I Saw the TV Glow (2024)Director: Jane SchoenbrunScreenwriter: Jane SchoenbrunStarring: Justice Smith, Brigette Lundy-Paine, Ian Foreman, Helena Howard, Lindsey Jordan, Danielle Deadwyler, Fred Durst Do you like girls?I don’t know.Boys?I- I- I think that, I like TV shows. Psychological thriller, coming-of-age story, spacey sci-fi – all categories that general audiences will try to fit I […]
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In a Violent Nature (2024)Director: Chris NashScreenwriter: Chris NashStarring: Ry Barrett, Andrea Pavlovic, Charlotte Creaghan, Cameron Love, Liam Leone, Alexander Oliver, Reece Presley In the realm of the slasher genre, Chris Nash’s In a Violent Nature checks every theoretical box: a masked killer on a revenge rampage, an isolated setting, questioning morality and sexuality, and
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The First Omen (2024)Director: Arkasha StevensonScreenwriters: Tim Smith, Arkasha Stevenson, Keith ThomasStarring: Nell Tiger Free, Tawfeek Barhom, Sônia Braga, Ralph Ineson, Bill Nighy It seems that there is something in the air. We are in a new era of Nunsploitation or, perhaps more specifically, Catholic-sploitation. In the past few years we’ve had films such as
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Immaculate (2024)Director: Michael MohanScreenwriter: Andrew LobelStarring: Sydney Sweeney, Álvaro Morte, Simona Tabasco, Benedetta Porcaroli, Giorgio Colangeli, Dora Romano, Giulia Heathfield Di Renzi Horror films haven’t been great this year, at least not the ones that make it to general release on the big screen. With more on the way in the upcoming weeks and months,
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Lisa Frankenstein (2024)Director: Zelda WilliamsScreenwriter: Diablo CodyStarring: Kathryn Newton, Cole Sprouse, Liza Soberano, Joe Chrest, and Carla Gugino Mary Shelley spent a lot of her time in cemeteries. As writer Bess Lovejoy explained in her 2018 article for JSTOR Daily, Shelley would often take walks through the St. Pancras churchyard and visit the grave of
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Night Swim (2024)Director: Bryce McGuireScreenwriters: Bryce McGuire, Rod BlackhurstStarring: Wyatt Russell, Kerry Condon, Amélie Heoferle, Gavin Warren The Shining. A story about a family moving to a new location. Sinister things are afoot, hauntings of those long since dead, and the youngest can see it but the older ones don’t seem to acknowledge it. Then
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Enys Men (2022)Director: Mark JenkinScreenwriter: Mark JenkinStarring: Mary Woodvine, John Woodvine, Edward Rowe With his breakthrough feature, 2019’s Bait, Mark Jenkin earned plenty of critical acclaim, crafting an intimate drama so specific to a small area of England that it spoke to many the world over. Naturally, after making such an impact, many of his
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M3GAN (2023)Director: Gerard JohnstoneScreenwriters: Aleka CooperStarring: Allison Williams, Violet McGraw, Ronny Chieng, Amie Donald, Jenna Davis Following their collaboration on 2021’s Malignant, writing duo Aleka Cooper and James Wan (Saw) have re-teamed for another crack at the whip, this time attacking the evil robot theme that has so long been a staple of the horror
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Halloween Ends (2022) Director: David Gordon Green Screenwriters: Paul Brad Logan, Chris Bernier, Danny McBride, David Gordon Green Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Andi Matichak, James Jude Courtney, Rohan Campbell, Jesse C. Boyd Halloween Ends. Thank the cinema gods that it does. One year ago, Halloween Kills, the previous instalment in the new cycle of Halloween
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The Orphanage (2007) Director: J.A. Bayona Screenwriter: Sergio G Sánchez Starring: Belén Rueda, Fernando Cayo, Roger Princep, Mabel Rivera, Montserrat Carulla, Geraldine Chaplin, Andrés Gertrúdix, Edgar Vivar, Óscar Casas Oftentimes an executive producer presenting a project to an audience doesn’t count for a lot. Steven Spielberg didn’t manage to do a lot for Michael Bay’s
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