Written and directed by Goran Stolevski, You Won’t Be Alone takes place in an isolated mountain village in 19th century Macedonia, Southeast Europe. The story follows a young girl kidnapped and then transformed into a witch by an ancient spirit.
Curious about life as a human, the young witch accidentally kills a peasant in the nearby village and then takes her victim’s shape to live life in her skin.
Her curiosity ignited. She continued to will the horrific power to understand what it means to be human.
Noomi Rapace, Anamaria Marinca, Alice Englert, Carloto Cotta, Felix Maritaud and Sara Klimoska star in the movie.
Co-written and directed by Scott Derrickson, The Black Phone is about a dead phone that keeps ringing to save a kid’s life.
The horror movie follows Finney Shaw, played by Mason Thames, a shy but clever 13-year-old boy abducted by a sadistic killer, played by Ethan Hawke, and trapped in a soundproof basement where screaming is of little use. When a disconnected phone on the wall begins to ring, Finney discovers that he can hear the voices of the killer’s previous victims. And they are dead set on making sure that what happened to them doesn’t happen to Finney.
No stranger to horror, Derrickson’s other credits include the writer-director of Sinister, The Exorcism of Emily Rose and Marvel’s Doctor Strange.
C. Robert Cargill co-wrote the script based on the award-winning short story by Joe Hill from his New York Times bestseller, “20th Century Ghosts,” a compilation of his short stories.
Ethan Hawke’s career covers acting, directing, and producing, with Oscar and Tony Award nominations for his acting. He’s also a novelist and wrote a graphic novel.
Directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, Scream returns 25 years after a streak of brutal murders shocked the quiet town of Woodsboro. A new killer has donned the Ghostface mask and begins targeting a group of teenagers to resurrect secrets from the town’s deadly past.
Neve Campbell, as Sidney Prescott, Courteney Cox, Gale Weathers, David Arquette, and Dewey Riley return to their iconic roles.
The new cast members of Scream include Melissa Barrera, Kyle Gallner, Jason Gooding, Mikey Madison, Dylan Minnette, Jenna Ortega, Jack Quaid, Marley Shelton, Jasmin Savoy Brown and Sonia Ammar.
Directed by Guillermo del Toro, Nightmare Alley exposes the truth about carnie and psychiatrists, the charlatans that they are with a kaleidoscope of a tale.
“I was very interested in a story about destiny and humanity. Stanton Carlisle is a man who is given all the elements to change his life. He has people who believe in him, who love him and trust him. Yet his drive and his own hubris are so strong that they turn him away from that.” —Guillermo del Toro
Charismatic but down-on-his-luck Stanton Carlisle endears himself to clairvoyant Zeena, played by Toni Collette and her has-been mentalist husband Pete, played by David Strathairn. Stanton joins a traveling carnival, where he crafts a golden ticket to success, using this newly gained knowledge to grift the wealthy elite of 1940s New York Society.
With the virtuous Molly, played by Rooney Mara, loyally by his side, Stanton plots to con a dangerous tycoon, played by Richard Jenkins, with the aid of a mysterious psychiatrist, played by Cate Blanchett, who might be his most formidable opponent yet.
Based on the 1947 novel with the same title by William Lindsay Gresham, the monsters in this movie are people who trick others into horrific circumstances. Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara and Willem Dafoe star in this noir.
The story follows Cooper’s character Stanton Carlisle, a nobody, working in a small-time carnival that is not as innocent as America thinks with touches of del Toro.
“In a way, Molly is the conscience of Nightmare Alley. She tries very hard to keep Stan on the right track,” says Dale. “Guillermo has always been a believer in what an actor can convey with their eyes, and Rooney has that ability. She brings to Molly an innocence but also an increasing strength as she grows. She comes to stand in moral contrast to Stanton as loyal, spiritual, and humane.”
Though she has the thick skin and resilience of a young woman raised in the carnival world, Molly wins Stanton’s attention early on with her warmth and hopefulness. She believes he has greatness in him, enough to take a chance on him and leave behind the community she loves.
“Rooney has the most amazing tracking instinct for her character. She knew exactly where the character was, so she’s always real,” commented del Toro.
“We also went after every detail — wanted Molly to be symbolized by a deer, so she wears a little deer pendant throughout,” added del Toro. “We then have a deer in the room of the hotel, on the headboard of the bed. We referenced everything back to her.”
Stanton partners with psychiatrist Dr. Lilith Ritter, played by Blanchett, after Ritter discovers his underhanded schemes to target millionaires.
Blanchett notes that the fascination between Dr. Ritter and Stanton is not only sexual, but the chemical attraction is palpable. There is also a sense of recognition. “She’s a lone wolf, and that’s where she and Stan connect. They are both running from the past, and they can see a similarity between them.”
She continues, “Lilith is also someone who’s interested in both the practical and mystical sides of psychoanalysis, so that’s part of why Stanton intrigues her. She’s trying to work out what makes him tick, as she’s a bit of a shaman herself. Their entire relationship takes place in her office, so we thought about that set as being not just a physical space but a psychological space.”
Passion and vengeance are among the unpredictable emotions that arise in that space. “In a way, Lilith’s office is where Stan is finally vulnerable. There are a lot of destructive urges in Stan that have a parallel in Lilith. It’s a manipulative, deceitful dance between them… and these things rarely end well.”
The carnival’s manager, Clem, played by Willem Dafoe, is an old-school carny with an intimidating gruffness but willingness to give anyone their one chance. “I love this world. It’s so theatrical, full of color and drama, and perfect material for a film,” Dafoe says.
Clem is simultaneously hard-nosed and unwaveringly loyal to his own. “He has a bit of a conman in him, too, and he wants to make a dollar. But there’s a sweet side to Clem as well, where he feels responsible for his carnival family,” Dafoe says.
When Clem first meets Stanton, he identifies with him as someone who seems lost yet full of potential. “I think he sees that Stanton is a little off, he’s a little on the make, but Clem also recognizes himself in Stanton,” notes Dafoe. “A guy like Clem has been around. He’s probably done time, he’s had to scrape to get by, and he knows what that’s like, so he’s willing to help Stanton.”
Clem gives Stanton refuge, but he also demonstrates the depths of his own darkness in his harsh treatment of the carnival’s geek. “It’s pretty rough stuff, the way he creates the carnival geek,” says Dafoe.
Not much out yet about Malignant. As the studio releases information, I will post it here. In the meantime, the trailer shows clips of the director, James Wan, who directed Saw andThe Conjuring.
Co-written by David Gordon Green, Danny McBride and Scott Teems and directed by Green, Halloween Kills is again on the silver screen.
Based on characters created by John Carpenter and Debra Hill, the film brings back Jamie Lee Curtis and Judy Greer with Anthony Michael Hall. Curtis is now the executive producer and, of course, still stars in the horror movie.
Fed up with Michael Myers hunting them, the citizens of Haddonfield decide to hunt Myers down. It begins where we left off on Halloween night. Minutes after Laurie Strode, played by Curtis, her daughter Karen, played by Greer, and a granddaughter, played by Matichak, left the masked monster Myers caged and burning in Laurie’s basement.
They rush Laurie to the hospital with life-threatening injuries, believing she finally killed her lifelong tormentor. However, Myers frees himself from Laurie’s trap. His ritual bloodbath resumes. Laurie overcomes her pain and prepares to define herself against him. She inspires all of Haddonfield to rise up and stop this monster.
The strode women join a group of Myer survivors from his first rampage. They decide to take matters into their own hands and form a vigilante. Like a mob with pitchforks and torches, they set out to hunt Myers down, once and for all — evil dies tonight.
Co-written by Krysty Wilson-Cairns and Edgar Wright, Last Night in Soho is Wright’s story, and he also directs. The film follows Thomasin McKenzie, who plays a young girl named Eloise, and she’s passionate about fashion design. But London is overwhelming for her.
McKenzie had a similar experience of London, which she barely knew before taking the role as her character. “It makes an incredible setting for this film because, like Eloise, I think the whole world looks at London as being very shiny, a big city full of opportunities. Like Eloise, when I first got off the plane and started driving around, I was kind of star-struck trying to take everything in. It’s been amazing working in London because although there is a bad side, it is a magical city, and there are really incredible people.”
She can go into the past and enter the 1960s. There, she encounters her idol, Sandie, a dazzling up-and-coming singer played by Anya Taylor-Joy.
Taylor-Joy was initially “a tiny bit anxious” because she didn’t want to be pigeonholed as a horror actress because she had just finished The Witch. But she quickly realized that this was no stereotypical effort. “As he kept telling me more and more about the story, I realized that I was going to have a lot of fun with it.”
At first, both the star and director thought she might play Eloise. But by the time the script materialized, Wright had another idea, and he sent the script with a note asking the star to consider the Sandie role. “Seeing her in other roles over the years and watching her grow up in public, I thought, maybe she’s the other part,” says Wright. “I sent her an email and said, ‘I have two surprises. One, the Soho script exists. Two, I want you to look at Sandie’. She was 100% onboard.”
Anne Taylor-Joy as Sandie
That’s no exaggeration to hear Taylor-Joy describe her immediate reaction to Sandie. “I enjoyed the fact that she scared me. I’ve played a lot of outsider-y type roles, and Sandie is so confident and so sure of herself as this kind of sexy kitten. When I first read it, I was like, ‘How on earth am I going to pull this off?'” Sandie is outgoing, vivacious and confident: she comes to London determined to become a star. “I think she wants to do it all!” says Taylor-Joy. “She’s an aspiring singer and actress, and dancer. She just wants to see her name up in lights. I call her ‘Brass Balls Sandie’ because she really just throws herself into every situation. I wish I had a bit more of her in me, in that respect.”
Wright is best known for directing Baby Driver, and the large cast includes Matt Smith, Jessie Mei Li, Terence Stamp and Diana Rigg.
“I would love the audience to go on that journey too when the film opens on October 29th. We purposely pushed the film back to this autumn date, not just so that it can hopefully be enjoyed on the biggest screen possible, but also so the nights would be longer and the audience could go in cold… literally.”
In the Final Production Notes, Wright also asked that anyone who sees the film doesn’t spoil it for others by telling them what happens.
Story by James Wan, screenplay written by David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick and directed by Michael Chaves, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It reveals a chilling tale of terror. Based on a true story, the film follows real-life paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren, played by Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga. They witness a murder and unknown evil that shocked even the Warrens.
One of the most sensational cases from their files starts with a fight for the soul of a young boy, then takes them beyond anything they’d ever seen before to mark the first time in U.S. history that a murder suspect would claim demonic possession as a defense.
James Wan directed The Conjuring 2, where the Warrens investigated a paranormal situation in London. So, it appears they haven’t retired yet.
Co-written by Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski and directed by David Bruckner, The Night House follows a widow, played by Rebecca Hall, who uncovers her recently deceased husband’s disturbing secrets. These turn horrific and diabolical. Watch the trailer because it will tell you more about the horror movie.
“On the surface, there was a compelling mystery about one woman’s recently deceased husband and the question of whether we can ever truly know our loved ones. There was the awkwardness of grief and the responsibilities we have for one another in times of emotional peril. And, of course, there was the ghost story, the kind that plays fast and loose with haunt tropes in the way that any horror fan would have a blast running with,” Bruckner.
The production notes the film shows no flashback scenes, even though the movie depends on past events to move the story along. I am curious how the backstory comes into play.
Some cast members include Stacy Martin and Sarah Goldberg.
Produced, directed and written by M. Night Shyamalan from the graphic novel Sandcastle by Pierre Oscar Levy and Frederik Peeters, Old follows a family on a tropical vacation.
They come across a secluded beach to spend a few hours relaxing. Chilling, mysterious phenomena occur where somehow they age rapidly — reducing their entire lives into a single day.
The international cast includes Golden Globe winner Gael García Bernal, Vicky Krieps, Rufus Sewell, Ken Leung, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Abbey Lee, Aaron Pierre, Alex Wolff, Embeth Davidtz, Eliza Scanlen, Emun Elliott, Kathleen Chalfant, and Thomasin McKenzie.
