Directed by Jeremy Saulnier and now streaming on Netflix, the film stars Aaron Pierre, Don Johnson, and AnnaSophia Robb.
Nathan Tape’s Off Ramp, starring Jon Oswald, Scott Turner Schofield, Ashley Smith, Jared Bankens, Reed Diamond, and Miles Dolea hits theaters and digital on September 6th. We have an exclusive clip from the Juggalo genre-bender to share with you today. You will find it down below. Trey, an ex-con and Juggalo, embarks on a wild journey with his devoted best friend, Silas, to the Gathering of the Juggalos. Armed with drugs and dreams of horrorcore rap stardom, they are presented with a chance to perform at the event, and a shot at becoming Jugga-famous. Their plans take a dark turn when they clash with a corrupt sheriff and get caught in a dangerous scheme orchestrated by a fellow Juggalo turned sadistic criminal. As they…
An exorcism goes horribly wrong and unleashes a vengeful spirit that has been locked up for centuries. Here’s the problem with digging around in your backyard, anywhere in the World, but especially the UK. The odds of finding buried treasure out there are slim to none. The odds of finding a skull with a sharpened crucifix embedded in it? Probably also slim, but for sake of Stephen Roach’s exorcism horror flick, The Crucifix, highly likely. This is where we find Sara and Fergus, our ill-fated young couple, a grieving couple who move to Scotland to make a new start. Fergus pokes around the backyard and discovers an ancient artifact in their garden which unleashes an evil spirit who possesses the wife resulting in…
I still remember the middle school classroom where I learned to type, on (dating myself here) one of the early generation Apple computers. My mother had gone to the same school; she remembers when it was full of typewriters. But the computer age had begun, and this was how we learned. Just a few years shy of the first typing program, but I remember using one in high school, likely Mavis Beacon, and it’s hard to forget that iconic face that helped me learn to do, part of what I’m doing right now, so essential to my work life. Seeking Mavis Beacon might begin as an internet mystery; a desire by the filmmaker Jazmin Jones to uncover who was the face of one of the…
Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder and Jenna Ortega star in Time Burton’s worthy, worthwhile sequel.
Benedict Wall, Florence Noble, Jessica Grace Smith, Michelle Ang, Shadon Meredith, Jonny Brugh, Cameron Rhodes, Chloe White, and Lucky Lee Morton star.
The Toronto International Film Festival, now in its 49th year, was called the Festival of Festivals prior to just being shortened down to its four letter acronym, TIFF. The festival still is adhering to its original mandate of screening the best of the year’s festival circuit entries (Sundance, Cannes, Berlin, and so forth) while also acting as a late summer Hollywood awards-buzz launch, a showcase for Canada’s domestic production, and more than a little bit of celebrity-gazing north of the US border. With nearly 300 feature films, and a host of industry events and parties within its 10 day window starting on September 5, 2024, there are several ‘types of festival’ overlapping each other, and many ways to focus things down to…
Quebec filmmaker Pascal Plante, known for Fake Tattoos and the critically hailed Nadia, Butterfly, shifts his creative gaze to darker territories in his latest offering, Red Rooms, which provides an intriguing spin on the ubiquitous serial killer genre. The story orbits around tech-savvy Kelly-Anne (Juliette Gariépy), a seemingly successful woman with a semi-professional modeling career and a knack for online poker. Yet, her societal image is marred by her unwavering fascination with serial killer Ludovic Chevalier (Maxwell McCabe-Lokos), aka the Demon of Rosemont. Kelly-Anne’s obsession appears to verge on pathological, as she attends his court proceedings with keen interest. The film introduces Chevalier not as an active player but a fringe element, his gruesome deeds serving as the narrative fulcrum. Kelly-Anne has become a serial…
In part 1 of our interview, Red Rooms filmmaker Pascal Plante talked extensively about how individual scenes were designed and shot. In part 2, we got more into the musical score and the ethics of making his thriller. Red Rooms opens Friday in limited release via Utopia. You were just talking about the opening where she [Kelly-Anne played by Juliette Gariépy] wakes up. Part of what immediately drew me in is the score, that incredible classical piece that Dominique [Plante] wrote. And I was curious, did you two talk about sort of the genres and the types of music that he would create beforehand, or did he come up with all of that and then bring it to you? Because it goes from classical to…
IFC Films, Shudder and RLJE Films – the holy genre trinity from AMC Networks – have collectively announced their slate of theatrical and streaming releases over the next four months. In a couple weeks IFC is re-releasing Jennifer Kent’s terrific debut feature film, The Babadook, on its tenth anniversary. Festival fave from SXSW and Fantasia Azrael is coming at the end of the month. We’ll also get back to back months of Nick Frost horror flicks with Black Cab in November and Get Away in December. The gallery below is far more interesting than the concise list that follows. It has trailers where available. THE BABADOOK – In Theaters Starting September 19 10 Year Anniversary Re-Release Written and Directed by Jennifer Kent…