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Plot: A shitstorm of bad news sends out of work filmmaker Jimmy spiraling into an out of control bender in which he claims to have been abducted by aliens. Fearing they’ll come back, he contacts his old friend Stiggs to help him gear up for war.

Review: If there’s one horror movie I’ve been looking forward to all year, practically causing me to bounce with excitement, it’s Jimmy and Stiggs. Joe Begos‘ latest has always promised to be a splatterfest of epic proportions and, with Eli Roth’s Horror Section Studios acquiring it, all signs pointed towards a potential cult classic. And I’m happy to say that it’s everything you would expect from it and more, providing an absolute cacophony of chaos. I loved every minute of it.

Writer/director Joe Begos stars as Jimmy Lang, an out-of-work filmmaker who is in the midst...

Based on the novel by the same name, Netflix’s Night Always Comes (2025) is a peek into urban desolation and destitution, in the guise of a time-ticking thriller. However, this Benjamin Caron directorial fails to navigate the labyrinthine plot events that its frazzled lead character spirals down to. It too becomes frazzled and disoriented. Vanessa Kirby, the co-producer of the film, leads a mostly sincere cast. Her Lynette, along with Zack Gottsagen’s Kenny (Lynette’s brother), forms the heart of the story, which features Lynette’s nocturnal quest to raise $25000.

Night Always Comes (2025) ‘Netflix’ Plot Summary & Movie Synopsis:

The story starts with Lynette (Kirby) arranging $25000 to purchase the house her family is renting. Her family includes her brother, Kenny (Gottsagen), and her mother, Doreen (Jennifer Jason Leigh). Kenny has Down syndrome, and he is struggling to secure a job. Lynette does two jobs to keep the family afloat. She...

Eli Roth has spent decades in the entertainment industry, but he’s still chasing the high of telling his schoolyard friends about the wild new movie he just saw.

“If someone had given me this tape in seventh grade and I watched it, would I be running around telling all my friends, ‘We gotta watch this again right now’?” he says. “”You’re coming over after school’ and I’m gonna watch their reaction watching it. On a very basic level, that is still how I gauge these movies. Is this something that I want to call Quentin [Tarantino] and go, ‘Dude, dude, dude, you gotta see this’?”

That mindset is the impetus behind The Horror Section, Roth’s new scary movie company. Earlier this year, the organization made headlines when Roth offered regular fans a chance to invest. Nearly 2,500 people joined during the March launch period, pledging anywhere from $100 to $1 million.

Presented by Eli Roth, Jimmy and Stiggs is in theaters today — and its soundtrack won’t be far behind.

Composed by Steve Moore, the score is up for pre-order on vinyl for $25 via Terror Vision Records.

The LP is pressed on 140-gram fluorescent orange with green splatter vinyl, along with limited black. It’s housed in a gatefold jacket with liner notes by filmmaker Joe Begos.

The soundtrack is also available on CD for $15 and cassette for $13. All formats are expected to ship in September.

For more Jimmy and Stiggs merch, Hot Topic has launched a collection of T-shirts, sweatshirts, posters, and throw blankets.

In addition to writing and directing, Begos stars in the 16mm alien invasion splatterfest alongside Matt Mercer (Contracted).

Down-on-his-luck filmmaker Jimmy claims he was abducted by aliens, vowing to bring them down alongside his friend, Stiggs.

Daniel Kurland wrote in his review, “The world needs more playful,...

Vanessa Kirby is celebrating her new Netflix movie Night Always Comes with boyfriend Paul Rabil by her side!

The 37-year-old actress, who is pregnant with her first child, posed on the red carpet with Paul at a screening of the film on Tuesday (August 12) in London, England.

Vanessa was also joined by co-star Zack Gottsagen, director Benjamin Caron, and their families.

Night Always Comes follows Lynette, a woman who risks everything to secure the house that represents a future for her family. On a dangerous odyssey through a single night, Lynette is forced to confront her dark past in order to finally break free.

The cast also includes Jennifer Jason Leigh, Stephan James, Randall Park, Julia Fox, Michael Kelly, and Eli Roth.

The movie is now streaming on Netflix. Watch the trailer now!

What would you do if you only had several hours left to come up with a large sum of money? That money in question is urgently needed to buy the house or face eviction. Such a dilemma happens to poor Lynette (Vanessa Kirby), who is already struggling to make ends meet working two dead-end jobs. Right from the start, the background voice of news reports plays over the opening credits as we learn everything from the downward spiral of wages to the housing crisis, mirroring Lynette’s current scenario.

The loan company has been chasing her early in the morning with a phone call for outstanding payments. She has to put up with her fickle-minded mother (Jennifer Jason Leigh), while her older brother Kenny (Zack Gottsagen) diagnosed with Down syndrome, can’t get a job to ease the family burden due to his condition. It’s not entirely doom and gloom as their landlord,...

A new crime thriller from Netflix has been well-received on Rotten Tomatoes. The streaming service, which is one of the biggest in the world, features a library of licensed movie and television titles, but they are best known for their original projects, which include massive hits such as Squid Game, Stranger Things, and the 2025 smash KPop Demon Hunters.

Because they produce releases in a wide variety of genres, there have been a number of major Netflix thrillers in the crime genre. While some have not been well-reviewed on Rotten Tomatoes, such as Pain Hustlers (23%) and Reptile (44%), others have been better-received, including The Irishman (95%), El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (92%), and their newest outing.

Night Always Comes Has Debuted With A Fresh Rotten Tomatoes Score

Netflix's Night Always Comes has won over critics so far. The new Netflix movie is a crime thriller directed by Benjamin Caron and based on the...

There is a particular flavor of modern anxiety born from the quiet hum of a refrigerator and the silent dread of a rent check. It is the awareness that the floor beneath our feet is not solid ground but a trapdoor, one bad day away from swinging open. Night Always Comes weaponizes this feeling, turning the widespread condition of economic precarity into a brutalist, street-level thriller.

The film introduces us to Lynette, a woman whose singular, almost holy, ambition is to buy the rundown Portland house she grew up in. This is not a quest for upward mobility; it is a desperate bid for stasis, a chance to secure a sliver of permanence for herself and her older, developmentally disabled brother, Kenny.

The trapdoor swings open early. The plan hinges on her flaky mother, Doreen, who not only fails to show up for the loan signing but reappears having spent...

Joe Begos (Chirstmas Bloody Christmas) is back with another neon-drenched, ultra gory slice of 16mm madness in Jimmy & Stiggs. Since his 2019 festival hit Bliss, Begos has been working exclusively on film and it’s really helped make his work stand out, assuming the nonstop parade of gooey exploding heads, killer robot Santas, and dive bar lighting didn’t already set him apart. Jimmy & Stiggs is a real indie achievement, starring Begos himself in the lead role, and featuring enough dayglo orange alien blood to repaint your entire apartment. It’s a non-stop heavy metal head trip and easily one of the most insane movies of the year. A real solid pick for Eli Roth to kickstart his brand-new independent studio The Horror Section, which is bringing the mayhem to cinemas this weekend.

Set entirely in an LA low-rise apartment, Jimmy & Stiggs follows am out of work filmmaker...

It is a given among the comfortable that most crime happens because there are bad people. It’s a certainty among the disadvantaged, however, that some crime happens because those without financial safety nets often lack other options. That’s a running theme in Willy Vlautin’s novels, two of which have already been adapted as movies. Now there’s “Night Always Comes,” with producer Vanessa Kirby as a hard-luck case in Portland, Ore., who’s driven to unlawful acts over several hours’ course in a last-ditch effort to save her home. It’s a compelling tale of increasingly hazardous desperation, even if the star and her fellow-Brit director Benjamin Caron (oth veterans of royalty drama series “The Crown) aren’t necessarily an ideal fit for this very American, down-and-out milieu.

Thirtysomething Lynette (Kirby) gets woken at 5 a.m. by yet another call from a loan company, threatening consequences for late payments.

Set over the course of a single harrowing night and driven by a performance from Vanessa Kirby bristling with raw nervous energy, hunger and searing inner conflict, Netflix’s Night Always Comes is more compelling than the average original streaming movie even if it could use an extra shot of emotional power. Adapted from the well-received novel by Willy Vlautin, the gritty neo-noir is high on atmosphere. But it’s more attentive to the protagonist’s spiraling desperation than the canvas of an ever-gentrifying America’s unforgiving economic climate, diluting the social context of the book.

Reuniting with Benjamin Caron, one of her directors on The Crown, Kirby plays Lynette, who lives in her dilapidated childhood home in Portland with her developmentally disabled older brother Kenny (Zack Gottsagen) and their flaky mother Doreen (Jennifer Jason Leigh), who works for a grocery store chain. Their father took off some time back.

Vanessa Kirby may be battling Galactus on the big screen in the MCU’s The Fantastic Four: First Steps, but she’s facing an entirely different threat in the Netflix thriller Night Always Comes. It’s an admittedly smaller threat (though what isn’t smaller than Galactus?), but in the eyes of Lynette, the peril is equally world-ending. Adapted from the 2021 novel by author Willy Vlautin, Night Always Comes is a dark and difficult journey featuring a spectacular cast and razor-sharp direction from Benjamin Caron.

Night Always Comes plot

Acting as the primary caretaker of her older brother, Kenny, Lynette is faced with the dark mistakes of her questionable past. When the house she shares with Kenny is at risk of being taken away for lack of payment, she finds herself faced with a desperate decision. With only one night to secure the money to keep her home, Lynette finds...

Vanessa Kirby needs to earn $25,000 in Netflix’s upcoming thriller Night Always Comes. Fresh off her Marvel debut in The Fantastic Four: First Steps, the Oscar-nominated actress is set to play Lynette, a protective woman determined to save the house that holds her family’s future.

Based on Willy Vlautin’s 2021 novel, the Benjamin Caron-directed film follows Lynette as she races against time to raise the money, with the trailer showing her scrambling through increasingly desperate situations.

Kirby stars alongside Zack Gottsagen as her older brother Kenny, Jennifer Jason Leigh as Doreen, plus Julia Fox, Eli Roth, and Stephan James. In addition to leading the cast, Kirby is also producing the film, marking her second collaboration with Caron after The Crown.

Vanessa Kirby Wins High Praise From Director Benjamin Caron Vanessa Kirby in a still from Night Always Comes | Netflix

Vanessa Kirby is set to bring Lynette to life...

"Are you stupid?" "I'm gonna do it!" "Don't go in that house...!"...

After creating the Thanksgiving faux trailer for the Robert Rodriguez / Quentin Tarantino double feature Grindhouse back in 2007, Eli Roth wanted to make an entire feature out of faux trailers, a project he called Trailer Trash. Trailers he teased for that included Nascar Dog, Bear Witness, and Farmageddon, plus collaborations with Edgar Wright, Robert Rodriguez, Peter Berg, Howard Stern, and Greg Nicotero, among others. Sadly, Trailer Trash never happened – but we did get a Thanksgiving movie eventually, and now it looks like Roth has found a roundabout way to make his Trailer Trash dreams come true. Last week, he released a faux trailer called The Piano Killer, which will be playing in theatres with the bonkers splatterfest Jimmy and Stiggs. Now, he has released another faux trailer! This one is called Don’t Go in That House, Bitch! and will also be attached to Jimmy and Stiggs in theatres. You can...

Eli Roth’s new company The Horror Section has been paving the road to the release of their first movie Jimmy and Stiggs in theaters on August 15 with a couple faux horror movie trailers, the first of which was The Piano Killer last week. This week, Eli Roth has enlisted the help of Snoop Dogg for Don’t Go in That House, Bitch, which is now available online.

Once again, this is a trailer for a fake movie that’ll probably never actually get made, with Eli Roth channeling the same idea behind the faux trailers that played as part of Grindhouse back in 2007. Of course, several of those fake trailers actually did end up becoming real movies, with Roth’s own fake slasher Thanksgiving finally becoming a real feature film back in 2023.

Don’t Go in That House, Bitch takes a page out of the playbook of Edgar Wright’s Grindhouse trailer Don’t,...

Rob Zombie has said that for every one film project of his that moves forward, there are five potential projects that fall by the wayside. We haven’t heard of quite that many unmade Rob Zombie movies, but we have heard of several over the years that never got off the ground… and unfortunately, most of them sounded pretty interesting. A little over a year ago, Zombie had said he didn’t know what his next movie is going to be, but he did know what it’s not going to be: he won’t be continuing his Firefly franchise, and he doesn’t want to make a sequel to The Munsters (which was poorly received). So while he figures out his next cinematic move, we we have put together a list of Rob Zombie Movies We Want To See!

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Netflix is set to release a new crime thriller called Night Always Comes on August 15, 2025. The movie is based on Willy Vlautin’s 2021 novel, The Night Always Comes, and tells the story of a woman trying to escape her struggles and survive in a harsh world.

Netflix has already released the new trailer, giving fans an early look at what’s coming. The film is directed by Benjamin Caron, with a script by Sarah Conradt. Vanessa Kirby stars as Lynette, the woman at the center of the story, and she also served as one of the producers. Jennifer Jason Leigh plays Doreen, while Zack Gottsagen takes on the role of Lynette’s older brother, Kenny. Other cast members include Stephen James, Julia Fox, Eli Roth, Randall Park, and Michael Kelly.

She’s running out of time.

Vanessa Kirby stars in Night Always Comes. Premiering this Friday. pic.twitter.com/fkyXMQlq...

Netflix is set to release a new crime thriller called Night Always Comes on August 15, 2025. The movie is based on Willy Vlautin’s 2021 novel The Night Always Comes and tells the story of a woman struggling to escape a difficult life.

Netflix has already given fans a first look with the release of the trailer. The film is directed by Benjamin Caron, with a script written by Sarah Conradt. Vanessa Kirby stars as Lynette, the main character, and also helped produce the movie. Jennifer Jason Leigh plays Doreen, while Zack Gottsagen appears as Lynette’s older brother, Kenny. Other cast members include Stephen James, Julia Fox, Eli Roth, Randall Park, and Michael Kelly.

She’s running out of time.

Vanessa Kirby stars in Night Always Comes. Premiering this Friday. pic.twitter.com/fkyXMQlq0J

— Netflix (@netflix) August 12, 2025

According to Netflix, the story follows Lynette as she tries to raise money...

Executive produced by Eli Roth (Thanksgiving) and directed by Joe Begos (Christmas Bloody Christmas), Jimmy and Stiggs is, like the director’s past work, a low-budget, high-concept blend of action and horror. However, Begos fails to strike an effective balance between scrappy and entertaining, resulting in a picture that doesn’t live up to its potential.

Jimmy and Stiggs Review

Jimmy and Stiggs follows a conspiracy theorist who begins a doom spiral after becoming convinced that he has been abducted by aliens, enlisting the help of his best friend to fight them off. Basically one long action sequence, how much audiences connect to Begos’s latest film will depend on how willing they are to buy into its zany wavelength.

In the opening moments, it seems like fans are in for a treat. The first scene is one of the most kinetic, enjoyable Pov action sequences in recent memory. Unfortunately,...

Vanessa Kirbyis riding high on the success of Marvel’s The Fantastic Four: First Steps, which marks her entry in the MCU as the superhero with a strong maternal instinct, Sue Storm. Now the actress is continuing the momentum with her next release, which will again see her in the protective matriarch mode in Netflix’s Night Always Comes.

The movie, based on the 2021 novel of the same name by author Willy Vlautin, is directed by Andor'sBenjamin Caron. Written by Maternal Instinct’s Sarah Conradt, it followsKirby as Lynette, a woman who risks everything to secure the house that represents a future for her family. Things take a turn one night when Lynette plunges into a desperate and increasingly dangerous all-night search to raise $25,000. Given Kirby's recent performance, no doubt, she'll be brilliant in the upcoming role.

The story will explore themes of gentrification, greed, and the American Dream as...

Eli Roth’s new company The Horror Section officially launches with the theatrical release of Jimmy and Stiggs on August 15, and the brand’s next project has been announced.

The Horror Section will expand its slate with the award-winning Dream Eater, a terrifying found-footage chiller from the Canadian genre trio behind Blind Luck Pictures.

Co-written and co-directed by Jay Drakulic, Mallory Drumm, and Alex Lee Williams and starring Williams and Drumm, the film will debut theatrically on October 24, 2025.

Watch the official trailer for Dream Eater below.

Blending raw, documentary-style realism with escalating tension and scares, Dream Eater delivers an unshakable nightmare that lingers long after the final frame – tailor-made for today’s watch-through-your-fingers audiences.

The story follows Mallory (Mallory Drumm), a documentary filmmaker, who heads to a remote cabin in the mountains with her boyfriend Alex (Alex Lee Williams) to document his violent parasomnia. As his condition worsens, Mallory suspects...

Earlier this year, Roth launched a company called The Horror Section with plans to produce all things horror, including movies, TV shows, games, podcasts, and more. The Horror Section picked up the distribution rights to writer/director Joe Begos’s Jimmy and Stiggs and is teaming up with Iconic Events to give the film a wide theatrical release on August 15th (with Roth’s faux trailer The Piano Killer attached to it). Now, Variety reports that The Horror Section has also picked up the distribution rights to the found footage horror film Dream Eater, with the plan being to get it into theatres on October 24th. A trailer can be seen in the embed above.

Written and directed by Jay Drakulic, Mallory Drumm, and Alex Lee Williams, Dream Eater follows Mallory (Drumm), a documentary filmmaker, who heads to a remote cabin in the mountains with her boyfriend Alex (Williams) to document his violent parasomnia.

The second film acquired by Eli Roth’s The Horror Section is a low-budget, found footage nightmare that has taken horror festivals by storm.

“Dream Eater,” co-written and co-directed by Jay Drakulic, Mallory Drumm and Alex Lee Williams and starring Williams and Drumm, is set to debut theatrically on Oct. 24.

Per the official logline, “The story follows Mallory (Drumm), a documentary filmmaker, who heads to a remote cabin in the mountains with her boyfriend Alex (Williams) to document his violent parasomnia. As his condition worsens, Mallory suspects something more sinister may be at play. As the nightmares escalate, so do the scares, right through the final frame.”

“I vividly remember every movie that truly terrified me,” Eli Roth, founder and chief creative officer of The Horror Section, said in a statement. “I remember standing on 25th street in New York City when my friend Kevin Foxe handed me a VHS...

"The ultimate weapon has struck a chord... with a madman."...

After creating the Thanksgiving faux trailer for the Robert Rodriguez / Quentin Tarantino double feature Grindhouse back in 2007, Eli Roth wanted to make an entire feature out of faux trailers, a project he called Trailer Trash. Trailers he teased for that included Nascar Dog, Bear Witness, and Farmageddon, plus collaborations with Edgar Wright, Robert Rodriguez, Peter Berg, Howard Stern, and Greg Nicotero, among others. Sadly, Trailer Trash never happened – but we did get a Thanksgiving movie eventually. And today, a new Roth faux trailer has dropped online! It’s called The Piano Killer and it will be playing in theatres with the bonkers splatterfest Jimmy and Stiggs, but you can watch it right now in the embed above.

Note that the faux trailer for The Piano Killer ends with the promise that the film is coming in 2042, a nod to the fact that it took seventeen years for the Thanksgiving movie to get made.

Eli Roth is channeling his Grindhouse past with The Piano Killer, a new trailer for his horror studio The Horror Section that will be playing in theaters nationwide starting August 15, attached to the first theatrical release from Roth’s new company, Jimmy and Stiggs.

The team previews, “The Piano Killer trailer offers a first taste of the twisted, genre-smashing direction Eli Roth is taking with The Horror Section. Created alongside longtime collaborator Jeff Rendell (Thanksgiving), the trailer follows in the footsteps of their original Thanksgiving teaser, which famously morphed into a cult-favorite feature.

“What starts as an ordinary opening moment, turns into total mayhem…when the mystery killer turns out to be a piano. It’s absurd. It’s terrifying. And it’s exactly the kind of audacious, offbeat horror that defines The Horror Section.”

For now, it’s just a fake trailer for a Dario Argento-style Giallo movie about a killer piano.

Nearly two decades ago, Eli Roth teased the world with a slasher flick centered around Turkey Day and, several years later, that movie served up a feature-sized production through Thanksgiving. Now, the celebrated filmmaker is in the trailer business again with the latest short-form project to come out under his new banner, The Horror Section. Titled The Piano Killer, the short but sweet project, which Roth created alongside his longtime collaborator, Jeff Rendell (Thanksgiving), gives fans yet another imaginative bit of content that could easily make its way into a longer format in the future. Ahead of the full trailer’s arrival in cinemas beginning on August 15 as part of the preshow entertainment prior to Joe Begos’ Jimmy & Stiggs, Collider is excited to give audiences a taste of the perfectly tuned brutality to come.

A murderous madman is on the loose in our sneak peek of the teaser for The...

August 2025 is set to be a massive month for the horror genre, with icons like Jason Voorhees and the Alien franchise’s Xenomorphs making their return to the screen. A master of 1980s horror is also back with a brand new horror movie later this month, while a fan favorite found footage horror franchise takes over the big screen for the first time in its fifth and final outing.

And of course, even Troma’s cult hero The Toxic Avenger is back this month! It’s a month that’s absolutely full of exciting returns, with many familiar faces coming back into our lives.

Here’s all the new horror you don’t want to miss in August 2025…

Weapons – August 8

First up, Barbarian director Zach Cregger is back on August 8 with the release of his second horror movie Weapons, which has been compared to Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia and described as a “horror epic.

MGM+ has unveiled the official trailer and key art for Let the Devil In, which is set to premiere on August 31, 2025, at 9:00 p.m. Et/Pt.

Let the Devil In is a haunting and mysterious four-episode documentary series about a decades-old tragedy that destroyed one family and ignited the darkest fears of a small New Jersey town.

For the first time, witnesses, friends, and community members try to make sense of the unthinkable events, some believing that Satan took hold of a vulnerable teen boy, while others believe that far more earthly demons were to blame.

Danielle Franco directed the series and is the showrunner. The producers include Anike Niemeyer, Kevin Vargas, William Acks, and Trey Nelson.

Photo courtesy of MGM+

The executive producers include Eli Roth, Branden Morgan, Anneka Jones, Jill Burkhart, Ken Druckerman, Banks Tarver, Rod Blackhurst, Dirk Hoogstra, and Nicole Sorrenti.

Leading into the premiere of Let the Devil In,...

Eli Roth is back with the MGM+ original documentary series “Let the Devil In,” and Bloody Disgusting is exclusively debuting the project’s official trailer today. Check it out below.

“Let the Devil In” premieres August 31, 2025 at 9:00 p.m. Et/Pt on MGM+.

Executive produced by Eli Roth, the haunting and mysterious four-episode documentary series “Let the Devil In” is about a decades-old tragedy that destroyed one family and ignited the darkest fears of a small New Jersey town. For the first time, witnesses, friends, and community members try to make sense of the unthinkable events, some believing that Satan took hold of a vulnerable teen boy, while others believe that far more earthly demons were to blame.

Danielle Franco is the project’s director and showrunner.

Executive Producers include Eli Roth alongside Branden Morgan, Anneka Jones, Jill Burkhart, Ken Druckerman, Banks Tarver, Rod Blackhurst, Dirk Hoogstra & Nicole Sorrenti.

An Oxford-set college rom-com from the guy behind The Inbetweeners; the return of one of Netflix’s biggest ever shows; Genndy Tartakovsky’s latest adult animated project; Vanessa Kirby’s return to more intimate dramas about the human condition; a documentary that promised to shed new light on the Jussie Smollett hate crime incident; and a murder mystery film featuring several British and Irish acting icons are some of the highlights among the new films and series hitting Netflix in August.

Kicking off August is the rom-com My Oxford Year, which focuses on the tried and trusted formula of a young American girl heading to stuffy old Europe and finding love with some impossibly handsome and terribly charming guy, so it’s almost guaranteed to find a huge audience. In this instance, Sofia Carson plays Anna, an ambitious American student at Oxford University whose life is changed when she meets...

Two years ago, Eli Roth said that he was interested in returning to the Hostel and Cabin Fever franchises – and within six months of him saying that, we learned that a Hostel TV series was in the works, with Paul Giamatti (The Holdovers) attached to star in the show. It was said that the series would be coming our way from Fifth Season, the studio behind Apple’s Severance, with Roth, Chris Briggs, and Mike Fleiss on board as executive producers. Roth and Briggs are also writing the project, which Roth will be directing, the aim being to reinvent the franchise as an “elevated thriller.” Now, a year later, Variety reports that the Hostel TV series has found a home at the Peacock streaming service!

As Variety reminds us, in the Hostel franchise, innocent tourists are kidnapped by a mysterious group known as the Elite Hunting Club operating out of Eastern Europe,...

Fans of the horror genre, Eli Roth and Paul Giamatti have a reason to celebrate today. While that trio may not appear to go together on paper, it's going to potentially lead to seeing one of Roth's more high-profile releases getting to continue its brand of traveling overseas torture on the Peacock streaming service.

Per Variety, the HostelTV series is officially being developed at Peacock, with Paul Giamatti attached to star. The project was first announced in 2024 with Giamatti's involvement, but it had yet to find a home. Roth will write, direct, and executive produce the series, while Chris Briggs and Mike Fleiss, who have been involved since the original 2005 film, will both serve as executive producers on the project. While plot details are unknown, it will likely continue the franchise's tendency to make audiences fear being hunted as tourists in a foreign land.

While Giamatti's pedigree as a...

Twenty years after the first film launched the controversial torture porn franchise, a series adaptation of Hostel horror is moving forward and has landed a streaming home. The movie was written and directed by Eli Roth, and followed American tourists in Slovakia, kidnapped by a mysterious group that allows wealthy elites to torture and murder people for money.

Despite the controversy surrounding its graphic violence and gore, the movie was a box office success, spawning two sequels, a follow-up written and directed by Roth, and a direct-to-video third movie, which Roth was not involved with. Roth had previously revealed his intent to develop further Hostel movies, though this looks to be going on a different path.

Per Variety, a Hostel TV adaptation is in development at Peacock, with original creator Eli Roth on board, and Paul Giamatti set to star. Chris Briggs and Mike Fleiss, who produced the divisive horror movie franchise,...

Eli Roth’s Hostel franchise is coming back to life with a television series, we recently learned, and Variety updates this morning that the series is in development at streamer Peacock.

Academy Award nominee Paul Giamatti is attached to star!

Variety also notes in today’s report that Eli Roth will be writing, directing and producing the Hostel series, which marks his return to the franchise almost 20 years after Hostel: Part II.

The outlet reports, “Chris Briggs and Mike Fleiss, who produced all the Hostel films, are executive producers. Fifth Season is the studio. Exact plot details are being kept under wraps.”

Giamatti is actually a longtime fan of the Hostel films. “Eli was shooting Hostel in Prague and I was shooting The Illusionist and I met him. We talked about me actually killing somebody in that movie but it never panned out,” Giamatti told EW in a 2013 interview.

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Eli Roth is bringing his horrific Hostel series to the small screen. The show is currently in development at Peacock and will star Emmy winner Paul Giamatti, according to our sister site Variety.

TVLine has reached out to the streamer for confirmation and more details.

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Roth, who wrote and directed the first two Hostel films in 2005 and 2007, is set to write,...

The popular horror movie series “Hostel” is getting a new life as a TV show, and it will be coming to Peacock, the streaming service from NBCUniversal.

According to Variety, the series is currently in development for Peacock, although it was first reported earlier this year without a confirmed platform.

Paul Giamatti, known for his incredible acting skills and multiple award nominations, is set to star in the series. Eli Roth, the creator behind the original “Hostel” films, will be heavily involved as the writer, director, and executive producer.

Chris Briggs and Mike Fleiss, who produced the movies, are also on board as executive producers. The studio behind the project is Fifth Season. Details about the plot are still being kept secret for now.

The original “Hostel” movies tell a chilling story about a secret organization called the Elite Hunting Club, which operates in Eastern Europe.

This group kidnaps unsuspecting...

Eli Roth’s “Hostel” TV series has landed at Peacock for development, TheWrap has learned.

The NBCUniversal-owned streamer will develop the TV adaptation of the horror franchise with Paul Giamatti attached to star. The project hails from Roth, who directed and wrote the first two “Hostel” movies, as well as “Hostel” producers Chris Briggs and Mike Fleiss.

Produced by “Severance” producer Fifth Season, the “Hostel” TV series is billed as a modern “reinvention” of the horror franchise, which kicked off with the 2006 movie. The original film centered on a group of American tourists whose trip to Slovakia turns upside down when they are taken individually by an organization that allows people to torture and kill others.

The news comes over a year after the project was reported to be in the works from Roth, Briggs, Fleiss and Fifth Season, with Roth intended to direct the TV show and write the script.

Peacock is offering a place to stay for a Hostel series project from filmmaker Eli Roth and star Paul Giamatti.

The NBCUniversal streamer will develop the project, which is based on Roth’s mid-2000s horror movies about an underground network of wealthy people who kidnap and torture young tourists staying in hostels. The show, which THR reported was in the works in 2024 (but without a home), comes from Fifth Season.

Oscar nominee and Emmy winner Giamatti, an avowed horror fan, is set to star in the show, though details of his role are being kept under wraps. The Hostel series project is described as a present-day take on the concept.

Roth, who wrote and directed 2005’s Hostel and 2007’s Hostel: Part II, is set to write, direct and executive produce the Peacock project. The films’ producers, Mike Fleiss and Chris Briggs, are also EPs. (A third Hostel film, made without Roth’s involvement,...

It was reported last year that fans would be returning to the most frightening guest house with a television adaptation of Hostel, adapted from the popular horror film franchise of the same name, and we now have a major update on that front. The series has landed at Peacock for development and is currently being fast-tracked for production, according to Variety. Plot details remain slim, but the show does have a recent Oscar nominee attached.

The series is set to star Paul Giamatti, and it seems that the iteration of the show at Peacock is largely the same as first reported. Hostel will be based on the horror franchise that first premiered in 2006. The original film, directed by Eli Roth, followed a group of college students who take a trip to Eastern Europe. But things go bad when they are abducted in Slovakia by a group known as the Elite Hunting Club,...

The “Hostel” TV series has found a home at Peacock.

Variety has learned exclusively that the TV extension of the horror film franchise is currently in development at the NBCUniversal streamer. The show was previously reported to be in the works in June 2024, but no platform was attached at that time.

As originally reported, Paul Giamatti is attached to star in the series, with “Hostel” mastermind Eli Roth set to write, direct, and executive produce. Chris Briggs and Mike Fleiss, who have produced all the “Hostel” films, are also executive producers. Fifth Season is the studio. Exact plot details are being kept under wraps.

In the “Hostel” franchise, innocent tourists are kidnapped by a mysterious group known as the Elite Hunting Club operating out of Eastern Europe, with the group’s rich clientele paying to torture and murder the tourists. The first film was released in theaters in 2006, with Roth writing,...

If, in any case, you are living a monotonous life, I highly recommend sprinkling in some of that daily puzzle magic into your day, and to start with, I highly recommend getting into Actorle, which gives four different sets of daily puzzles based on Hollywood.

Whether it’s identifying a mystery actor by their filmography and age or rearranging different movie frames in the correct order, Actorle has it all. July 31’s challenges did not disappoint, and the following is a breakdown of all four puzzles the site has to offer.

Actorle Solution for Today The answer for Actorle on July 31 is Thomas Haden Church | Credit: Actorle/FandomWire

July 31’s Actorle gave me a bit of a nostalgic throwback. It was hard to guess the mystery actor for the day initially, but as soon as I unlocked the movies Sideways, Spider-Man 3, and Spider Man: No Way Home, my brain...

In an unprecedented move, New York-based Fangoria Studios is attending the Sanfic Morbido Lab for possible co-production opportunities.

“Horror is a universal language that transcends cultural boundaries, making it the perfect foundation for this partnership. There’s no better way to mark Fangoria coming onboard with Morbido than by celebrating Latin American horror that has captivated global audiences,” said Fangoria Studios’ Armen Aghaeian, senior VP of TV + Film, adding: “After all, everyone screams in the same language.”

Now marking its 6th edition at Chile’s prominent Santiago Int’l Film Festival (Sanfic), the lab has lured the likes of Julio Hernandez Cordon this year, best known for his award-winning pics “I Promise You, Anarchy,” “Marimbas from Hell” and “Gasoline.” This time he’s pitching “Cloudspotting” (“Enviame tormentas”), a co-production between Diana Bustamante’s Burning in Colombia and Mexico’s newly launched Somos Maravillosa, led by producers María José Córdova and Triana García Simón.

Long before Superman or even Guardians of the Galaxy, James Gunn was firmly established as a “horror guy,” from his early days writing Tromeo and Juliet for Troma to his feature directorial debut with the horror-comedy Slither. It was Slither that introduced Gunn’s voice as a director worth watching, and Gunn reflects on the monster movie almost twenty years later in an interview conducted for Clark Collis’ upcoming book, Screaming and Conjuring.

1984 Publishing will release Screaming and Conjuring: The Resurrection and Unstoppable Rise of the Modern Horror Movie, a definitive 504-page hardcover that pulls back the curtain on the horror film industry, on September 2, 2025. With the book now available for pre-order, 1984 Publishing has shared an exclusive excerpt with us this week.

As you might have guessed, it’s all about James Gunn’s Slither. Read on to learn more about Slither‘s gooey practical effects and the sequel that...

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Hulu is ready with an entertainment-packed August this year. While we already know all the brilliant films that will be leaving Hulu in the upcoming month, we will also see the premiere of the highly anticipated Alien prequel series and the streaming release of Osgood Perkins‘ The Monkey. Just like every month, Hulu is ready to overload you with great content. So, we’re here to tell you about the 13 new movies and TV shows coming to Hulu in August 2025.

Bob Trevino Likes It (August 5) Credit – Roadside Attractions

Bob Trevino Likes It is a comedy-drama film written and directed by Tracie Laymon. Inspired by Laymon’s own life, the 2024 film follows a young woman searching for her estranged father online, but she soon befriends a different man with the same name. Bob Trevino Likes It stars Barbie Ferreira,...

Whether it's critically acclaimed classics like Die Hardand Pulp Fictionor easy-viewing action flicks like 2022's Gasoline Alley, Bruce Willisand his iconic filmography will always prove popular, especially in light of his illness-induced retirement three years ago. From the latter category, another of Willis' testosterone-fueled action thrillers has found success in 2025, becoming one of the ten most-streamed titles on MGM+ in the U.S., as of July 21, 2025, per FlixPatrol.

That movie is Death Wish, a 2018 remake of the 1974 film of the same name, following Willis' Dr. Paul Kersey as he vows to take revenge on the perpetrators of a horrific crime that left his wife and young daughter the victims of a brutal attack. Also starring Vincent D'Onofrio, Greyhound's Elisabeth Shue, and Law & Order: Organized Crime's Dean Norris, the movie was helmed by Eli Roth, six years before he would bring the disastrous adaptation of Borderlands to the big screen.

MGM+ subscribers cannot get enough of an overlooked action remake starring Bruce Willis. Death Wish, a modern-day remake of the classic Charles Bronson-led action flick, has begun climbing the Top 10 chart on the streaming service.

According to FlixPatrol, as of July 24, Death Wish is ranked No. 8 on MGM+'s Top 10 chart, up one spot from the day before. Released in 2018, Death Wish stars Willis as Dr. Paul Kersey, a Chicago-based surgeon who sets out to exact vengeance on the culprits responsible for attacking his family. The vigilante action thriller also stars Vincent D'Onofrio (Daredevil: Born Again), Elisabeth Shue (The Boys), and Dean Norris (Breaking Bad), among others.

Bronson originated the role of Paul Kersey in the Death Wish franchise, appearing in the first five films — Death Wish (1974), Death Wish II (1982), Death Wish 3 (1985), Death Wish 4: The Crackdown (1987), and Death Wish V: The Face of Death (1994). A remake was announced in 2006; however,...

Exclusive: Gluon Media, which until now has focused on releasing international movies into Latin America, is branching into U.S. distribution.

The Miami Beach-based specialty distributor will kick-off its U.S. operation with the release of The Fantastic Golem Affairs by Spanish film-making duo Burnin’ Percebes, consisting of Juan González and Fernando Martínez.

Gluon, which has acquired all North American rights will open the film at New York’s Quad Cinema on August 29, in the presence of the filmmakers, following select Fantastic Fest Presents screenings at Alamo Drafthouse locations on August 25 and 26. Gluon will release the film on digital and streaming platforms following the theatrical window.

The sci-fi comedy follows Juan, who, after a night of partying, watches helplessly as his friend David drunkenly falls from a terrace. David’s body hits a car hood on the street below and shatters into a thousand pieces.

Since no one else seems shocked by this,...

Vanessa Kirby is on top of the world, doing one massive project after another! From Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning to The Fantastic Four: First Steps, her star power shows no signs of slowing down. After silencing her critics by working on her first superhero film with Marvel, she is not looking to slow things down. The About Time actress has now collaborated with Netflix for her next project, Night Always Comes.

The film’s trailer looks gripping, as Kirby’s character fights for survival and lives a normal life. However, it is easier said than done because the visceral thriller will push her to the edge, taking every necessary action to protect her spot, making every necessary sacrifice.

The Cast and Plot of Night Always Comes

When Netflix decided to drop the trailer of Night Always Comes, the crime thriller connoisseurs were taken aback seeing Vanessa Kirby playing such a gripping character.