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Jul 19, 20211 min read

Julia Ducournau’s ‘Titane’ Won the 2021 Palme d’Or at This Year’s Cannes!

Outside of 2019’s Parasite, which I don’t consider a horror film, I’m not sure the genre has ever won as big as it just did at this year’s Festival International du Film de Cannes. It was announced over the weekend that Titane, director Julia Ducournau‘s hotly-anticipated follow-up to Raw, won the coveted Palme d’Or, the […]

Brad Miska

Jul 14, 20213 min read

First ‘Titane’ Reviews: Julia Ducournau Shocks With “Controversial”, “Gory”, and “Ballsy” Body Horror

The car puns are turned to eleven with Raw director Julia Ducournau‘s latest shocker, Titane (acquired by NEON), which just premiered at the ongoing Cannes festival to a mixed-bag of reviews. The program says the plot follows a series of unexplained crimes where a father is reunited with the son who has been missing for […]

Brad Miska

Jul 12, 20212 min read

‘Speak No Evil’ Poster Art Kidnapped and Screams for Help

TrustNordisk, who has been behind some really cool films from Lake of Death to Frost and Breaking Surface, just released a striking piece of art from director and screenwriter Christian Tafdrup’s upcoming psychological horror, Speak No Evil. In the film, which sounds like it flips the home invasion subgenre on its head… “On a vacation in Toscana, a Danish family instantly […]

Brad Miska

Jul 12, 20211 min read

A Mysterious Fog Covers Earth in Sci-Fi Thriller ‘Rubikon’ [Trailer]

The Playmaker Munich has shared with Variety the first teaser trailer for its upcoming sci-fi movie Rubikon, which calls to mind Stanley Kubrick’s 2001, Ridley Scott’s Alien, and Duncan Jones’ recent sci-fi gem Moon. “In the film, following a catastrophe on Earth, the planet is covered in a mysterious toxic fog.” “The crew of the […]

Brad Miska

Jul 12, 20211 min read

Samuel Goldwyn Pays ‘The Toll’ Out of the Virtual Cannes Market [Image]

Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired U.S. rights to the Welsh crime thriller The Toll from Great Point Media out of last month’s Pre-Cannes Screenings, reports ScreenDaily. Welsh filmmaker Ryan Andrew Hooper’s directorial debut is “a darkly comic thriller about a lone toll booth operator with a past that is fast catching up with him.” Kill List’s Michael […]

Brad Miska

Jul 12, 20211 min read

Secrets Get Buried on the Sales Art for ‘The Twin’, Starring ‘Lights Out’s Teresa Palmer

Australian actor Teresa Palmer will star as a young mother plagued by the violent death of one of her twins in the upcoming The Twin, which is being shown to buyers at the ongoing virtual Cannes market. Variety shares today the official market sales art for the film, which was directed by Finnish filmmaker Taneli Mustonen of Lake Bodom fame. […]

Brad Miska

Jul 8, 20211 min read

1091 Pictures Acquires LGBTQ Horror ‘Lair’ For North America

Storyboard Media has sold North American rights for Lair to Hunt for the Wilderpeople and American Animals distributor 1091 Pictures, writes Deadline. In the film, “A fractured LGBTQ family are forced to face their demons, metaphorically and literally, as they unwittingly become embroiled in a man’s attempt to prove the existence of the supernatural in order […]

Brad Miska

Jul 8, 20211 min read

‘Slumber Party Massacre’ Sales Art Reveals The Driller Killer!

You know the drill! Shout! Studios, who was behind the remake of David Cronenberg’s Rabid, has also produced a reimagining of Roger Corman’s 1982 cult classic Slumber Party Massacre. Bloody Disgusting previously shared the above first-ever image from the new take that was directed by Danishka Esterhazy, the filmmaker behind the wild and crazy Banana Splits […]

Brad Miska

Jul 7, 20211 min read

Haunted House Horror ‘The Turn of the Key’ Getting Big Screen Adaptation

Working Title (Last Night in Soho) has optioned rights to best-selling author Ruth Ware’s haunted house thriller The Turn of the Key, Deadline reports out of the virtual Cannes market. “The Turn of the Key tells the story of a young woman who stumbles across an ad to take on a position as a live-in nanny at […]

Brad Miska