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 […]
After directing Stephen King tales Gerald’s Game and Doctor Sleep, THR is reporting today that Mike Flanagan is now involved in a feature film adaptation of King’s Revival. Flanagan will write and produce for Warner Bros., “with an option to direct.” Trevor Macy (Doctor Sleep) will also produce. “The novel focused on the relationship between a […]
A24’s highly anticipated The Green Knight was set to rise on May 29th, but has finally lost the battle to the ongoing pandemic. There is no new date as of this writing. “From visionary filmmaker David Lowery comes a fresh and bold spin on a classic tale from the knights of the round table,” A24 explained of […]
The ‘90s often get a bad rap with horror fans. After the numerous successful slashers and creature effects films of the ’80s, the ‘90s offered a different variety of horror fare. Though there were plenty of hits, hidden gems, and misunderstood classics, the ‘90s usually don’t get the kind of love that other decades get when […]
Actor David H. Thornton is back as Art the Clown in Damien Leone‘s hotly-anticipated Terrifier 2, and the film’s official Facebook page is promising a trailer soon. For now, they’ve shared a bloody new shot of Art tonight – our very first look at the killer clown in the upcoming sequel. “Here he is in […]
This year marks 11 years since the first Paranormal Activity film scared its way onto the horror scene, and there’s no denying how much it shook up the genre. Its wide-release debut brought the once-dormant found footage subgenre back into the subconscious and helped spawn a plethora of imitators that would attempt to emulate and […]
The minds behind 10 Cloverfield Lane, Josh Campbell and Matt Stuecken, will be penning an adaptation of Elizabeth Bear‘s short sci-fi story Covenant, Deadline is reporting today. Spyglass Entertainment acquired the story, and Eli Roth is on board to produce. In Bear’s short story, “A former serial killer — the beneficiary of “rightminding”, a process that cures psychopathy by […]