Exclusive Trailer Premiere: DARK HOUSE OF THE MANNEQUINS

Some families are built. Some are broken. And some were never meant to be.

In the "grand tradition of ’60s exploitation cinema," Dark House of the Mannequins was written and directed by Staci Layne Wilson, stars Arielle Brachfeld, and will be released this summer. Here's your first look at the official trailer:

"Meet Beatrice. She’s a devoted wife, a loving mother, a dedicated sister, and a gifted artist living in a home that radiates warmth, order, and quiet contentment. Life, by any measure, is good.

There’s just one small detail: her family isn’t exactly... alive.

When Beatrice unexpectedly comes into money, word travels to another family—a fractured, desperate, decidedly unhappy one—who decide they have a greater claim to that windfall than some eccentric woman in a house full of dolls. Their plan is simple. Wait for darkness, break in, take what they want. What they don’t count on is what Beatrice has built inside that house, or how fiercely she’ll protect it.

What unfolds over the course of one long, strange, gore-soaked night is a confrontation between two very different definitions of “family,” and a grimly funny reckoning with the question of which kind is more dangerous.

Dark House of the Mannequins is a cult melodrama in the grand tradition of ’60s exploitation cinema—arch, off-kilter, and gloriously committed to its own warped logic. With a grindhouse soul, a camp heart, and a stylized aesthetic that owes as much to fever dreams as it does to late-night creature features, the film revels in a deliberately stilted, artificially heightened world where grief, obsession, and domestic fantasy curdle into something genuinely unsettling.

This is not a film that winks at the audience. It stares with unblinking eyes.

Starring Arielle Brachfeld in a performance as mannequin-still and as volatile as the film itself, Dark House of the Mannequins presents a singular vision. It’s the kind of flick that finds its audience not in multiplex rows but in midnight screenings, cult collections, and the living rooms of people who have always suspected that the weirdest stories are the ones that feel, somehow, most true."

Coming to Prime, Vudu, Tubi, and BloodstreamTV This Summer