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‘Brides’ – Maika Monroe and ‘Watcher’ Director Chloe Okuno Re-team for Vampire Movie

October 30, 2024 John Squires Brides, Chloe Okuno, Maika Monroe, Movies

Fresh off working together on last year’s Hitchcockian thriller Watcher, Maika Monroe (Longlegs) and director Chloe Okuno (V/H/S/94: Storm Drain) will reteam for Brides. Deadline reports, “The [horror] film is currently in pre-production and is set to start shooting in Spring 2025. Chloe Okuno is directing from a screenplay she penned.” Here’s the synopsis: “Set […]

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Mary Elizabeth Winstead Joining Maika Monroe in ‘The Hand That Rocks the Cradle’ Remake

October 11, 2024 John Squires Maika Monroe, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Movies, The Hand That Rocks The Cradle

We recently learned that Maika Monroe has been set to star in a fresh take on The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, and Deadline reports this week that Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Birds of Prey) is now in talks to co-star in the upcoming remake for 20th Century Studios. Michelle Garza Cervera, who came onto the scene last […]

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9 Things We Learned from the ‘Longlegs’ Commentary Track

October 3, 2024 Alex DiVincenzo Home Video, Longlegs, Maika Monroe, Movies, Nicolas Cage, Osgood Perkins

The highest-grossing independent film of the year, Longlegs stars Maika Monroe as an FBI agent in pursuit of the titular serial killer, played by Nicolas Cage. Among the special features on the just-released physical media editions is a refreshingly forthright audio commentary by writer-director Osgood Perkins. Here are nine things I learned from the Longlegs […]

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Maika Monroe Starring in ‘The Hand That Rocks the Cradle’ Remake

September 26, 2024 John Squires Maika Monroe, Michelle Garza Cervera, Movies, The Hand That Rocks The Cradle

Fresh off this year’s box office hit Longlegs, star Maika Monroe has been set to star in a fresh take on The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, THR reports this afternoon. Michelle Garza Cervera, who came onto the scene last year with the incredible horror movie Huesera: The Bone Woman, will direct the new movie […]

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‘Longlegs’ Scores Highest Opening Weekend for an Original Horror Movie This Year

July 15, 2024 John Squires Longlegs, Maika Monroe, Movies, Nicolas Cage, Osgood Perkins

Driven by rave reviews and one hell of a marketing campaign, NEON’s horror movie Longlegs has already proven to be a massive box office success story in the first few days of release. NEON released Longlegs into 2,510 theaters here in the United States over the weekend, and the acclaimed horror movie scared up a […]

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From ‘It Follows’ to ‘Longlegs’: Maika Monroe Has Defined a Decade of Horror

July 11, 2024 Jenn Adams Editorials, Greta, It Follows, Longlegs, Maika Monroe, Sponsored, The Guest, Villains, Watcher

When we think about legendary Scream Queens from the world of horror, it’s usually iconic final girls or empowered assassins who jump to mind – women like Jamie Lee Curtis and Sarah Michelle Gellar most associated with an iconic role despite a multitude of successful genre titles in their extensive catalog. While these beloved actresses […]

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‘Longlegs’ Final Trailer Promises One of the Year’s Scariest Movies is Nearly Here

July 1, 2024 Meagan Navarro Longlegs, Maika Monroe, Movies, Nicolas Cage, Osgood Perkins

NEON has been playing the long game with their cryptic marketing campaign for Longlegs the past few months, but today brings us one step closer to the end, with the final trailer unleashing to promise unrelenting terror. Longlegs heads to theaters on July 12. Watch the new, final trailer below, emphasizing the scariness ahead. The upcoming serial killer […]

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Maika Monroe Says ‘They Follow’ Will Be a Bigger, Darker and Crazier Sequel

June 17, 2024 John Squires It Follows, Maika Monroe, Movies, They Follow

Announced earlier this year, NEON is behind an upcoming sequel to the horror hit It Follows, with writer/director David Robert Mitchell back to direct follow-up They Follow. Maika Monroe (It Follows, Longlegs) will reprise her role of Jay Height, which earned her an Empire Award nomination, and she teases the sequel in a new chat […]

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‘Longlegs’ Review – Oz Perkins’ Latest Gets Under Your Skin and Festers Like a Putrid Nightmare

June 10, 2024July 12, 2024 Meagan Navarro featured, Longlegs, Maika Monroe, Nicolas Cage, Oz Perkins, Reviews, topnews

The concept of evil gets explored often in horror in various ways, but very few films manage to immerse viewers in that evil so wholly that it starts to feel like you’re watching something taboo and cursed. The latest by writer/director Oz Perkins (Gretel & Hansel, The Blackcoat’s Daughter), Longlegs gets under your skin and […]

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‘The Stranger’ – Quibi Series Starring Maika Monroe Has Been Re-Cut into a Feature Film for Hulu

March 13, 2024 John Squires Maika Monroe, Movies, The Stranger, Veena Sud

Remember Quibi? The short-lived, bite-sized entertainment experiment gave us some horror gems including a brand new horror anthology series from Sam Raimi, most of which is currently unavailable to watch anywhere. But there’s good news for one of Quibi’s projects this week, as Veena Sud’s series “The Stranger” has found new life as a Hulu […]

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Craving Camp In Neil Jordan’s May/December Stalker Film ‘Greta’ [Horror Queers Podcast]

March 4, 2024 Joe Lipsett Chloe Grace Moretz, Colm Feore, Greta, Horror Queers, Horror Queers Podcast, isabelle huppert, LGBT, LGBT Horror, lgbtq, LGBTQ Horror, Maika Monroe, Neil Jordan, Podcasts, Stephen Rea

Box Play We’ve spent February discussing Albert Lewin’s 1945 adaptation of The Portrait of Dorian Gray (listen), the perfectly serviceable remake of Friday the 13th (listen), and Pedro Almodóvar’s controversial 2011 thriller The Skin I Live In (listen). Now we’re wrapping up the month with Neil Jordan’s wacky May/December stalker film, Greta (2018). In the […]

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‘Longlegs’ – Four Eerie Posters Bring Us One Step Closer to Nicolas Cage Serial Killer Movie’s Trailer

January 30, 2024 John Squires Longlegs, Maika Monroe, Neon, news, Nicolas Cage, Osgood Perkins

NEON’s mysterious marketing campaign for the upcoming Longlegs has easily been the best horror movie marketing of 2024 thus far, and this week they’re ramping it up even further. Yes, those cryptic teasers we’ve been sharing across the last several weeks were all for Longlegs, and today we’ve been provided with four pieces of official […]

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NEON Slams an Axe into Eerie Third Teaser for Mysterious 2024 Horror Movie [Exclusive]

January 19, 2024 John Squires featured, Maika Monroe, may all your legs be long, Movies, Neon, Nicolas Cage, topnews, Videos, what are you still doing here

Distributor NEON has spent the first few weeks of 2024 teasing one of the horror movies they’ll be unleashing this year, and the campaign has been particularly interesting because they’re not telling us what movie they’re even promoting. Some think it’s the Hunter Schafer-starring Cuckoo, while most believe it’s the Nicolas Cage-starring Longlegs. Our best […]

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‘They Follow’ – David Robert Mitchell Directing ‘It Follows’ Sequel Starring Maika Monroe!

October 30, 2023 John Squires David Robert Mitchell, It Follows, Maika Monroe, Movies, They Follow

Award-winning studio NEON has announced They Follow, the long awaited sequel to the modern horror classic It Follows (2014), from visionary writer/director David Robert Mitchell and starring Maika Monroe. Bloody Disgusting has learned that Monroe will reprise her role of Jay Height, which earned her an Empire Award® nomination for It Follows. In the first movie, Monroe’s […]

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‘It Follows’ 4K Ultra HD Review – Modern Classic Holds Up Nearly 10 Years Later

October 2, 2023 Alex DiVincenzo David Robert Mitchell, Home Video, It Follows, Maika Monroe, Movies, Reviews, Second Sight Films

Cinephiles tend to be reluctant to call a new movie a favorite, instead favoring tried and true paradigms, but It Follows is a rare contemporary film that immediately struck a wide swath of viewers — myself included — as a modern classic upon its release in 2014. Comfortingly familiar yet invigoratingly fresh, I’ve only come […]

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