Most characters are presumed white, but there is a diversity in age and socio-economic status.
Moldavia is resplendent with wonderfully wacky details, characters and settings, but the gothic gets rococo-heavy with the weight of so many references to both real and imagined films and know-it-all filmmaking insights. Heavy-handed in its dark flourishes, Dario’s first-person narrative avoids being lachrymose and lands somewhere both self-aware of the surrounding silliness and respectful in matters of mental illness and abuse. When the will names Dario as studio chief, he is forced to consider delaying Harvard while he evaluates his family legacy.
Despite this dermal aversion, he returns home for the live (yes, live) burial of 91-year-old dad. The mere thought of his peculiar 30-something brother, institutionalized mother, and abusive director father gives him hives. Seventeen-year-old Dario Heyward comes from Moldavia, a broken horror film studio. A legally emancipated teen confronts derelict family dynamics, hoping for closure from a terrible childhood at a B-movie studio: Cue zombies and killer cauliflower.
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