Jaume Collet-Serra’s Orphan introduced the world to modern horror icon Esther back in 2009 and Isabelle Fuhrman reprised the role for 2022 prequel Orphan: First Kill, and we haven’t seen the last of Esther just yet. Lionsgate has officially announced Orphan 3! Variety exclusively reports, “The third film in the cult Orphan horror franchise has […]
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William Brent Bell (The Boy, Separation) stepped into the director’s chair for Orphan: First Kill, a prequel film that solidified Esther’s killer icon status. The filmmaker revealed that he’s actively developing a follow-up, ensuring Esther’s killer hijinks will continue. “We’re developing a third one now. The franchise’s rulebook has been opened up to where anything is […]
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Director William Brent Bell (Orphan: First Kill) is back this week with brand new horror movie Lord of Misrule, a folk horror movie starring Tuppence Middleton and Ralph Ineson (The Witch, Green Knight). Magnet Releasing will release Lord of Misrule in theaters and on VOD on December 8, 2023. Tom de Ville’s (The Quiet Ones) script has been said to echo The Wicker Man and Midsommar. Like The Wicker […]
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Filmmaker William Brent Bell‘s latest, Lord of Misrule, bears all the familiar earmarks of folk horror. A peculiar town with Pagan roots, bonfires, masked denizens reveling in harvest rituals, and a pious Christian at the center, scrambling to make sense of it all. It’s that well-trodden but visually lush path that serves as refreshing misdirection in a new […]
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There’s a familiar face leading the folk horror in Orphan: First Kill director William Brent Bell‘s Lord of Misrule. Ralph Ineson (The Witch, Green Knight) takes a villainous turn in Bell’s latest, playing a character initially written as a woman. Magnet Releasing will release Lord of Misrule in theaters and on VOD on December 8, 2023. The film follows “Rebecca Holland (Tuppence Middleton), who has […]
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Director William Brent Bell (Orphan: First Kill) is back with brand new horror movie Lord of Misrule this week, and we’ve got an exclusive clip from the folk horror nightmare. Magnet Releasing will release Lord of Misrule in theaters and on VOD on December 8, 2023. Watch the clip below and find the previously released trailer underneath. The […]
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There’s a familiar face leading the folk horror in Orphan: First Kill director William Brent Bell‘s Lord of Misrule. Ralph Ineson (The Witch, Green Knight) presides over an eerie bonfire surrounded by masked participants in the brand new trailer for the upcoming release. Magnet Releasing will release Lord of Misrule in theaters and on VOD […]
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Bloody Disgusting has the first look image from contemporary folk horror Lord of Misrule, hailing from William Brent Bell, the filmmaker behind The Devil Inside, The Boy, Brahms, and the recent Orphan prequel. “Lord of Misrule is a pagan horror story set in a rural English village, where Rebecca Holland has recently taken over the parish […]
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Released in 2016, William Brent Bell‘s (Orphan: First Kill) horror movie The Boy introduced the character of Brahms, a creepy doll that ended up being a red herring in the film. The doll itself, we learn in the final act, isn’t actually cursed or able to come to life, but rather a man living in […]
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William Brent Bell‘s Orphan: First Kill, now playing in select theaters and streaming on Paramount+, is a follow-up we never expected to see, bringing back Isabelle Fuhrman for a prequel to the 2009 movie. Clever production techniques allow for Fuhrman to once again play Esther, a murderous 30-year-old who at first glance appears to be […]
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The final act of 2009’s Orphan revealed a shocking twist; the adopted 9-year-old Esther (Isabelle Fuhrman) wasn’t a child but a murderous 33-year-old with hypopituitarism. Over a decade later, Esther returns to slay again. Instead of an older, wiser Esther, Orphan: First Kill rewinds the clock to follow the exploits of the childlike killer’s first adoptive family. The […]
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William Brent Bell, the filmmaker behind The Devil Inside, The Boy, Brahms, and the forthcoming Orphan prequel, has just started filming his contemporary folk horror Lord of Misrule, which began development some two years ago, reports Deadline. “The film is set in a rural English village and film follows Rebecca Holland who has recently taken […]