

  • 2021
  • Periscoop Film
  • 1 h 38 m
  • 2021
  • Periscoop Film
  • 1 h 38 m

Dead & Beautiful

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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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 themselve...

Directed By: David Verbeek

Written By: Hugh Travers, David Verbeek

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 5 Critic Reviews
47
20% Positive
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60% Mixed
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20% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 5 Critic Reviews
47
20% Positive
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60% Mixed
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65
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.
By Natalia Keogan FULL REVIEW
60
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.
By Cath Clarke FULL REVIEW
50
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.
By Richard Kuipers FULL REVIEW
50
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.
By Monica Castillo FULL REVIEW
20
Nov 4, 2021
There’s a hollowness to its beauty, as much as there is with its messaging.
By Jenny Nulf FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Lemming Film, House on Fire International
Release Date Nov 4, 2021
Duration 1 h 38 m
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Awards

Taipei Film Festival
• 2 Nominations
Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Nederlands Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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