History Film / TheInvitation2022

Not to be confused with the [[Film/TheInvitation2015 other horror movie]] titled ''The Invitation''.

* FatalFlaw: [[spoiler: Lucky for her, she manages to escape alive, but Evie's fatal flaw is ''definitely'' being too naïve. The circumstances of her being invited to meet her distant relatives isn't given the proper modern-day cynicism from her. It should've been far more alarming how insistent her relatives were about meeting her, and it should've been ''even more'' suspicious that a bunch of very rich, very ''white'' wanted to fly a complete stranger to the middle of nowhere on their dime. At the very least, Evie should not have traveled there alone and asked to bring a friend; now, it wouldn't matter after the reveal that they're vampires, as they could just kill her friend when they were good and ready, but Evie does not take enough precautions handling the situation and it costs her dearly.]] If nothing else, if a trip sounds too good and too perfect, it is and one ought to stay away from it despite their own curiosity. However, her motivations are driven by the fact that she just lost her mother and is visibly struggling with her loss, so she bought the story of a loving extended family too quickly due to her lack of family.

* FatalFlaw: [[spoiler: Lucky for her, she manages to escape alive, but Evie's fatal flaw is ''definitely'' being too naïve. The circumstances of her being invited to meet her distant relatives isn't given the proper modern-day cynicism from her. It should've been far more alarming how insistent her relatives were about meeting her, and it should've been ''even more'' suspicious that a bunch of very rich, very ''white'' wanted to fly a complete stranger to the middle of nowhere on their dime. At the very least, Evie should not have traveled there alone and asked to bring a friend; now, it wouldn't matter after the reveal that they're [[spoiler: vampires, as they could just kill her friend when they were good and ready, but Evie does not take enough precautions handling the situation and it costs her dearly.]] If nothing else, if a trip sounds too good and too perfect, it is and one ought to stay away from it despite their own curiosity. However, her motivations are driven by the fact that she just lost her mother and is visibly struggling with her loss, so she bought the story of a loving extended family too quickly due to her lack of family.

* VampiresAreSexy:

* SlowPacedBeginning: We are passing the hour marker of the 100 minutes long movie before Evie goes from on an uncaring holiday to trying to run away from [[spoiler: vampires.]]

* Slow-PacedBeginning: We are passing the hour marker of the 100 minutes long movie before Evie goes from on an uncaring holiday to trying to survive [[spoiler: vampires]]

* FiveSecondForeshadowing: An old woman that Evie tried to get help from in town is named [[spoiler: Mina Harker]]. A few minutes later, we learn [[spoiler: Walter was probably ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'']].

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: [[spoiler:They are [[DaywalkingVampire unaffected by the sunlight]], don't age but look the same as when they turned, while they're killed with beheading, fire or a stake in the heart. Being gravely wounded can make them undergo RapidAging but won't kill them. They can sprout sharp talons and fangs on command. And they don't actually live forever, unless a suitable group is formed from the proper bloodlines, hence everyone's extreme desire to see Evie become Walt's new bride. They've been missing an Alexander for too long.]]

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: [[spoiler:They are [[DaywalkingVampire unaffected by the sunlight]], don't age but look the same as when they turned, while they're killed with beheading, fire or a stake in the heart. Being gravely wounded can make them undergo RapidAging but won't kill them. They can sprout sharp talons and fangs on command.]]

* {{Dracula}}: The film borrows heavily from the mythos, with the manor being called "New Carfax Abbey" only the start. [[spoiler:Walter is heavily implied to ''be'' Dracula, stating he was known as "Son of the Dragon" (what "Dracula" actually means). This would imply bride Lucy may be Lucy Westenra. Jonathan and Mina Harker appear late in the story. And, of course, the three brides are foundational plot of the film.]]

* TakingYouWitheMe: [[spoiler: Lucy dispatches Viktoria in a murder-suicide at the end of the film by pushing her and herself onto a stake.]]

* IfICantHaveYou: [[spoiler: After stabbing Walter and ruining the wedding, killing Mr. Field, Lucy and Victoria in the process, Walt becomes Evie’s final boss as he chases her through the manor and attempts to kill her for rejecting him.]]

** There's also Lucy, and of course the Harkers, whose names you might recognize.

* QuestionableConsent: Evie willingly goes to bed with Deville. Given how horrified later she is about learning [[spoiler:he's a vampire]], there is little change though that she'd have done this had this been revealed before having sex with him, making it essentially a BedTrick on his part.

* AmbiguouslyHuman: [[spoiler:Mr. Field, Mrs. Swift and the Harkers turn out to have served Deville at least for a century. None are identified as vampires like him, and don't know the traits. However, at the very least they're somehow immortal too, as they appear unchanged in old photos taken in the 1920s.]]

* MalignedMixedMarriage: It's strongly implied that a large part of the scandal Emmaline Alexander had caused by running away with a footman occurred because he was black while she was white. Later the butler Mr. Field comments negatively on this, althought without explicitly mentioning race, as does Viktoria as well.