Outside of 2019’s Parasite, which I don’t consider a horror film, I’m not sure the genre has ever won as big as it just did at this year’s Festival International du Film de Cannes. It was announced over the weekend that Titane, director Julia Ducournau‘s hotly-anticipated follow-up to Raw, won the coveted Palme d’Or, the […]
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First ‘Titane’ Reviews: Julia Ducournau Shocks With “Controversial”, “Gory”, and “Ballsy” Body Horror
The car puns are turned to eleven with Raw director Julia Ducournau‘s latest shocker, Titane (acquired by NEON), which just premiered at the ongoing Cannes festival to a mixed-bag of reviews. The program says the plot follows a series of unexplained crimes where a father is reunited with the son who has been missing for […]
‘Speak No Evil’ Poster Art Kidnapped and Screams for Help
TrustNordisk, who has been behind some really cool films from Lake of Death to Frost and Breaking Surface, just released a striking piece of art from director and screenwriter Christian Tafdrup’s upcoming psychological horror, Speak No Evil. In the film, which sounds like it flips the home invasion subgenre on its head… “On a vacation in Toscana, a Danish family instantly […]
A Mysterious Fog Covers Earth in Sci-Fi Thriller ‘Rubikon’ [Trailer]
The Playmaker Munich has shared with Variety the first teaser trailer for its upcoming sci-fi movie Rubikon, which calls to mind Stanley Kubrick’s 2001, Ridley Scott’s Alien, and Duncan Jones’ recent sci-fi gem Moon. “In the film, following a catastrophe on Earth, the planet is covered in a mysterious toxic fog.” “The crew of the […]
Samuel Goldwyn Pays ‘The Toll’ Out of the Virtual Cannes Market [Image]
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired U.S. rights to the Welsh crime thriller The Toll from Great Point Media out of last month’s Pre-Cannes Screenings, reports ScreenDaily. Welsh filmmaker Ryan Andrew Hooper’s directorial debut is “a darkly comic thriller about a lone toll booth operator with a past that is fast catching up with him.” Kill List’s Michael […]
Secrets Get Buried on the Sales Art for ‘The Twin’, Starring ‘Lights Out’s Teresa Palmer
Australian actor Teresa Palmer will star as a young mother plagued by the violent death of one of her twins in the upcoming The Twin, which is being shown to buyers at the ongoing virtual Cannes market. Variety shares today the official market sales art for the film, which was directed by Finnish filmmaker Taneli Mustonen of Lake Bodom fame. […]
1091 Pictures Acquires LGBTQ Horror ‘Lair’ For North America
Storyboard Media has sold North American rights for Lair to Hunt for the Wilderpeople and American Animals distributor 1091 Pictures, writes Deadline. In the film, “A fractured LGBTQ family are forced to face their demons, metaphorically and literally, as they unwittingly become embroiled in a man’s attempt to prove the existence of the supernatural in order […]
‘Slumber Party Massacre’ Sales Art Reveals The Driller Killer!
You know the drill! Shout! Studios, who was behind the remake of David Cronenberg’s Rabid, has also produced a reimagining of Roger Corman’s 1982 cult classic Slumber Party Massacre. Bloody Disgusting previously shared the above first-ever image from the new take that was directed by Danishka Esterhazy, the filmmaker behind the wild and crazy Banana Splits […]
Haunted House Horror ‘The Turn of the Key’ Getting Big Screen Adaptation
Working Title (Last Night in Soho) has optioned rights to best-selling author Ruth Ware’s haunted house thriller The Turn of the Key, Deadline reports out of the virtual Cannes market. “The Turn of the Key tells the story of a young woman who stumbles across an ad to take on a position as a live-in nanny at […]