Dafne Keen, Sophie Nélisse, and Nick Frost star in Corin Hardy’s horror thriller, now streaming on Shudder.
Nore is a self-styled femme fatale who refuses to spend a night alone — even if it means relying on strangers. Without a home of her own, she drifts from one pub rendezvous to the next, seducing admiring regulars. But one evening, when her charms fall flat, she runs into Jonna, a reserved medical student and former classmate. The key art for Hille Nordan’s erotic drama, Easy Girl, is a masterclass in contrast and tactility. Black and white skin, upside-down framing, and the nylon stocking at just the moment of tension where it hangs up on the heel. The soft focus, high-grain, earthy tones in the background provide ample negative space for the lipstick title typography, and a centred credit block, which eschews the typical…
A new, Spanish horror shingle, Noir Hollow, will be introduced at the Marché du Film’s Fantastic Pavilion, where it will present its first feature film, The House of Monsters.
For the big-brained talking sheep of director Kyle Balda (Despicable Me 3, Minions: The Rise of Gru, Minions) and writer Craig Mazin (The Last of Us, Chernobyl, The Hangover Parts II-III)’s adaptation of German author Leonie Swann’s 2005 novel Three Bags Full, The Sheep Detectives, heaven and hell don’t exist. Neither does purgatory nor its equivalent. Instead, the sheep fervently believe not in death or dying per se, but in being reborn as clouds. It’s a comforting fiction they willingly embrace. Anything else, including the reality of sheep-as-food for human consumption, isn’t a reality they can face, let alone embrace. Heavy thematically, no doubt, especially for a film marketed as an all-ages, family-oriented film, but it shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone familiar…
Taweewat Wantha’s zesty new action thriller is heroic bloodshed through an abused Thai romantic lens.
It’s almost hard to pin down exactly why Xander Robin’s The Python Hunt feels so special. The ensemble documentary with stunning cinematography that draws the audience in with one thing and delivers an unexpected lesson by the end follows in the footsteps of the many great docs that have done these things before, but it feels revelatory. The film centers around the government-funded 2023 Florida Python Challenge, which called on python hunters from around the globe to help the state rid the Everglades of a staggering non-native Burmese Python population that’s purportedly decimated the local wildlife. The Python Hunt invites audiences to tag along with several groups of hunters in this exciting and novel attempt at ecological preservation before complicating its own narrative. The large…
Dan Stevens, Judith Light, and CCH Pounder lead an ensemble cast in a chilling limited series, debuting on AMC+ and Shudder.
Watch the trailer and see the key art for Mark O’Brien’s new possession horror flick.
Featuring Bruce Lee in his American feature-film debut! Coming June 9 from Arrow Video.
With the end of this year’s edition of Fantaspoa comes news of the award winners and attendance numbers. Throughout nineteen days the festival hosted 24 world premieres, continuing its dominance in Latin America as one of the best places to have your film seen for the first time. Awards were spread across the program with only one film receiving more than one award this year. That’s just solid representation across the board. And for the first time ever, Fantaspoa was granted the honor of awarding a Méliès Silver Award for Best European Feature Film, which grants a film access to the competition held by Sitges every year. This makes Fantaspoa the first non-European festival to receive this distinction. That award went to Paul Urkijo…