The Carmilla Movie is a 2017 Canadian comedy horror film directed by Spencer Maybee, based on the web series of the same name (2014–2016).
At the mansion, they are greeted by ghosts from Carmilla's past; the girls who were sacrificed in her mother's rituals and are unable to cross over into the afterlife.
Elle stalks and picks off Laura and Carmilla's friends, sending them into the dimension as well, and tries to torment them into surrendering the last remaining ghost, Charlotte.
Laura discovers the nightmare realm to be a dimension forcing it's captives to experience their worst memories constantly as a personal Hell.
In an after credits scene, Carmilla is approached by the spirit of her sister Mattie, who warns her that the anglerfish entity from Silas was female and has laid eggs.
[1] Both the film and the web series were adapted from the 1872 gothic novella Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu.
[8] The film stars the cast of the web series: Elise Bauman, Natasha Negovanlis, Annie Briggs, Kaitlyn Alexander, Nicole Stamp, and Matt O'Connor.
Newly introduced cast members include Dominique Provost-Chalkley, Grace Lynn Kung, and Cara Gee.
[17] Amy Zimmerman of The Daily Beast praises that the film does not focus on "pale men and their fawning female victims", but rather sapphic women who are not "portrayed through harmful stereotypes".
According to Amy, "Carmilla's creative team actively avoids the tropes that have come to define queer women in pop culture".