For me, The Devil’s
Wedding Night is kind of like a Dracula movie but with Rosalba Neri playing Dracula, which is just a prepossessing idea. However,
that’s not quite what it is, as it plays more like a spinoff, fanfic, or sequel
to Dracula, where Count Dracula is the stuff of legend, with his power being
the focus of archeological research. It’s interesting that in the film’s story Edgar Allan Poe seems to be an upcoming
new sensation, which sets it around the first half of the 19th century, making
it predate the events in Bram Stoker’s
novel that occur around the 1890s. So, The
Devil’s Wedding Night could actually be a prequel to Dracula. I mean, who
was that mysterious smirking man in the woods, at the tavern, and on the castle
grounds we kept seeing? The mysterious man is a nice touch who’s most likely a
servant to the ring, but there’s nothing ruling out that he could have been
Dracula the whole time, perhaps a powerless Dracula who needs the black mass wedding ceremony to be reborn.
