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Neuer Stoff für Horrorfans. Leonine Studios hat den ersten Trailer zu dem Schocker „Bagman“ veröffentlicht, in dem Sam Claflin die Hauptrolle spielt.

Die Produzenten von „Smile“ und dessen Fortsetzung wissen, wie man effektiven Horror produziert. Das stellen sie nun auch mit „Bagman“ unter Beweise, der am 5. Dezember im Verleih von Leonine Studios in die deutschen Kinos kommen wird. Die Hauptrollen spielen Sam Claflin („Ein ganzes halbes Jahr“, „The Nightingale“, „Daisy Jones & the Six“) und Antonia Thomas („The Good Doctor“, „Misfits“). Regie führte Colm McCarthy („The Girl with All the Gifts”, „Black Mirror“).

Der Verleih verspricht „einen atmosphärisch dichten Film(…), der die Angst vor dem Unbekannten meisterhaft in Szene setzt und die Zuschauer in eine Welt zieht, in der die Vergangenheit einfach nicht ruhen will.“ Jetzt gibt es einen ersten Trailer.

Mubi has unveiled next month’s streaming lineup, including an exciting lineup of notable new releases: Bertrand Bonello’s Coma (along with Nocturama), Julia Loktev’s The Loneliest Planet (as her newest film premieres at the New York Film Festival), Martin Rejtman’s The Practice alongside his previous features, Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person, and more.

As David Katz said in his review from 2022’s Berlinale, “Coma is anything but a navel-gazing work, and more one of imaginative empathy. It is not Being Bertrand Bonello, but addressed to and concerning a person of a far-removed generation and gender: his teenage daughter Anna. Some amusing early interactions with pop culture, especially music, come from this cross-generational conversation: ‘turn that garbage off’ et al. But Bonello looks at the Zoomer state of mind, as he does for much else of importance, and has cutting, perceptive and troubling things to say.”

Check out the lineup below,...

Edimotion rückt bei seiner 24. Ausgabe Australien als Gastland in den Fokus. Hauptgast ist der australische Filmeditor Simon Njoo, der „The Nightingale“ mitbringt. Kuratiert wurde das Internationale Programm von Dietmar Kraus.

Dietmar Kraus kuratiert und moderiert das Internationale Programm bei Edimotion (Credit: Edimotion)

Australien ist Gastland des 24. Edimotion – Festival für Filmschnitt und Montagekunst in Köln. Die Realisierung wurde durch die Zusammenarbeit mit dem australischen Verband „Australian Screen Editors“ (Ase) sowie durch die Unterstützung von Screen Australia und Spectrum Films ermöglicht. Hauptgast ist Filmeditor Simon Njoo, der den vielfach preisgekrönten „The Nightingale“ mitbringt. Der Film, der 2018 sechs australische Filmpreis gewann und in Venedig ausgezeichnet wurde, wird am 12. Oktober im Rahmen des Gastlandabends im Filmforum des Museums Ludwig gezeigt. Simon Njoo ist außerdem Dozent der diesjährigen International Masterclass des Festivals: „The Pleasure in Fear – Editing Thrillers“ ermöglicht Editor:innen mittels Case Studies und Rohmaterial, in Theorie und Praxis das Feld psychologischer Spannungsführung auszuloten.

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Horror movies are rarely critical darlings. Despite this, The Babadook became one of the most beloved movies of the 2010s. The director of The Babadook was once convinced the movie was a failure. Now, she has a different perspective.

The director of ‘The Babadook’ took 1 comment as gospel

Jennifer Kent is a movie director known first and foremost for The Babadook. During a 2024 interview with Variety, she discussed the film’s premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. While many filmmakers would be thrilled to attend Sundance, it was a nerve-wracking experience for Kent.

“It [was] a hyper-aware moment for me, ‘Why is that woman coughing? Why is there so much silence?'” Kent recalled. “Like, what do I want them to talk through the film? Then when the film ended, the woman in front of me said, ‘Well, that was crap.’ I remember completely shutting down and thinking, ‘Oh, I’ve made a big turkey.

Jennifer Kent has revealed a sequel to ‘The Babadook’ is unlikely.The beloved horror movie - which stars Essie Davis, Daniel Henshall and Hayley McElhinney - is celebrating its 10th anniversary but its 55-year-old director has admitted there probably won’t be a follow-up flick because she is "too involved" with other projects.When Screen Rant asked Kent if a sequel was on the table, she said: "No, I think I'm too involved in other films that I'm trying to get made. "I mean, if there suddenly became some desperate urge to tell a story related to that, I would probably say, ‘Okay, all bets are off. I'm going to go and make the sequel.’ But I just can’t see that happening. I feel that the idea has really been explored."‘The Nightingale’ director then teased she was currently working on some horror projects for both the big and small screen.

Although it may be hard to believe, this autumn marks one decade since the release of Jennifer Kent's The Babadook, and IFC Films is teaming up with Iconic Events Releasing to celebrate the film's 10th anniversary with a theatrical re-release beginning September 19th, complete with a new Q&a between Jennifer and Academy Award winner Alfonso Cuarón.

To celebrate The Babadook's return to the big screen, Daily Dead caught up with writer/director Jennifer Kent to reflect on making her beloved movie one decade ago, the cinematic influences behind The Babadook, and the film's enduring legacy and rising popularity ten years after its initial release.

Below, you can watch our video interview with Jennifer, and we also have a look at the amazing 10th anniversary poster (designed by Mutant and artist Sara Deck) and trailer for The Babadook. To learn more about purchasing tickets to the theatrical re-release of The Babadook,...

Jennifer Kent got quite a scare when “The Babadook” premiered at Sundance in 2014.

The writer/director made her feature debut with the horror film, which IndieWire recently ranked as the ninth best horror movie of the 21st century. However, first reactions to the feature were mixed at first, at least according to Kent.

The filmmaker told Variety as part of the film’s 10-year anniversary that the Sundance debut led her to worry that she “made a big turkey” of a movie after one audience member deemed it “crap.”

“It [was] a hyper-aware moment for me, ‘Why is that woman coughing? Why is there so much silence?,'” Kent recalled of sitting in the theater during the film’s first screening. “Like, what do I want them to talk through the film? Then when the film ended, the woman in front of me said, ‘Well, that was crap.’ I remember completely shutting down and thinking,...

Stars: James McAvoy, Mackenzie Davis, Scoot McNairy, Aisling Franciosi, Alix West Lefler, Dan Hough | Written and Directed by James Watkins

Directed by James Watkins and produced by Blumhouse, Speak No Evil is an American remake of the 2002 Danish thriller of the same name (also known as Gaesterne). Exceptionally bleak and utterly devastating, the original film is one of the most chilling horror films of the last decade, and while the English language version doesn’t quite have the same impact, it’s still a deliciously nasty thriller with a stand-out performance from James McAvoy.

The film begins in Italy, where American couple Ben and Louise are on holiday with their anxious 11 year-old daughter Agnes (Alix West Lefler). They’re soon befriended by British couple Paddy and Ciara (James McAvoy and The Nightingale‘s Aisling Franciosi), whose mute young son Alfie (Dan Hough) is the same age as Agnes.

Back in London,...

Lucas Bravo is bringing one of France’s most iconic criminals to life in Mélanie Laurent’s “Freedom.”

The Amazon Prime Video feature is inspired by true story of Bruno Sulak, who infamously masterminded jewelry-store heists — sans guns — in the 1970s and early 1980s. Bravo portrays Sulak in the biopic.

Here’s more, straight from the film’s official synopsis: “Known for his charm and finesse, Sulak masterminded daring heists without firing a single shot. But as his infamy grew, so did the relentless pursuit of George Moréas (Yvan Attal), a tenacious police commissioner with a knack for outsmarting criminals. As Moréas closes in, Sulak’s escapes from prison become legendary, fueled by a lust for freedom, and a burning desire for his lover Annie (Léa Luce Busato). Amidst the chaos of their criminal spree, Sulak and Annie become the ultimate symbols of defiance in the most exhilarating game of...

Countless cinephile essays have been written about remakes. From their necessity to the “rules” they should or should not follow, not to mention the “nostalgia” component in many cases, it’s a complex subject matter in the world of cinema appreciation. While some viewers prefer remakes completely different from the original, others want something nearly identical. Nevertheless, there’s something incredibly uncommon about Speak No Evil – the fact that the original flick was released just two years ago. Is such a short time enough for an American remake of the Danish movie?

The premise remains similar, only swapping the characters’ origins and nationalities. In this remake, an American family meets a British family during a vacation in Italy, leading to an invitation for the former to visit the latter’s countryside home, far from central London. What was meant to be an idyllic weekend slowly unravels as the Americans try...

If you’ve been to the movies at any point this past summer, chances are you’ve encountered what’s possibly the most spoiler-heavy coming attractions preview of all time. Speak No Evil, the American remake of Danish filmmaker Christian Tafdrup’s brilliantly bleak 2022 film, candidly revealed major plot points via its own trailer,...

Beyond Fest 2024 announced today its complete, insanely packed slate of programming comprising 82 features, including 16 World Premieres, 4 International Premieres, 1 North American Premiere, 3 US Premieres, and 25 West Coast Premieres. Buckle up for 15 days of cinematic mayhem.

The fest returns to Los Angeles for its 12th edition spanning September 25 – October 9. Beyond Fest opens with the World Premiere of Gary Dauberman’s chilling adaptation of Stephen King’s seminal novel Salem’s Lot whilst closing night honors are bestowed upon Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Cloud with the legendary Japanese auteur joining in-person to launch a 7-film retrospective.

Genre spotlight events include the World Premiere of the brand new, never-before-seen ‘Shush Cut’ of Hush with Mike Flanagan and Kate Siegel in person, who also hosts the International Premiere of the 4K Restoration of Lake Mungo, Tobin Bell, Cary Elwes and Leigh Whannell join to debut the restored and unrated cut of their seminal shocker, Saw, and

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Beyond Fest 2024, the genre film festival based in the United States is returning for its 12th presentation with an 82-feature lineup for 15 days of cinematic spectacle! This year’s celebration includes a killer roster of firsts, special screenings, anticipated reunions, and more fan-favorite filmmakers than most cinephiles could handle for one momentous event! This year’s collection of films and creators is better than ever, so prepare yourself for a gauntlet of big-screen wonders, a popcorn diet, and random encounters with celebrities and fans alike.

Per Beyond Fest’s official press release (with some flavor text sprinkled in):

Beyond Fest, the biggest and highest-attended genre film festival in the US is excited to announce its complete slate of 2024 programming comprising 82 features, including 16 World Premieres, 4 International Premieres, 1 North American Premiere, 3 US Premieres, and 25 West Coast Premieres. After entertaining over 25,000 guests in 2023, Beyond Fest returns for its 12th edition, spanning September 25th – October 9th.

The long-awaited unveiling of Gary Dauberman’s Salem’s Lot, the west coast premiere of Terrifier 3, a 30th anniversary Speed reunion with Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock, and focus on filmmakers Sam Raimi and Shane Black are among the many highlights of the 12th edition of Beyond Fest, which will hit Los Angeles starting Sept. 25.

Other big-name titles include the international premiere of Toho’s My Hero Academia: You’re Next and the west coast premieres of The Brutalist, the immigration thriller that is coming off a Silver Lion award for best director at the Venice Film Festival. Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or winner Anora, Donald Trump origin story The Apprentice, and Marielle Heller’s Nightbitch are also on the docket And there will be the U.S. premiere of Sarah Paulson’s suspense thriller Hold Your Breath.

Billing itself the largest genre film festival in the United States,...

Nothing could be more LA than a weekend at the fabulous Forum; the celebrities court-side, the drama(s), and all those players doing it for the love of the game. No we’re not talking about the Winning Time Showtime Lakers, we’re talking the 2024 Film Independent Forum. We’re set for another jampacked year, filled with screenings, panels, workshops, one-on-one meetings and networking receptions. And all of that is jammed into two action packed days. Get your passes right here, right now.

The official schedule can be found here—but we can guarantee another great year of wide-ranging and inclusive conversation about the winning strategies for the art and business of independent film. With panels and networking events like Industry Connect, we’ll help you find the right teammates and creative juices needed to sustain a long-term career in the filmmaking arena.

“This year’s Forum will explore our...

What made Christian Tafdrup’s Danish nihilistic horror film “Speak No Evil” — an even more hopeless take on “Funny Games” and its vivisection of bourgeois manners and cruel whetting of audience appetite for carnage — so shocking was what wasn’t spoken. Namely, the Nordic social code that says you should never enter a stranger’s home especially when anxiously invited, and that the invitation alone should be a flashing red light to avoid mingling your family vacation with another’s. As American studios are almost perversely compelled to do, here “Speak No Evil” gets a safe, devoid-of-scares remake directed by James Watkins, hailing from the Blumhouse factory of mainstream scares. Watkins is an appropriate match for a remake, if it had to happen at all, given his pedigree as the director of the chilling “Eden Lake,” about a romantic weekend terrorized by delinquents without a clear motive.

But this version of “Speak No Evil,...

Although it may be hard to believe, this autumn marks one decade since the release of Jennifer Kent's The Babadook, and IFC Films is teaming up with Iconic Events Releasing to celebrate the film's 10th anniversary with a theatrical re-release beginning September 19th, complete with a new Q&a featuring Kent!

Below, you can check out the amazing 10th anniversary poster (designed by Mutant and artist Sara Deck) and trailer for The Babadook, and to learn more about purchasing tickets, visit:

https://www.iconicreleasing.com/events/the-babadook/tickets/

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In honor of the 10th anniversary of the iconic indie horror film The Babadook, the modern classic will return to theaters featuring an exclusive Q&a with writer/director Jennifer Kent.

Six years after the violent death of her husband, Amelia (Essie Davis) is at a loss. She struggles to discipline her ‘out of control’ 6 year-old, Samuel (Noah Wiseman), a...

Somehow, 10 years have already passed since the release of writer/director Jennifer Kent’s horror film The Babadook (watch it Here) – and to mark the occasion, IFC Films is teaming up with Iconic Events Releasing to give the film a theatrical re-release on September 19th! Fans who attend this re-release will also get to see an exclusive Q&a with writer/director Jennifer Kent. Tickets will be available to purchase at This Link as of August 14th. In the meantime, IFC Films and Iconic Events Releasing have put together a 10th anniversary re-release trailer, which can be seen in the embed above.

The Babadook has the following synopsis: Six years after the violent death of her husband, Amelia is at a loss. She struggles to discipline her ‘out of control’ 6 year-old, Samuel, a son she finds impossible to love. Samuel’s dreams are plagued by a monster he believes is coming to kill them both.

Brace yourselves: “The Babadook” is back.

The beloved horror feature, which marked Australian filmmaker Jennifer Kent’s directorial debut, will return to theaters courtesy of IFC Films and Iconic Events Releasing to celebrate its 10-year anniversary.

“The Babadook” infamously centers on widow Amelia (Essie Davis) who struggles to parent her 6 year-old son Samuel (Noah Wiseman), especially due to his disturbing outbursts. Yet when Samuel tells his mother that he’s been dreaming of a murderous monster, it turns out he might be trying to save them both. Enter creepy storybook “The Babadook” and Samuel’s visions just might be stranger than fiction after all.

Daniel Henshall, Tim Purcell, amd Tiffany Lyndall-Knight also star in the 2014 indie film that was produced by Kristina Ceyton and Kristian Moliere. The executive producers were Jan Chapman, Jeff Harrison, Jonathan Page, and Michael Tear. “The Babadook” featured cinematography from Radek Ładczuk and first debuted at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival.

Stephen King might not typically be the person folks look to for Western movie recommendations, but the horror legend took to Twitter/X recently to recommend an overlooked Western starring the always-great Kurt Russell. King has written some stories that are Western-adjacent, especially his "The Dark Tower" series, but generally his work is in a very different genre. The movie he recommended, however, totally makes sense, because it's probably the most horrific Western ever made.

The Western King recommended was "Bone Tomahawk," S. Craig Zahler's 2015 film that stars Patrick Wilson as Arthur O'Dwyer, whose wife Samantha (Lili Simmons) has been kidnapped by the terrifying "Troglodytes," a group of cannibalistic cave people. Russell plays Sheriff Franklin Hunt, who gets drawn into helping O'Dwyer with a ragtag group of townsfolk, including bloodthirsty lawman John Brooder (Matthew Fox) and the town's doctor, Deputy Chicory (Richard Jenkins). They head out to find Samantha...

Legendary actress Shelley Duvall has sadly passed away at the age of 75. Movie fans know her best for her stellar work as Wendy Torrance in The Shining, and for playing Olive Oyl in the big-screen version of Popeye — although her work in the Harland Williams vehicle RocketMan has yet to be fully-appreciated.

Anyone who grew up in the ‘80s or ‘90s likely also remembers Duvall as the host and creator of Faerie Tale Theatre, one of the most bizarre, charming and idiosyncratic children’s shows in the history of TV. Each episode presented an hour-long, live-action adaptation of a familiar (or occasionally not-so-familiar) fairy tale, featuring a double-take-inducing cast of Hollywood legends and upstart comic stars.

Where else could you find Elliott Gould playing a giant in Jack and the Beanstalk, or Joan Collins as a witch trying to capture Hansel and Gretel? Or Howie Mandel as a character named...

To celebrate the release of Stopmotion available on Blu-ray, DVD and digital now, we’re giving you the chance to win a copy on Blu-Ray.

The Nightingale’s Aisling Franciosi gives another outstanding turn as a talented stop-motion artist who becomes completely consumed by the grotesque world of her horrifying creations – with deadly results.

Stopmotion has garnered praise and awards galore, including the best director prize at Fantastic Fest for the hugely talented Robert Morgan’s feature directorial debut. His truly original mind-melter brings nightmares to life before your very eyes and is set for its home entertainment bow on 1 July 2024.

Following the death of her overbearing mother, stop-motion animator Ella Blake, is struggling to control her demons. She embarks on a new film project; in the hope it will channel her creativity and help her escape her problems… but it soon becomes the battleground for her sanity.

As Ella...

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Austrian gloom purveyors Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala are no strangers to masochistically bleak approaches. The Devil’s Bath matches an underlying darkness present in their previous films Goodnight Mommy and The Lodge, like a specter breathing down your neck—but their new film’s...

One of the most popular genres is definitely the Western. It's funny that westerns were popular in the 50's and 60's and then came back with a new wave of fame so many years later. One of the most popular shows of the genre is Yellowstone, but apparently there are many movies that give a more realistic portrayal of everything terrible that usually happens in a given reality.

And although the movie is far shorter than a series, we guarantee you that these 5 movies will give you much more than any show could.

1. Django Unchained (2012)

Quentin Tarantino's iconic film is definitely worthy of being number 1 on the list. Created in 2012, it tells the story of a slave named Django who is freed by a bounty hunter named King Schultz for his own purposes. Django helped Schultz and then wanted to find out where his wife was sold to. And they start their adventure.

June is already here, which means that we’re rapidly approaching 2024’s halfway point. While many of the year’s most anticipated horror releases are still on the horizon, it’s been a crowded year so far for new releases, from theatrical to streaming. So much so that the overwhelming selection of releases makes it tough to keep up.

This week’s streaming picks highlight five 2024 horror releases, most of which have quietly flown under the radar. Whether you’re looking to catch up on new titles or revisit recent faves, this week brings everything from found footage creature features to cosmic nightmares.

Here’s where you can stream them this week.

For more Stay Home, Watch Horror picks, click here.

Disappear Completely – Netflix

Tabloid photographer Santiago (Harold Torres) will go to great lengths to get the perfect shot, tact and morals be damned. His insensitivity even extends to his home life,...

In addition to the Talk to Me sequel, brothers Danny and Michael Philippou are also directing a horror movie titled Bring Her Back for A24, and Variety brings us more casting.

Billy Barratt (“Invasion”), Jonah Wren Phillips (“Sweet Tooth”), Sally-Anne Upton (“Wentworth”), Stephen Phillips (The Leftovers) and Sora Wong have joined the cast.

They join the previously announced Sally Hawkins (The Shape of Water).

Deadline’s original report detailed, “Plot details are being kept under wraps on the secretive project, which is being produced by Talk To Me duo Samantha Jennings and Kristina Ceyton from Causeway Films, whose credits also include The Babadook and The Nightingale.”

Production on Bring Her Back is expected to kick off this coming Summer.

Talk to Me was a huge hit for A24 last year, the film scaring up $92 million at the worldwide box office and earning the Philippou brothers rave reviews for their feature debut.

Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema have announced tonight that their movie sequel Mortal Kombat 2 will be fighting its way into theaters not this Halloween but next Halloween.

Mortal Kombat 2 comes to theaters October 24, 2025.

You can expect the film to release in IMAX as well as traditional theaters.

Simon McQuoid returns to the director’s seat for Mortal Kombat 2, which will feature a screenplay by Jeremy Slater (“The Exorcist,” “Moon Knight”).

The cast of fresh faces for Mortal Kombat 2 includes Martyn Ford (“The Sandman”), Desmond Chiam (“The Falcon and the Winter Soldier”), Ana Thu Nguyen (Suka), and Damon Herriman (House of Wax, The Nightingale), alongside Karl Urban as Johnny Cage, Tati Gabrielle as Jade and Adeline Rudolph as Kitana.

In 2021’s Mortal Kombat, ”Mma fighter Cole Young, accustomed to taking a beating for money, is unaware of his heritage—or why Outworld’s Emperor Shang Tsung has sent his best warrior,...

Exclusive: Gilmore Girls star Lauren Graham and The Nightingale‘s Aisling Franciosi have joined the cast of Three Point Capital and David Permut Production’s movie Twinless. They will star opposite previously announced Dylan O’Brien and James Sweeney.

Sweeney is also writing and directing the pic which follows two young men who meet in a twin bereavement support group, and form an unlikely bromance.

O’Brien and Miky Lee are EPs. Alex Astrachan, Director of Development at Permut Presentations is co-producer. Republic Pictures has worldwide rights to the film.

Three Point Capital is financing the feature with Ali Jazayeri, David Gendron and Liz Destro also serving as executive producers.

Graham is known for playing Lorelai Gilmore on the hit CW series, Gilmore Girls. She’s also starred in such movies as Flash of Genius, The Answer Man with Jeff Daniels, Evan Almighty with Steve Carell, Because I Said So opposite Diane Keaton and Mandy Moore,...

A24 is reuniting with Talk To Me co-directors Danny and Michael Philippou on the horror title Bring Her Back to star Sally Hawkins.

Plot details remain under wraps on the project, which is being produced by Causeway Films’ Samantha Jennings and Kristina Ceyton. The compnay’s credits include The Babadook, The Nightingale, and this year’s Sundance selection The Moogai.

Production is scheduled to commence this summer and at time of writing it was unclear whether A24 will introduce Bring Her Back to international buyers in Cannes.

Hawkins earned a lead actress Oscar nomination for The Weight Of Water in...

A sequel to last year’s horror hit Talk to Me is coming soon, but first up A24 has set up another original horror movie from Talk to Me filmmakers Danny and Michael Philippou.

Deadline reports that brothers Danny and Michael Philippou will direct a horror movie titled Bring Her Back for A24, with Sally Hawkins (The Shape of Water) starring!

Deadline’s report details, “Plot details are being kept under wraps on the secretive project, which is being produced by Talk To Me duo Samantha Jennings and Kristina Ceyton from Causeway Films, whose credits also include The Babadook and The Nightingale.”

Production on Bring Her Back is expected to kick off this coming Summer.

Talk to Me was a huge hit for A24 last year, the film scaring up $92 million at the worldwide box office and earning the Philippou brothers rave reviews for their feature debut.

Danny and Michael...

Exclusive: Here’s a hot one. Following their collaboration on hit horror Talk To Me, A24 and filmmakers Danny and Michael Philippou are re-teaming on original horror movie Bring Her Back, we can reveal.

The team have set two-time Oscar nominee Sally Hawkins (The Shape Of Water) to star in the movie, which is due to begin production this summer.

Plot details re being kept under wraps on the secretive project, which is being produced by Talk To Me duo Samantha Jennings and Kristina Ceyton from Causeway Films, whose credits also include The Babadook and The Nightingale.

Last summer, Talk to Me became A24’s highest-grossing horror film domestically. The Philippous’ are also developing the sequel for the studio and a documentary project inspired by their own journey into the world of international underground deathmatch wrestling.

Brit actress Hawkins has only appeared in one horror movie before back in 2007 but...

This May, AMC Networks features Season 2 of the critically acclaimed hit series Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire, starring Jacob Anderson, Sam Reid, and Delainey Hayles, the new Sundance Now crime drama Scrublands, and the return of Acorn TV’s popular Harry Wild, starring Jane Seymour, among other new series, films, and specials across its streaming services.

AMC+ continues film premieres every week including IFC Films’ American Star, starring Ian McShane (Deadwood), the critically acclaimed The Taste of Things, starring Oscar-winner Juliette Binoche (The English Patient), and Shudder Original films Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever, starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Game of Thrones), and Stopmotion, starring Aisling Franciosi.

AMC+ will also celebrate Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month with programming featuring signature series, new library additions, and a curated selection of feature films and documentaries, including Future of Film: Aapi Rising Stars, a new collection of shorts from the DC APA Film Festival,...

Aisling Franciosi (The Nightingale, Last Voyage of the Demeter) stars as stop-motion artist Ella in Stopmotion, a psychological horror movie capturing the artist’s descent through her medium.

On the latest episode of the Bloody Disgusting Podcast, the cohosts break from their usual format to dig into the meat puppets, psychological horror, and technical challenges that comes with integrating stop-motion with live-action horror.

But be warned, with the film now available on Digital and VOD before heading to Shudder on May 31, there will be spoilers!

Directed by Robert Morgan, the film stars Franciosi as Ella Blake, “a stop-motion animator who is struggling to control her demons after the loss of her overbearing mother.

“Suddenly alone in the world, she embarks upon the creation of a macabre new puppet film, which soon becomes the battleground for her sanity. As Ella’s mind starts to fracture, the characters in her animated film...

Stopmotion is a horror movie directed by Robert Morgan starring Aisling Franciosi.

“Stopmotion” is a classic horror movie built around a tired yet classic theme: madness. Visually, it’s solid, packed with innovative ideas, and skillfully blends the visual component with the engaging plot that progressively picks up pace.

While it’s not groundbreaking or going to keep you up at night with terror, it is an enjoyable watch with a psychedelic touch, reminiscent of David Lynch’s style.

Plot

A young girl lives with her mother, both of them working on an animation film. When the mother suddenly suffers a debilitating shock, the girl starts to film her own animation movie with a strange girl who writes a chilling script about an “ash man.”

About the Movie Stopmotion

An intriguing film that successfully maintains suspense and efficiently draws the viewer into a web of uncertainty between reality and fiction,...

Four new cast members join Kevin Bacon and Jennifer Nettles on Blumhouse TV’s “The Bondsman,” an action horror series for Amazon’s Prime Video. That includes actor Damon Herriman.

Variety reports that Herriman, Beth Grant, Maxwell Jenkins and Jolene Purdy have all joined the show in series regular roles.

The action horror series “centers on Hub Halloran (Kevin Bacon), a backwoods bounty hunter who comes back from the dead with an unexpected second chance at life, love, and a nearly-forgotten musical career — only to find that his old job now has a demonic new twist.”

“The Bondsman” was created by Grainger David (The Chair), who will also executive produce. Erik Oleson will serve as showrunner and executive producer via CrimeThink.

Jennifer Nettles will play Hub Halloran’s ex-wife, Maryanne. Beth Grant will play Kitty, the mother of Hub Halloran. Herriman will appear as Lucky, who is described as “the...

Sons of Anarchy creator Kurt Sutter is going from the fictional town of Charming to the plains of Oregon for his next ambitious series, The Abandons. The forthcoming Netflix Western adds six cast members to its roster today, with Lucas Till, Diana Silvers, Lamar Johnson, Aisling Franciosi, and Natalia del Riego.

Created and executive produced by Kurt Sutter, The Abdandons “follows a group of diverse, outlier families pursuing their Manifest Destiny in 1850s Oregon, as a corrupt force of wealth and power, coveting their land, tries to force them out. These abandoned souls, the kind of lost souls living on the fringe of society, unite their tribes to form a family and fight back. In this bloody process, “justice” is stretched beyond the boundaries of the law.” (via Deadline)

Lucas Till plays Garret Van Ness, with Diana Silvers portraying Dahlia Teller. Nick Robinson steps into the role of Elias Teller,...

Kurt Sutter’s upcoming western drama series “The Abandons” at Netflix has added six new cast members, Variety has learned.

Nick Robinson, Diana Silvers, Lucas Till, Lamar Johnson, Aisling Franciosi, and Natalia del Riego have all joined the series.

They will star alongside previously announced star Lena Headey as well as Gillian Anderson. The official description of the series states:

“As a group of diverse, outlier families pursue their Manifest Destiny in 1850s Oregon, a corrupt force of wealth and power, coveting their land, tries to force them out. These abandoned souls, the kind of lost souls living on the fringe of society, unite their tribes to form a family and fight back. In this bloody process, ‘justice’ is stretched beyond the boundaries of the law.”

Headey will play Fiona Nolan, while Anderson will play Constance Van Ness. Robinson will play Elias Teller, while Silvers will play Dahlia Teller. Till will play Garret Van Ness,...

The Abandons, Kurt Sutter’s Western action drama for Netflix, has added six as series regulars: Lucas Till (MacGyver), Nick Robinson (Maid), Diana Silvers (Booksmart), Lamar Johnson (The Last of Us), Aisling Franciosi (The Nightingale), and Natalia del Riego (Hail Mary).

Till plays Garret Van Ness, with Robinson as Elias Teller, Silvers as Dahlia Teller, Johnson as Albert Mason, Franciosi as Trisha Van Ness, and Del Riego as Lilla Belle. As previously announced, Lena Heady and Gillian Anderson lead the cast, as Fiona Nolan and Constance Van Ness, respectively.

Created and exec produced by Sutter, who also serves as showrunner, The Abandons follows a group of diverse, outlier families pursuing their Manifest Destiny in 1850s Oregon, as a corrupt force of wealth and power, coveting their land, tries to force them out. These abandoned souls, the kind of lost souls living on the fringe of society,...

Up next from actress Aisling Franciosi (The Nightingale, Last Voyage of the Demeter) is the horror movie Stopmotion, which sees an artist fighting for her sanity with her morbid creations.

Stopmotion releases in theaters on February 23 before heading to Shudder on May 31, 2024.

Directed by Robert Morgan, the film stars Franciosi as Ella Blake, “a stop-motion animator who is struggling to control her demons after the loss of her overbearing mother. Suddenly alone in the world, she embarks upon the creation of a macabre new puppet film, which soon becomes the battleground for her sanity. As Ella’s mind starts to fracture, the characters in her animated film take on a terrifying life of their own, and the unleashed power of her imagination threatens to destroy her.”

Bloody Disgusting spoke with Aisling Franciosi about her role in Stopmotion and her relationship with the genre. What draws her to horror and the intense roles she often plays?...

Aisling Franciosi has done drama and horror, and now, the breakout Irish-Italian star is trying her hand at not one, but two comedies. What else can this indie actress do?

Well, aside from mastering the “addictive” hobby of stop-motion animation for the aptly-titled horror film “Stopmotion,” Franciosi is eyeing a producing debut in the indie film space. It’s all dependent on connecting with the perfect project, something that Franciosi previously found with A24’s “God’s Creatures” which landed her a BIFA nomination alongside co-star Paul Mescal, and Jennifer Kent’s Venice award-winning “The Nightingale,” for which Franciosi was nominated in the Breakthrough Actor category at the Gotham Awards.

“Thankfully, I’ve got an agent who knows me well, and she sent me the script for [‘Stopmotion’] saying, ‘This is absolutely bonkers, but I think you’ll love it.’ And I did as soon as I read it,” Franciosi told...

Aisling Franciosi (The Nightingale, Last Voyage of the Demeter) stars as a stop-motion animator struggling to control her demons in Stopmotion, the feature debut by director Robert Morgan releasing in theaters this week. The film releases in theaters on February 23 before heading to Shudder on May 31, 2024.

Stopmotion director Robert Morgan, who co-wrote the script with Robin King, is best known for the stop-motion shorts “Bobby Yeah” and “D is for Deloused” in ABCs of Death 2. In Stopmotion, the BAFTA-nominated filmmaker/animator infuses the painstaking process of stop-motion animation with visceral horror bolstered by eerie meat puppets and an immersive sound design.

Bloody Disgusting spoke with Morgan ahead of the film’s release about the unique stop-motion creations and bringing them to life on screen.

The concept behind Stopmotion was born of the simple desire to see stop-motion animators depicted on screen and snowballed from there.

Morgan tells Bloody Disgusting, “I...

Horror often presents a literal interpretation of artists giving themselves over to their art, whether through supernatural suffering or psychological unraveling. Stopmotion, the feature directorial debut by BAFTA-nominated filmmaker/animator Robert Morgan, chooses the latter. While it may adhere to a familiar path of an artist’s unraveling, Morgan finds inventive and creative ways to mine visceral horror through the uncanny, unsettling nature of stop-motion animation and its painstaking process.

Ella Blake (The Nightingale‘s Aisling Franciosi) is a talented stop-motion animator who longs to escape the shadow of her mother, Suzanne (Stella Gonet), a reputable legend in the world of stop-motion animation. With Suzanne’s health deteriorating and her hands no longer functional, Ella’s artistic aspirations are put on the backburner as she’s forced to tend to her ailing but overbearing mom and act as her hands through the meticulous work of stop-motion. It seems everything in...

In Robert Morgan’s feature-length debut, Stopmotion, animator Ella Blake (Aisling Fransciosi) vows to finish the work of her ailing mother, Suzanne (Stella Gonet). She shuts herself away from the world in an old apartment building, in total dedication to the painstaking process of moving sculpted figures a centimeter at a time. But she soon begins a new work altogether at the behest of a spooky little neighbor girl, only for the unsettling art they create and Ella’s perception of reality to bleed together. Pity, though, that they don’t bleed together enough, as the macabre dream logic that many of Stopmotion’s sequences employ is too often undermined by plot rhythms familiar from so many horror films about trauma.

Morgan swiftly demonstrates his animator’s eye, communicating his ideas with the quickness and clarity of a short film. The very first scene tells us everything about Ella and...

Aisling Franciosi (The Nightingale, Last Voyage of the Demeter) stars in the upcoming horror movie Stopmotion, and we’re serving up an exclusive sneak peek clip this morning.

Stopmotion releases in theaters on February 23 before heading to Shudder on May 31, 2024. Begin this macabre descent into madness by watching an exclusive clip below.

Directed by Robert Morgan, the film stars Franciosi as Ella Blake, “a stop-motion animator who is struggling to control her demons after the loss of her overbearing mother.

“Suddenly alone in the world, she embarks upon the creation of a macabre new puppet film, which soon becomes the battleground for her sanity. As Ella’s mind starts to fracture, the characters in her animated film take on a terrifying life of their own, and the unleashed power of her imagination threatens to destroy her.”

Stopmotion also stars Stella Gonet and Tom York.

“IFC and Shudder are ecstatic to...

Horror hits the ground running in 2024, and judging by the current release slate, the genre has no intention of slowing down anytime soon. 2024’s horror slate is densely packed already, and it doesn’t even touch on the yet-to-be-announced features and surprise festival gems.

Welcome to Bloody Disgusting’s 2024 Horror Preview.

How massive will 2024 be for horror? If this preview of the year’s looming horror offerings is any indication, horror fans may be spoiled for choice. Of course, expect some release dates to shift and many surprises yet to get announced in the coming months. In other words, this is only the tip of the iceberg.

Here are 51 horror movies we’re excited to check out in 2024.

Mayhem! – January 5

Xavier Gens, the filmmaker behind New French Extremity entry Frontier(s), is kicking off the new year with a violent actioner follows a boxer’s quest for bone-breaking, merciless revenge.

It’s been two years since the release of the live action Mortal Kombat reboot, and a sequel is on the way soon. Filming on Mortal Kombat 2 actually kicked off earlier this summer, you may recall, but it didn’t last long due to the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes going on at the time. But have no fear, because production on the movie sequel gets back underway real soon.

Responding to a report this week that suggested Mortal Kombat 2 will begin filming in early 2024, producer Todd Garner notes on Twitter that it’s actually kicking off even sooner.

“This is not true. We are filming before then,” Garner teases.

He writes in a follow-up tweet, “I promise I will keep the Mk Kommunity posted as soon as I have info on start date, etc. Everyone else is just speculating… or posting for clicks.”

This is not true. We are filming before then…...

Daniel Negret served as Head Gear’s chief executive officer since June 2021

Australia’s Causeway Films, which recently produced A24 hit Talk To Me, is opening a new office in London and has appointed Daniel Negret as chief executive officer.

Negret joins from film financier Head Gear Films where he served as chief operating officer since June 2021. During his tenure, he oversaw the company’s involvement in over 60 projects including Talk To Me, How To Have Sex and Bandit as well as helping build Head Gear’s financial packaging and executive producing arm.

From the end of the month, Negret...

Catalonia’s annual celebration of strange screen tales included a murderous birthmark, weretigers and a therapist overcome with ancient evil

At this year’s International Fantastic film festival of Catalonia, I got bitten all over. Not by vampires or werewolves, alas, but by mosquitoes, which took advantage of the unseasonably hot temperatures on Spain’s Costa del Garraf to transform my body into a throbbing, misshapen mass, rather like William Hurt in Altered States. Still, this helped me feel a kinship with the protagonists of this year’s exercises in body horror, many of them bearing the imprint of Shudder, a streaming service available in the UK, Ireland and Germany but not elsewhere in Europe. But it was one of their titles – Argentinian director Demián Rugna’s When Evil Lurks – that became the first Latin American movie in the festival’s 56-year history to win the Sitges award for best feature film.

Causeway Films, the Australian film production house behind recent breakout “Talk to Me,” has opened a U.K. operation.

The company has hired Daniel Negret, formerly of Head Gear Films, as its CEO.

Causeway Films was established by producers Kristina Ceyton and Samantha Jennings in 2014, launching with Jennifer Kent’s Sundance hit “The Babadook.” It followed that by producing Kent’s follow up feature “The Nightingale,” which won the special jury prize at the Venice Film Festival in 2019.

Innovative horror film, “Talk to Me,” from filmmaking duo Danny and Michael Philippou screened in Sundance, Berlin and SXSW 2023 and was acquired by A24. It became A24’s top genre release in North America with a box office of $48.1 million to date, taking the film’s global box office to over $89 million.

In 2020-21 Causeway completed four other features. These included “You Won’t Be Alone,” by the Serbian Australian director Goran Stolevski...

Exclusive: Coming off the breakout box office performance of horror hit Talk To Me, Australian production company Causeway Films has expanded internationally opening a London office and appointing Daniel Negret as its Chief Executive Officer.

Negret will take up the role on October 30th and be based in London, with frequent visits to Australia and LA.

Negret joins from prolific UK film financier Head Gear Films, where he served as the company’s Chief Operating Officer overseeing operations including production finance, strategy, business development, legal and business affairs and marketing.

During his time at Head Gear, the Colombian-born exec oversaw the financier’s involvement in more than 60 productions, including Talk To Me, How To Have Sex and Bandit. Negret also helped create the company’s financial packaging and executive-producing arm. He previously worked at Ingenious, Olsberg Spi and Merrill Lynch, and recently wrote and produced horror feature Shaman in Ecuador.