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Jan 18, 2025 | 
scifinow.co.uk | Kim Newman
Released:17 January 2025 (in cinemas)Certificate:15Director:Leigh WhannellCast:Christopher Abbott, Julia Garner, Matilda FirthDistributor:UniversalRunning Time:103 mins
Having done well with a fresh take on The Invisible Man, Leigh Whannell and Blumhouse were invited to tackle another of the studio’s famous monsters. Whannell’s Invisible Man used H.G. Wells’ see-through maniac to explore coercive control in the framework of a shuddery suspense story.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
empireonline.com | Kim Newman
Five years after his decapitation, supernatural serial killer Art the Clown (David Howard Thornton) returns at Christmas to torment his arch-enemy, Sienna Shaw (Lauren LaVera). Original Title:Terrifier 3The saga of writer-director Damien Leone’s signature horror character Art the Clown began with The 9th Circle, a 2008 short which was recycled with other mini-movies (including a 2011 first draft of Terrifier) into a 2013 anthology film, All Hallows’ Eve.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
scifinow.co.uk | Kim Newman
Released: 4 October (in cinemas)Certificate: 15Director: Todd PhillipsCast: Joaquin Phoenix, Lady Gaga, Brendan Gleeson, Catherine Keener, Zazie Beetz, Steve Coogan, Harry Lawtey, Leigh GillDistributor: Warner BrosRunning Time: 138 mins A point about the Joker – in all comics and screen incarnations – is that Gotham City’s resident Clown Prince of Crime is cleverer than he is funny.This tradition is upheld by Todd Phillips’ ingenious follow-up to his surprise hit Joker, a take on the...
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
empireonline.com | Kim Newman
Chilled American couple Ben (Scoot McNairy) and Louise (Mackenzie Davis) meet overfriendly Brits Paddy (James McAvoy) and Ciara (Aisling Franciosi) on an Italian holiday and accept an invitation to spend a weekend with them in the West Country. However, it becomes apparent that the charming hosts have a sinister hidden agenda.
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Aug 2, 2024 | 
empireonline.com | Kim Newman
Emperor Tiberius (Peter O’Toole) humiliates his nephew Gaius Germanicus (Malcolm McDowell), known as Caligula. Loyal bodyguard Macro (Guido Mannari) kills the tyrant, making way for Caligula’s coronation. Drusilla (Teresa Ann Savoy), Caligula’s sister and lover, persuades him to have Macro executed. Caligula embarks on a brief reign of unparalleled decadence.
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Jun 26, 2024 | 
empireonline.com | Kim Newman
Hollywood, 1985. Porn star and massacre survivor Maxine Minx (Mia Goth) gets a part in a horror film — and is stalked by a serial killer. In Ti West’s 1979-set slasher movie X, Mia Goth played would-be porn star Maxine and elderly killer Pearl. Spinning the film out into a triptych rather than a trilogy, the 1919-set Pearl was about the younger days of the murderess, while MaXXXine is set in 1985 and catches up with what the final girl of the Texas Porn Star Massacre did next in her life.
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Jun 19, 2024 | 
empireonline.com | Kim Newman
Anthony Miller (Russell Crowe), a star whose career has been wrecked by alcohol, is cast as a priest in a remake of a famous horror film, replacing an actor who has mysteriously died. As Miller’s behaviour becomes increasingly erratic, his daughter Lee (Ryan Simkins) worries he’s fallen under demonic influence. Original Title:The ExorcismDirector/co-writer Joshua John Miller has family history with horror. As a child actor, he was the kid vampire in Near Dark.
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Jun 7, 2024 | 
empireonline.com | Kim Newman
Ireland. Mina (Dakota Fanning), lost in haunted woods which seem to have a history of missing people, arrives at a bunker where three mysterious strangers are studied by mysterious beings who stalk the forest. Based on a novel by Irish author A.M. Shine, writer-director Ishana Night Shyamalan’s The Watched — known as The Watchers in some territories — feels like a companion piece to her father M Night Shyamalan's Knock At The Cabin.
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May 1, 2024 | 
riversidestudios.co.uk | Kim Newman
"An extraordinary melodrama" Guardian ★★★★We are delighted that critic, writer and historian Pamela Hutchinson (author of the BFI Classics guide to THE RED SHOES) has recorded an exclusive introduction to our shows of Powell and Pressburger's acclaimed BLACK NARCISSUS. Don't miss the new documentary about the iconic filmmakers that made the celebrated - - showing at Riverside Studios from 17 May. This Powell and Pressburger classic is set in a community of nuns high in the Himalayas.
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Mar 12, 2024 | 
scifinow.co.uk | Kim Newman
Released:22 March (in cinemas)Certificate:15Director:Cameron Cairnes, Colin CairnesCast:David Dastmalchian, Laura Gordon, Ian Bliss, Fayssal Bazzi, Ingrid Torelli, Rhys Auteri, Josh Quong TartDistributor:Vertigo, ShudderRunning Time:93 mins
Late Night With the Devil is an Australian film that is a note-perfect pastiche of American TV circa 1977, with horror escalating over a real-time broadcast.
