It had been announced back in December that Yorgos Lanthimos (The Killing of a Sacred Deer, The Favourite) would be directing an adaptation of Richard Brautigan’s 1974 novel The Hawkline Monster: A Gothic Western for New Regency, and it looks like that’s still the plan. Additionally, Tony McNamara (The Favourite) is now in talks to write […]
In an age where Googling the term “body cam” yields endless news articles of police body camera footage revealing excessive violence, it’s not surprising that the volatile subject matter is being addressed and explored through film. Last year’s action-thriller Black and Blue, for example, saw a rookie cop on the lam after capturing a murder by […]
Not that any news of this sort is any kind of surprise anymore but Variety is reporting today that Edgar Wright‘s psychological horror movie Last Night in Soho has been pulled off the release schedule by Focus Features. The film had been set for release on September 25, 2020. Last Night in Soho, starring Anya […]
There’s been a recent trend in Korea of blending period dramas with horror, with zombie thriller Rampant and Netflix’s zombie series Kingdom taking advantage of the visuals of the Joseon era to make for a different horror experience. So too does the creature feature Monstrum. The film is introduced as “based on a true story,” […]
Recent releases like Monstrum and The Wretched continue to prove one thing: horror fans can’t get enough of monsters. Of all the branching sub-genres of horror, one of the cornerstones belongs to the creature feature. At its most ubiquitous of definitions, the creature feature is simply a horror movie in which a monster plays a prominent role; the […]
Not horror but how can we not mention this?! The first remake of 1932’s Howard Hawks-directed Scarface was brought to the screen by an incredible team including writer Oliver Stone and director Brian De Palma, and Universal’s new take on the iconic tale has similarly assembled one hell of a creative team. Deadline reports that […]
Florence Pugh, Shia LaBeouf and Chris Pine were recently set to star in New Line Cinema and director Olivia Wilde‘s (Booksmart) psychological thriller Don’t Worry Darling, and Deadline reports today that Dakota Johnson (Suspiria) has also joined the cast. Here’s the logline we were recently provided with: A psychological thriller about a 1950s housewife whose reality begins to […]
IFC Midnight has just acquired North American rights to the “retro Tinder nightmare” Rent-A-Pal, written and directed by Jon Stevenson. “Set in 1990, a lonely bachelor named David (Brian Landis Folkins) searches for an escape from the day-to-day drudgery of caring for his aging mother (Kathleen Brady). While seeking a partner through a video dating […]
What even is time anymore? The days and months feel as though they’ve bled into one homogenous mass lately, thanks to the strange timeline we find ourselves trapped within. So, this week’s streaming picks are dedicated to the twisted concept of time. Horror movies that prove, at best, that disrupting the flow of time adds […]
“Kill her, Mommy!” Horror’s relationship with motherhood is vast. There’s no shortage of films that explore the complex fears of being a mother. From terrifying mothers like Margaret White in Carrie to well-intentioned but flawed moms like Annie Graham in Hereditary, the maternal instinct is killer in the genre space. Friday the 13th‘s Pamela Voorhees is arguably the fiercest and […]