Ruth Paxton

‘A Banquet’ Clip – Things Get Weird During a Blood Moon [Video]

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After premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival last fall, IFC Midnight is bringing first-time filmmaker Ruth Paxton‘s A Banquet to theaters and VOD platforms on February 18. In A Banquet… “Widowed mother Holly (Sienna Guillory) is radically tested when her teenage daughter Betsey (Jessica Alexander) experiences a profound enlightenment and insists that her body is no longer […]

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‘A Banquet’ Poster Could Starve for Family [Exclusive]

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After premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival last fall, IFC Midnight is bringing first-time filmmaker Ruth Paxton‘s A Banquet to theaters and VOD platforms next month. Bloody has an exclusive look at brand new art that offers a difficult choice: family or famine? Described as “a slow-burning psychological horror that layers apocalyptic elements underneath familial […]

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It’s Family or Famine in IFC Midnight’s Horror Movie ‘A Banquet’ This February [Trailer]

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First-time filmmaker Ruth Paxton‘s A Banquet was acquired by IFC Midnight in the wake of its Toronto International Film Festival premiere, and it’s coming home next month. Indiewire reports that A Banquet is coming to “select theaters and on digital platforms on February 18.” Indiewire also scored the trailer today, which we’ve embedded below. Interesting to […]

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[TIFF Review] ‘A Banquet’ Tests Maternal Bonds and Patience in Simmering Psychological Horror

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Existing somewhere at the crossroads of Jack Ketchum’s “The Box” and Rose Glass’s Saint Maud lies A Banquet. A strange affliction wreaks havoc on the lives of a family still on the mend from tragedy. Ruth Paxton’s feature debut favors a slow simmering atmosphere in a psychodrama that sees a family in psychological deterioration. One that can test the […]

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Clip from IFC Midnight’s ‘A Banquet’ Invites You to a Tense and Uncomfortable Family Dinner

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First-time filmmaker Ruth Paxton‘s A Banquet will make its World Premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival this Friday, and IFC Midnight has debuted the first clip today. IFC previews, “This slow-burning psychological horror explores the ferocity of maternal love, psychology of power, and the questions of female madness and faith. The film uses subtle supernatural […]

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