Mixing young adult dialogue with utterly insane character choices that ramp up levels of camp and stupidity with equal aplomb, the film swiftly settles for seeing what goes on in the shadows and casting aside its much better African-American enters white household social satire cum horror. The Invitation is a darkly frustrating affair, that feels like Twilight took on Dracula, and nobody won. However, Evie's charmed by the Lord of the Manor, Walt (Doherty, channeling early Julian McMahon) and soon finds herself caught up in a curse thousands of years old.
