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The remake of Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala’s 2014 unsettling horror movie Goodnight Mommy is headed your way this week from Prime Video. Naomi Watts (The Ring) stars along with Cameron and Nicholas Crovetti (“Big Little Lies”). Jeremy Bobb (“The Outsider”), Crystal Lucas-Perry (Mimesis Nosferatu), and Peter Hermann (“Younger”) co-star. In Goodnight Mommy, “When twin brothers (Cameron and Nicholas Crovetti) arrive at their mother’s (Naomi Watts) country home to discover her face covered in bandages—the result, she explains, of recent cosmetic surgery—they immediately sense that something doesn’t add up. She sets strange new house rules, smokes in her bathroom, and secretly rips up a drawing they gave her—things their loving mother would never do. As her behavior grows increasingly bizarre and erratic, a horrifying thought takes root in the boys’ minds: The sinking suspicion that the woman beneath the gauze, who’s making their food and sleeping in the next room, isn’t their mother at all.”’ Matt Sobel (Take Me To
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“American Horror Story” veteran Evan Peters stars as the infamous serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer in Netflix’s new series “Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story” which reunites Peters with “AHS” creator Ryan Murphy. The trailer has arrived that gives us a glimpse into the depravity of the crimes of murder, necrophobic, and cannibal, Dahmer who murdered at least 17 young men and boys between 1978 and 1991. With many of his victims, he would sedate them and drill a hole in their heads and would then pour in chemicals in the hole in an attempt to create the perfect zombie lover that would never leave him. I didn’t work. The series, “chronicles the story of one of America’s most notorious serial killers (Peters), largely told from the point of view of Dahmer’s victims, and dives deeply into the police incompetence and apathy that allowed the Wisconsin native to go on a multiyear killing spree.” “Between 1978 and 1991, Jeffrey Dahmer gruesomely took
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There are a ton of Netflix releases coming out over the next couple of months, one of them in the psychological horror-thriller The Wonder, starring Academy Award-nominee Florence Pugh who also starred in the creepy film Midsommer. Today, we have the first look at the film. The film was inspired by the 19th-century phenomenon of the “fasting girls” and the acclaimed novel by Emma Donoghue (writer of Room) which is being adapted. “The Irish Midlands, 1862 – a young girl stops eating but remains miraculously alive and well. English nurse Lib Wright is brought to a tiny village to observe eleven-year-old Anna O’Donnell. Tourists and pilgrims mass to witness the girl who is said to have survived without food for months. “Is the village harboring a saint ‘surviving on manna from heaven or are there more ominous motives at work?” Tom Burke, Niamh Algar, Kíla Lord Cassidy, Elaine Cassidy, Ciarán Hinds, Toby Jones, Dermot Crowley, Brían F. O’Byrne, and David
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Sony has now announced that the sequel to 2018’s thriller Searching is on its way and is titled Missing. While the plot is being kept quiet at the moment, we do know that the story is not connected to the original movie, but it will have the same “screen life” format where parts of the story will unfold over the screens of phones and computers. Storm Reid, Nia Long, Joaquim de Almeida, Daniel Henney, Ken Leung, Megan Suri, Amy Landecker, and Tim Griffin are set to star. Will Merrick and Nick Johnson, who worked on the original movie, will direct for Sony’s Stage 6 Films. In Searching John Cho stars as a father whose daughter mysteriously disappears. During his desperate hunt for her, he turns to her computer and social media to attempt to find answers. Searching 2: Missing is set to premiere on February 24, 2023. Here’s a look back at the trailer for Searching.
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Star Wars actor Adam Driver is heading back to outer space in 65. Sam Raimi has teamed up with Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, the writers of A Quiet Place, for the sci-fi thriller. After being in limbo for several years the film that also stars Ariana Greenblat (Avengers: Infinity War), and Chloe Coleman (My Spy), finally has a release date from Columbia Pictures, March 10, 2023. In 65, an astronaut who crashes lands on a mysterious planet and discovers that he is not alone. Zainab Azizi and Debbie Liebling are producing along with Raimi. We’ll update you when we know more.
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This September, a priest faces evil in 223 Wick, an indie throwback to classic thrillers like those of Hitchcock and Kubric. In the thriller, “plagued by visions and nightmares, a catholic priest is ousted from his parish. With nowhere to turn, he follows the sinister visions calling him and discovers a deal he alone must stop.” Alexi Stavrou, Jack Dimich, Dawn Lafferty, and Sergio Myers II star in the film directed by Sergio Myers, reality TV veteran and documentary filmmaker (MTV’s Sorority Life, Heavens Gate: The Untold Story, Becoming Pony Boi). The film is written by Melanie Clarke-Penella and Jess Byard. Melanie Clarke-Penella, Cindy Castro DiRusso, and Thomas Sjölund, produce with Myers and Eric Vaughan executive producing. Gravitas Ventures will release 223 WICK on digital on September 20, 2022.
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Bring home Jordan Peele’s Nope this September. Keke Palmer, Daniel Kaluuya, Steven Yeun, Brandon Perea, and Michael Wincott. The film reunites Peele with Oscar® winner Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out, Judas and the Black Messiah), who is joined by Keke Palmer (Hustlers) and Oscar® nominee Steven Yeun (“The Walking Dead”) as residents in a lonely gulch of inland California who bears witness to an uncanny and chilling discovery.” Nope, which stars Michael Wincott (Hitchcock, “Westworld”) and Brandon Perea (“The OA,” American Insurrection), is written and directed by Jordan Peele and is produced by Ian Cooper (Us, Candyman) and Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions. EXCLUSIVE BONUS FEATURES ON 4K UHD, BLU-RAYTM, DVD & DIGITAL: SHADOWS: THE MAKING OF NOPE* – Unpack the meaning of NOPE with Jordan Peele. Secrets are revealed with this 56-minute immersion exploring the film’s unanswered questions, taking you on an intimate journey inside every aspect of production and offering a detailed look at Peele’s revolutionary filmmaking process. DELETED SCENES –
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Netflix has unveiled a new unsettling motion poster for “1899” that sees a ship full of unsuspecting passengers on the edge of an abyss in the Bermuda Triangle. Written on the poster is “What is lost can be found,” Which only adds to the mystery. What we know is just a drop in the ocean. From the creators of DARK, comes 1899 — their next mind-bending mystery. pic.twitter.com/W1DbDP7aHR — Netflix (@netflix) September 13, 2022 The upcoming series comes from Jantje Friese and Baran bo Odar, the creators of “Dark” and stars Emily Beecham, Aneurin Barnard, Anton Lesser, Lucas Lynggaard Tønnesen, Mathilde Ollivier, and Andreas Pietschmann. Netflix describes “1899” as “A visually stunning odyssey where nothing is as it seems. The makers of the internationally acclaimed series “Dark” take us to the year “1899” aboard the Kerberos.” Multinational immigrants traveling from the old continent to the new encounter a nightmarish riddle aboard a second ship adrift on the open sea. The
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The highly-anticipated psychological horror Speak No Evil, from Shudder and IFC Midnight, makes its debut on the streaming service this week! In Speak No Evil, while on a vacation in Tuscany, two families – Danish and one Dutch – meet and become fast friends. Months later, the free-spirited Dutch family extends an invitation to the more conservative Danish one for a holiday weekend getaway at their countryside home. However, it doesn’t take long before things gradually get out of hand as the joy of reunion is replaced with misunderstandings. The Dutch hospitality quickly turns unnerving for the Danes, and they find themselves increasingly caught in a web of their own politeness in the face of eccentric…or is it sinister…behavior. An official selection of Sundance Midnight 2022, Speak No Evil is written and directed by Christian Tafdrup (A Horrible Woman) and has also played the Goteborg Film Festival 2022, Seattle International Film Festival 2022, Chicago Critics Film Festival, the Bucheon International
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Hocus Pocus 2 isn’t the only spooktacular Halloween movie debuting on Disney+ this fall. The new trailer for Marvel’s hair-raising Special Werewolf by Night has just arrived. The black and white horror is from director Michael Giacchino who wanted to pay homage to the horror classics that spooked you as a child while honoring the comic of the same name. The character made its first appearance in Marvel Spotlight #2, released in February 1972. Gael Garcia Bernal (M. Night Shyamalan’s Old) stars as a character able of transforming into a werewolf while retaining their human intellect. Laura Donnelly stars as Nina Price. “Price is the niece of the character Jack Russell/Werewolf by Night and a vampire/werewolf hybrid. She carried the Lycan gene and was further changed after being bitten by a vampire.” Werewolf by Night will be unleashed on Disney+ on October 7, 2022.
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The remake of Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala’s 2014 unsettling horror movie Goodnight Mommy is headed your way this week from Prime Video. Naomi Watts (The Ring) stars along with Cameron and Nicholas Crovetti (“Big Little Lies”). Jeremy Bobb (“The Outsider”), Crystal Lucas-Perry (Mimesis Nosferatu), and Peter Hermann (“Younger”) co-star. In Goodnight Mommy, “When twin brothers (Cameron and Nicholas Crovetti) arrive at their mother’s (Naomi Watts) country home to discover her face covered in bandages—the result, she explains, of recent cosmetic surgery—they immediately sense that something doesn’t add up. She sets strange new house rules, smokes in her bathroom, and secretly rips up a drawing they gave her—things their loving mother would never do. As her behavior grows increasingly bizarre and erratic, a horrifying thought takes root in the boys’ minds: The sinking suspicion that the woman beneath the gauze, who’s making their food and sleeping in the next room, isn’t their mother at all.”’ Matt Sobel (Take Me To
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“American Horror Story” veteran Evan Peters stars as the infamous serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer in Netflix’s new series “Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story” which reunites Peters with “AHS” creator Ryan Murphy. The trailer has arrived that gives us a glimpse into the depravity of the crimes of murder, necrophobic, and cannibal, Dahmer who murdered at least 17 young men and boys between 1978 and 1991. With many of his victims, he would sedate them and drill a hole in their heads and would then pour in chemicals in the hole in an attempt to create the perfect zombie lover that would never leave him. I didn’t work. The series, “chronicles the story of one of America’s most notorious serial killers (Peters), largely told from the point of view of Dahmer’s victims, and dives deeply into the police incompetence and apathy that allowed the Wisconsin native to go on a multiyear killing spree.” “Between 1978 and 1991, Jeffrey Dahmer gruesomely took
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There are a ton of Netflix releases coming out over the next couple of months, one of them in the psychological horror-thriller The Wonder, starring Academy Award-nominee Florence Pugh who also starred in the creepy film Midsommer. Today, we have the first look at the film. The film was inspired by the 19th-century phenomenon of the “fasting girls” and the acclaimed novel by Emma Donoghue (writer of Room) which is being adapted. “The Irish Midlands, 1862 – a young girl stops eating but remains miraculously alive and well. English nurse Lib Wright is brought to a tiny village to observe eleven-year-old Anna O’Donnell. Tourists and pilgrims mass to witness the girl who is said to have survived without food for months. “Is the village harboring a saint ‘surviving on manna from heaven or are there more ominous motives at work?” Tom Burke, Niamh Algar, Kíla Lord Cassidy, Elaine Cassidy, Ciarán Hinds, Toby Jones, Dermot Crowley, Brían F. O’Byrne, and David
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Sony has now announced that the sequel to 2018’s thriller Searching is on its way and is titled Missing. While the plot is being kept quiet at the moment, we do know that the story is not connected to the original movie, but it will have the same “screen life” format where parts of the story will unfold over the screens of phones and computers. Storm Reid, Nia Long, Joaquim de Almeida, Daniel Henney, Ken Leung, Megan Suri, Amy Landecker, and Tim Griffin are set to star. Will Merrick and Nick Johnson, who worked on the original movie, will direct for Sony’s Stage 6 Films. In Searching John Cho stars as a father whose daughter mysteriously disappears. During his desperate hunt for her, he turns to her computer and social media to attempt to find answers. Searching 2: Missing is set to premiere on February 24, 2023. Here’s a look back at the trailer for Searching.
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Star Wars actor Adam Driver is heading back to outer space in 65. Sam Raimi has teamed up with Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, the writers of A Quiet Place, for the sci-fi thriller. After being in limbo for several years the film that also stars Ariana Greenblat (Avengers: Infinity War), and Chloe Coleman (My Spy), finally has a release date from Columbia Pictures, March 10, 2023. In 65, an astronaut who crashes lands on a mysterious planet and discovers that he is not alone. Zainab Azizi and Debbie Liebling are producing along with Raimi. We’ll update you when we know more.
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This September, a priest faces evil in 223 Wick, an indie throwback to classic thrillers like those of Hitchcock and Kubric. In the thriller, “plagued by visions and nightmares, a catholic priest is ousted from his parish. With nowhere to turn, he follows the sinister visions calling him and discovers a deal he alone must stop.” Alexi Stavrou, Jack Dimich, Dawn Lafferty, and Sergio Myers II star in the film directed by Sergio Myers, reality TV veteran and documentary filmmaker (MTV’s Sorority Life, Heavens Gate: The Untold Story, Becoming Pony Boi). The film is written by Melanie Clarke-Penella and Jess Byard. Melanie Clarke-Penella, Cindy Castro DiRusso, and Thomas Sjölund, produce with Myers and Eric Vaughan executive producing. Gravitas Ventures will release 223 WICK on digital on September 20, 2022.
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Bring home Jordan Peele’s Nope this September. Keke Palmer, Daniel Kaluuya, Steven Yeun, Brandon Perea, and Michael Wincott. The film reunites Peele with Oscar® winner Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out, Judas and the Black Messiah), who is joined by Keke Palmer (Hustlers) and Oscar® nominee Steven Yeun (“The Walking Dead”) as residents in a lonely gulch of inland California who bears witness to an uncanny and chilling discovery.” Nope, which stars Michael Wincott (Hitchcock, “Westworld”) and Brandon Perea (“The OA,” American Insurrection), is written and directed by Jordan Peele and is produced by Ian Cooper (Us, Candyman) and Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions. EXCLUSIVE BONUS FEATURES ON 4K UHD, BLU-RAYTM, DVD & DIGITAL: SHADOWS: THE MAKING OF NOPE* – Unpack the meaning of NOPE with Jordan Peele. Secrets are revealed with this 56-minute immersion exploring the film’s unanswered questions, taking you on an intimate journey inside every aspect of production and offering a detailed look at Peele’s revolutionary filmmaking process. DELETED SCENES –
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Netflix has unveiled a new unsettling motion poster for “1899” that sees a ship full of unsuspecting passengers on the edge of an abyss in the Bermuda Triangle. Written on the poster is “What is lost can be found,” Which only adds to the mystery. What we know is just a drop in the ocean. From the creators of DARK, comes 1899 — their next mind-bending mystery. pic.twitter.com/W1DbDP7aHR — Netflix (@netflix) September 13, 2022 The upcoming series comes from Jantje Friese and Baran bo Odar, the creators of “Dark” and stars Emily Beecham, Aneurin Barnard, Anton Lesser, Lucas Lynggaard Tønnesen, Mathilde Ollivier, and Andreas Pietschmann. Netflix describes “1899” as “A visually stunning odyssey where nothing is as it seems. The makers of the internationally acclaimed series “Dark” take us to the year “1899” aboard the Kerberos.” Multinational immigrants traveling from the old continent to the new encounter a nightmarish riddle aboard a second ship adrift on the open sea. The
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The highly-anticipated psychological horror Speak No Evil, from Shudder and IFC Midnight, makes its debut on the streaming service this week! In Speak No Evil, while on a vacation in Tuscany, two families – Danish and one Dutch – meet and become fast friends. Months later, the free-spirited Dutch family extends an invitation to the more conservative Danish one for a holiday weekend getaway at their countryside home. However, it doesn’t take long before things gradually get out of hand as the joy of reunion is replaced with misunderstandings. The Dutch hospitality quickly turns unnerving for the Danes, and they find themselves increasingly caught in a web of their own politeness in the face of eccentric…or is it sinister…behavior. An official selection of Sundance Midnight 2022, Speak No Evil is written and directed by Christian Tafdrup (A Horrible Woman) and has also played the Goteborg Film Festival 2022, Seattle International Film Festival 2022, Chicago Critics Film Festival, the Bucheon International
Continue reading →
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Hocus Pocus 2 isn’t the only spooktacular Halloween movie debuting on Disney+ this fall. The new trailer for Marvel’s hair-raising Special Werewolf by Night has just arrived. The black and white horror is from director Michael Giacchino who wanted to pay homage to the horror classics that spooked you as a child while honoring the comic of the same name. The character made its first appearance in Marvel Spotlight #2, released in February 1972. Gael Garcia Bernal (M. Night Shyamalan’s Old) stars as a character able of transforming into a werewolf while retaining their human intellect. Laura Donnelly stars as Nina Price. “Price is the niece of the character Jack Russell/Werewolf by Night and a vampire/werewolf hybrid. She carried the Lycan gene and was further changed after being bitten by a vampire.” Werewolf by Night will be unleashed on Disney+ on October 7, 2022.
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