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“M3GAN” Clips, Trailer, Featurettes and Poster
Blumhouse brings another psychological horror movie concerning artificial intelligence development and functioning within our society.
Gerard Johnstone directed M3GAN, a story that follows a young girl, played by Violet McGraw, who lost her parents. Her aunt Gemma, played by Allison Williams, adopts her. To help her niece with the loss and transition of living in a new home and location, Aunt Gemma invites her to play with M3GAN, a robot, a lifelike doll programmed to bond with her newly orphaned niece.
Soon, the bonding becomes dangerous as M3GAN becomes violently overprotective of her new friend.
“Nanny” Psychological Horror
Nikyatu Jusu directed Nanny, a psychological horror fable of displacement.
Aisha, played by Anna Diop, is a woman who recently emigrated from Senegal. She nabs a job caring for the daughter of a wealthy couple, played by Michelle Monaghan and Morgan Spector, living in New York City.
Haunted by the absence of the young son she left behind, Aisha hopes her new job will afford her the chance to bring him to the U.S.
But, she becomes increasingly unsettled by the family’s volatile home life. Ashia’s arrival approaches, and the violent presence invades her dreams and reality, threatening the American dream she is painstakingly piecing together.
“Bones And All,” Horrific Love Story
“I am asking my audience to join this journey; it’s about discovery. Who are these people? Why do they behave as they do? What are they learning? And in so, what do we learn about ourselves?” director Luca Guadagnino.
Bones and All is a story about the first love.
Maren, played by Taylor Russell. She is a young woman learning to survive on society’s margins. Lee, played by Timothée Chalamet, is an intense and disenfranchised drifter.
Maren and Lee meet, hook up and begin a thousand-mile odyssey that takes them through the back roads, hidden passages and trap doors of 1980s America.
Maren is born with a secret and driven by an inexplicable hunger outside all normal human bounds, cannibalism. Unable to be like others, she has long felt like an irredeemable outcast moving from town to town.
When her heartbroken father decides he can no longer help her, Maren has no choice but to head out on her own. Then she discovers she is not alone. There are others like her. Others know this same overpowering need.
Others, like Lee, are small-town rebels. Lee helps Maren survive and grows closer to her. He sees her beyond her forbidden desires, even as they become dangerously vulnerable to one another.
But despite their best efforts, all roads lead back to their terrifying pasts and to the last stand that will determine whether their love can survive their otherness.
Austrian Remake, “Goodnight Mommy,” Stars Naomi Watts
Written by Kyle Warren and directed by Matt Sobel, Goodnight Mommy is an English-language remake of the Austrian film of the same title.
The story follows twin brothers, played by Cameron and Nicholas Crovetti. They arrive at their mother’s country home, played by Naomi Watts, to discover her face covered in bandages.
She explains she needs to wear the dressings with her recent cosmetic surgery.
They immediately sense that something doesn’t add up because of her odd behavior, doing things their loving mother would never do. She sets strange new house rules, smokes in her bathroom, and secretly rips up a drawing they gave her.
As her behavior grows increasingly bizarre and erratic, a horrifying thought takes root in the boys’ minds. They have a sinking suspicion that the woman beneath the gauze, making their food and sleeping in the next room, isn’t their mother.
In Warren and Sobel’s version of the film, the fundamental theme is “the human need to be either the victim or the hero of one’s own story — never the villain.”
Compared to the original Austrian film relies on aesthetics and tone, the English remake focuses on reimagining character and psychology, emphasizing the drama over the horror elements.
“Some of the specific changes we made were to put one of the twin boys, Elias, at the center of the story, whereas the original largely treats the three main characters democratically,” explains Sobel.
They wanted to bring the audience into Elias’ experience, so they dramatized his thought processes. Another change was to create the role of Mother as not a monster but a flawed human being whose actions take on new meaning once the movie reveals the story’s core mystery.
Sobel and Watts weaved her performance to specific behaviors that make it clear there’s more going on than meets the eye. They made those moments vivid enough that when the viewer reaches the film’s end, they don’t need to return to the beginning immediately to understand what happened.
“Prey for the Devil” Demonic Horror Trailer and Images
Directed by Daniel Stamm, Prey for the Devil begins with a global rise in demonic possessions. The Catholic Church reopens exorcism schools to train priests in the Rite of Exorcism.
On this spiritual battlefield, an unlikely warrior rises, a young nun, Sister Ann, played by Jacqueline Byers.
Although nuns do not perform exorcisms, a professor, played by Colin Salmon, recognizes Sister Ann’s gifts and agrees to train her.
Thrust onto the spiritual frontline with fellow student Father Dante, played by Christian Navarro, Sister Ann finds herself in a battle for the soul of a young girl.
Sister Ann believes the same demon that possesses the girl is the same demon that tormented her mother years ago.
Sister Ann soon realizes the Devil has her right where he wants her, and it wants in.
“Halloween Ends” Trailers, Featurettes, and Poster
Written by Danny McBride, David Gordon Green, Paul Brad Logan and Chris Bernier, Halloween Ends as the Halloween franchise arrives again just in time for the fateful holiday.
Based on characters created by John Carpenter and Debra Hill and directed by David Gordon Green, we follow Jamie Lee Curtis, once again, as she tackles, fights and kills Michael Myers. Myers can’t seem to let it go. He continues to hunt them.
It begins after Laurie Strode, played by Curtis, knows he burned up. The rest is pretty much the same.
Psychiatrist Haunted by “Smile”
Do you ever wonder why most horror movies have a mental health hospital or psychiatrist as part of the premise? It’s because psychiatry is an industry of death.
So, here we have Dr. Rose Cotter, played by Sosie Bacon, after witnessing a bizarre traumatic incident involving a patient. Dr. Cotter experiences frightening occurrences she can’t explain. As an overwhelming terror takes over her life, Dr. Cotter must confront her troubling past in order to survive and escape her horrifying new reality.
The movie has sharp cuts and sudden jerks of terror with an upside-down look at the world because you can see it in the trailer.
Directed by Parker Fin, the Smile also stars Jessie T. Usher, Kyle Gallner, Robin Weigert, Caitlin Stasey with Kal Penn and Rob Morgan.
“Master” Trailer, Clip, Images and Poster
Written and directed by Mariama Diallo, Master follows three women who strive to find their place at a prestigious New England university whose frosty elitism may disguise something sinister.
Regina Hall plays Professor Gail Bishop, who was recently promoted to “Master” of a residence hall, being the first Black woman to attain the post in the prestigious Ancaster College.
Determined to breathe new life into a centuries-old tradition, Gail soon finds herself wrapped up in the trials and tribulations of Jasmine Moore, played by Zoe Renee, an energetic and optimistic Black freshman.
Jasmine’s time at Ancaster hits a snag early on when she’s assigned a dorm room that is rumored to be haunted. Things get worse when Jasmine clashes in the classroom with Liv Beckman, played by Amber Gray, a professor in the middle of her own racially charged tenure review.
As Gail tries to maintain order and fulfill the duties of a Master, the cracks show in Ancaster’s once-immaculate facade. After a career spent fighting to make it into Ancaster’s inner circle, Gail must confront the horrifying prospect of what lies beneath, her question ultimately becoming not whether the school is haunted but by whom.
As her feature film debut, Diallo first encountered the idea of a college “Master” when she was an undergraduate at Yale. Faculty members oversaw an undergraduate residence called Masters, shaping these communities’ cultural and intellectual life and helping students navigate academic and personal problems. A long-standing tradition at elite British universities, including Oxford and Cambridge, Yale adopted it in the 1930s.
Diallo recalls some of the older students downplaying the term’s connotation of enslavement. “It was very slickly normalized,” she says. “They induct you into this crazy system where they just tell you, ‘We know it sounds weird to call somebody master, but it’s nothing to do with slavery.’ And I was able to accept that in a remarkably and disturbingly short amount of time. So for my four years, it was just completely normal to have this person in your life who you would call Master so-and-so. They’re the person who you go to talk to if you’re having trouble in a class or if you’re feeling homesick or anything like that.”
But several years after graduating, Diallo ran into the former Master of her residential college and saw the title in a different light. “I was so excited to see him that I called out hello, addressing him as Master. He looked hugely uncomfortable because we were in earshot of a ton of people. It was almost like our kink was discovered. It’s a relationship that could only exist within the university gates. Anyway, we went on to have a lovely conversation. But as soon as I walked away, I told myself I had to make a film about it because it really threw into relief how bizarre that term, that relationship is. And I knew I wanted to call it Master because of the multiple layers of meaning.”
In response to student protests, Yale eliminated the term in 2016 — several years after Diallo graduated.
From that germ of an idea, Diallo drafted a screenplay that told the connected stories of three women at fictional Ancaster College: Professor Gail Bishop, the school’s first African-American Master; Jasmine Moore, a bright, optimistic incoming freshman; and Liv Beckman, an outspoken professor seeking tenure.
The movie streams on Amazon Prime.
“Nope” Peele’s Horror Film Brings Laughter
Written and directed by Jordan Peele, Nope is the Oscar-winning director’s next movie. The story is all hush-hush right now, but here is a teaser from Peele.
According to IMDB and the poster, the movie stars Barbie Ferreira, Daniel Kaluuya, Steven Yeun, Keke Palmer and Michael Wincott.