Rian Johnson on the Gothic Horror Mystery Influences Behind ‘Wake Up Dead Man’

Whipsmart detective Benoit Blanc embarks on his darkest case yet when Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery arrives in theaters later next week. The locked room murder-mystery, which opens in select theaters on November 26 before streaming on Netflix December 12, draws inspiration from the darker literary corners of the mystery world. “[Edgar Allan] […]

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‘Wake Up Dead Man’ Trailer – A Perfectly Impossible Crime Unfolds in New ‘Knives Out’ Mystery

There’s “some Scooby-Doo shit going on” in the trailer for Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery. Written and directed by Rian Johnson, the murder-mystery opens in select theaters on November 26 before streaming on Netflix December 12. Daniel Craig is back on the case as Benoit Blanc, incapable of not solving a crime […]

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‘Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery’ TIFF Review – Benoit Blanc Is Back in Bigger and Funnier Whodunnit

Murder is afoot once more in the latest Knives Out mystery from writer/director Rian Johnson. So is the world’s greatest detective, Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig), who’d grown bored during the pandemic and needed a new case to crack. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery sticks to sequel conventions in that it goes bigger than its predecessor. Still, it also switches […]

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Exploring Rape Revenge in David Fincher’s ‘The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo’ [Horror Queers Podcast]

Tic for Tac. After spending our 150th episode extravaganza with The Lost Boys and closing out November with some Satanists in The Seventh Victim , we kicked off December with the queer-coded antichrist in Fear No Evil. Now, we’re getting into the winter season with David Fincher‘s 2011 adaptation of Stieg Larsson‘s novel that set the world […]

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