Maika Monroe – All Things Ick

‘In Cold Light’ Official Trailer – Maika Monroe Stars in “Absolutely Shocking” Crime Thriller

December 2, 2025 John Squires In Cold Light, Maika Monroe, Movies

While you wait for It Follows sequel They Follow, Maika Monroe (The Hand That Rocks the Cradle) is back in the thriller In Cold Light, and the official trailer has arrived. From French-Canadian director Maxime Giroux (Felix And Meira), Maika Monroe (It Follows) and Troy Kotsur (Coda) star in the movie In Cold Light from Saban Films. Helen Hunt also stars in […]

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‘The Hand That Rocks The Cradle’ Review – Hulu Remake Dials Back the Crazy

October 22, 2025 Joe Lipsett Hulu, Jo Willems, Maika Monroe, Martin Starr, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Micah Bloomberg, Michelle Garza Cervera, Mileiah Vega, Raúl Castillo, Reviews, The Hand That Rocks The Cradle, Yvette Lu

Stop me if you’ve heard this before: a well-to-do white family hires a “too good to be true” nanny to help with the children and quickly discovers that she’s not the perfect aide they hoped for. That’s the plot of both the 1992 movie The Hand That Rocks The Cradle, as well as the new 2025 […]

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Maika Monroe Says “Incredible” ‘They Follow’ Script Is “Very Different” from ‘It Follows’

October 21, 2025 Alex DiVincenzo It Follows, Maika Monroe, Movies, They Follow

Actress Maika Monroe has offered an update on They Follow, the sequel to It Follows that was announced two years ago. “I was sent the script, and I thought it was incredible. Also it’s very different from the original,” Monroe tells Discussing Film. “I felt the original is a little more heightened and dramatic, and […]

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‘The Hand That Rocks the Cradle’ Exclusive Clip – Maika Monroe Tells a Chilling Story

October 20, 2025 John Squires Hulu, Maika Monroe, Movies, The Hand That Rocks The Cradle

Maika Monroe (Longlegs) and Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Birds of Prey) lead the cast of Hulu’s The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, a fresh new take on the classic 1990s thriller from director Michelle Garza Cervera (Huesera: The Bone Woman). It’s coming exclusively to Hulu and Disney+ later this week, and we’ve got an exclusive clip from the movie. In The Hand That […]

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‘Brides’ – Maika Monroe and ‘Watcher’ Director Chloe Okuno Re-team for Vampire Movie

October 30, 2024 John Squires Brides, Chloe Okuno, Maika Monroe, Movies

Fresh off working together on last year’s Hitchcockian thriller Watcher, Maika Monroe (Longlegs) and director Chloe Okuno (V/H/S/94: Storm Drain) will reteam for Brides. Deadline reports, “The [horror] film is currently in pre-production and is set to start shooting in Spring 2025. Chloe Okuno is directing from a screenplay she penned.” Here’s the synopsis: “Set […]

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Mary Elizabeth Winstead Joining Maika Monroe in ‘The Hand That Rocks the Cradle’ Remake

October 11, 2024 John Squires Maika Monroe, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Movies, The Hand That Rocks The Cradle

We recently learned that Maika Monroe has been set to star in a fresh take on The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, and Deadline reports this week that Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Birds of Prey) is now in talks to co-star in the upcoming remake for 20th Century Studios. Michelle Garza Cervera, who came onto the scene last […]

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9 Things We Learned from the ‘Longlegs’ Commentary Track

October 3, 2024 Alex DiVincenzo Home Video, Longlegs, Maika Monroe, Movies, Nicolas Cage, Osgood Perkins

The highest-grossing independent film of the year, Longlegs stars Maika Monroe as an FBI agent in pursuit of the titular serial killer, played by Nicolas Cage. Among the special features on the just-released physical media editions is a refreshingly forthright audio commentary by writer-director Osgood Perkins. Here are nine things I learned from the Longlegs […]

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Maika Monroe Starring in ‘The Hand That Rocks the Cradle’ Remake

September 26, 2024 John Squires Maika Monroe, Michelle Garza Cervera, Movies, The Hand That Rocks The Cradle

Fresh off this year’s box office hit Longlegs, star Maika Monroe has been set to star in a fresh take on The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, THR reports this afternoon. Michelle Garza Cervera, who came onto the scene last year with the incredible horror movie Huesera: The Bone Woman, will direct the new movie […]

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‘Longlegs’ Scores Highest Opening Weekend for an Original Horror Movie This Year

July 15, 2024 John Squires Longlegs, Maika Monroe, Movies, Nicolas Cage, Osgood Perkins

Driven by rave reviews and one hell of a marketing campaign, NEON’s horror movie Longlegs has already proven to be a massive box office success story in the first few days of release. NEON released Longlegs into 2,510 theaters here in the United States over the weekend, and the acclaimed horror movie scared up a […]

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From ‘It Follows’ to ‘Longlegs’: Maika Monroe Has Defined a Decade of Horror

July 11, 2024 Jenn Adams Editorials, Greta, It Follows, Longlegs, Maika Monroe, Sponsored, The Guest, Villains, Watcher

When we think about legendary Scream Queens from the world of horror, it’s usually iconic final girls or empowered assassins who jump to mind – women like Jamie Lee Curtis and Sarah Michelle Gellar most associated with an iconic role despite a multitude of successful genre titles in their extensive catalog. While these beloved actresses […]

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‘Longlegs’ Final Trailer Promises One of the Year’s Scariest Movies is Nearly Here

July 1, 2024 Meagan Navarro Longlegs, Maika Monroe, Movies, Nicolas Cage, Osgood Perkins

NEON has been playing the long game with their cryptic marketing campaign for Longlegs the past few months, but today brings us one step closer to the end, with the final trailer unleashing to promise unrelenting terror. Longlegs heads to theaters on July 12. Watch the new, final trailer below, emphasizing the scariness ahead. The upcoming serial killer […]

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Maika Monroe Says ‘They Follow’ Will Be a Bigger, Darker and Crazier Sequel

June 17, 2024 John Squires It Follows, Maika Monroe, Movies, They Follow

Announced earlier this year, NEON is behind an upcoming sequel to the horror hit It Follows, with writer/director David Robert Mitchell back to direct follow-up They Follow. Maika Monroe (It Follows, Longlegs) will reprise her role of Jay Height, which earned her an Empire Award nomination, and she teases the sequel in a new chat […]

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‘Longlegs’ Review – Oz Perkins’ Latest Gets Under Your Skin and Festers Like a Putrid Nightmare

June 10, 2024July 12, 2024 Meagan Navarro featured, Longlegs, Maika Monroe, Nicolas Cage, Oz Perkins, Reviews, topnews

The concept of evil gets explored often in horror in various ways, but very few films manage to immerse viewers in that evil so wholly that it starts to feel like you’re watching something taboo and cursed. The latest by writer/director Oz Perkins (Gretel & Hansel, The Blackcoat’s Daughter), Longlegs gets under your skin and […]

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‘The Stranger’ – Quibi Series Starring Maika Monroe Has Been Re-Cut into a Feature Film for Hulu

March 13, 2024 John Squires Maika Monroe, Movies, The Stranger, Veena Sud

Remember Quibi? The short-lived, bite-sized entertainment experiment gave us some horror gems including a brand new horror anthology series from Sam Raimi, most of which is currently unavailable to watch anywhere. But there’s good news for one of Quibi’s projects this week, as Veena Sud’s series “The Stranger” has found new life as a Hulu […]

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Craving Camp In Neil Jordan’s May/December Stalker Film ‘Greta’ [Horror Queers Podcast]

March 4, 2024 Joe Lipsett Chloe Grace Moretz, Colm Feore, Greta, Horror Queers, Horror Queers Podcast, isabelle huppert, LGBT, LGBT Horror, lgbtq, LGBTQ Horror, Maika Monroe, Neil Jordan, Podcasts, Stephen Rea

Box Play We’ve spent February discussing Albert Lewin’s 1945 adaptation of The Portrait of Dorian Gray (listen), the perfectly serviceable remake of Friday the 13th (listen), and Pedro Almodóvar’s controversial 2011 thriller The Skin I Live In (listen). Now we’re wrapping up the month with Neil Jordan’s wacky May/December stalker film, Greta (2018). In the […]

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