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Christopher Reeve's portrayal of Superman will forever remain a benchmark for superhero films. His iconic ability to balance Clark Kent's quiet demeanor with larger-than-life heroism set a new standard for the genre, earning his outings' place among the best Superman movies. Reeve's performances resonate harder decades later, showcasing a deep depth and charisma that has permeated for years and will continue to endure for years to come. It's no surprise every good Superman movie stars Reeve as his forever-lasting legacy in cinema ultimately defined what it means to be a hero.

While he is synonymous with Superman, Reeve's talent extends far beyond the cape. Some of the best Christopher Reeve roles don't even depict him as Superman, although plenty of them do involve him in a cape. This versatility defines the actor's legacy, with Reeve's ability to connect with audiences existing as a testament to his sincerity and depth.

Exclusive: Filmmakers Jacob Wasserman, Adam Donald, and Ant Gentile announced today the launch of Hidden Content, a full-service virtual reality company. The news was unveiled at the Tribeca Film Festival with the world premiere of their first project The Caretaker. The horror anthology series is a narrative 360 Cinema project created by Wasserman and Donald, as well as filmmaker Nicolas Pesce.

The project stars Adelaide Clemens, Tom Lipinski, Clara Wong and Diana Agostini. Max Born and Schuyler Weiss serve as producers while Gentile and Kimberly Parker are executive producers. The pilot was a co-production with RealMotion Inc. and audio services were provided by Hobo Audio.

With The Caretaker marking their first project, Hidden Content will team with film producer and financier Max Born to produce and acquire a slate of Vr films and series, as well as develop a Vr/Ar distribution platform. Wasserman, Donald and Gentile have been working in...

Disturbing, scary tale of an isolated girl who grows into a killer, filmed beautifully in black and white by a debut director who knows his way around a nightmare

The 27-year-old Nicolas Pesce makes a very accomplished debut with this macabre horror nightmare in which the killer is a woman – and that’s a gender issue rare enough in horror to deserve pointing out, and throws into perspective her resemblance to Ed Gein, Norman Bates or Dennis Nilsen. The film has some visual echoes of Grant Wood’s painting American Gothic. A young woman, Francisca (played by Kika Magalhaes, and by Olivia Bond as a little girl) has grown up effectively alone on a remote farm somewhere in the Us, having been raised – or possibly discovered and adopted in sinister circumstances hinted at in the final act – by a Portuguese woman (Diana Agostini) and an elderly man (Paul Nazak).

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Author: Daniel Goodwin

Opting to focus more on building a foreboding mood over an engaging narrative, debut film-maker Nicolas Pesce delivers an austere, redolent debut feature which slightly stirs and disturbs at times but, at a slender seventy six minutes, it is still often shockingly monotonous.

The story (broken down into chapters) focuses on a young girl called Francisca (Olivia Bond): a shy child who lives an isolated, tranquil existence on a remote Portuguese farm with her mother (Diana Agostini) and father (Paul Nazak). Until the day a tormented passer-by, posing as a salesman (Will Brill), enters their lives and adjusts the family dynamics. Teomm unravels with the air of an art-house torture porn b-movie/ graduate film, captured in mucky black and white for extra gothic gravitas, Pesce’s film fails to crack into its protagonist or excavate enough emotion to enrich the narrative. Pesce reduces his audience to the role of passive observers,...

If you haven't yet taken a trip to the farmhouse of frights (of both the physical and psychological variety) in Nicolas Pesce's The Eyes of My Mother, then prepare to mark your calendar, because Magnolia Home Entertainment has set an early March Blu-ray release date for the renowned 2016 film.

Blu-ray.com reports that The Eyes of My Mother will be released on Blu-ray (and fans expect a DVD release as well) on March 7th. Special features and cover art have yet to be revealed, but we'll keep Daily Dead readers updated on further details.

Synopsis: "In their secluded farmhouse, a mother, formerly a surgeon in Portugal, teaches her daughter, Francisca, to understand anatomy and be unfazed by death. One afternoon, a mysterious visitor shatters the idyll of Francisca's family life, deeply traumatizing the young girl, but also awakening unique curiosities. Though she clings to her increasingly reticent father, Francisca's...

Daily Deaders, we are hosting a contest where two of our readers can win a DVD copy of The Unspoken courtesy of Anchor Bay Entertainment. Continue reading for rules and entry details. Also in today's Highlights: three clips and a featurette for The Eyes of My Mother and details on the third annual Scary Christmas Party.

Contest: Win The Unspoken on DVD:

Prize Details: (2) Winners will receive (1) DVD copy of The Unspoken.

How to Enter: For a chance to win, email contest@dailydead.com with the subject “The Unspoken Contest”. Be sure to include your name and mailing address.

Entry Details: The contest will end at 12:01am Est on December 12th. This contest is only open to those who are eighteen years of age or older that live in the United States. Only one entry per household will be accepted.

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And now we’ve arrived at the end of the calendar year. As the final push for year-end viewing continues at a furious pace, some of the last unknown films of 2016 will finally make their way to audiences. To help focus your viewing choices, here is a list of films opening throughout the coming weeks, separated into categories of wide and limited runs. (Synopses are provided by festivals and distributors.)

If you’re interested in what still might be in a theater near you, check out our November Release Guide. For those curious what 2017 might bring, you can also visit our calendar page, which has releases through the beginning of the new year.

Happy watching!

Week of December 2 Wide

Incarnate

Director: Brad Peyton

Cast: Aaron Eckhart, Carice van Houten, Catalina Sandino Moreno, David Mazouz, John Pirruccello, Keir O’Donnell, Matthew Nable

Synopsis: A scientist with the ability to enter the...

"You're just like your mother!" Depending on your age and circumstances, that can be either complementary or derogatory. For Francisca, it's the story of her life. Strikingly presented in black and white, The Eyes of My Mother (Os Olhos de Minha Mãe) follows Francisca from childhood to adulthood as she adapts to changing circumstances in her household. Told in quietly played, funereal tones, the style matches Francisca's personality. Raised on a farm, with no interaction with others, young Francisca (Olivia Bond) is taught to be self-sufficient by her parents. One day a stranger appears, and a common act of neighborly kindness by Francisca's mother (Diana Agostini) leads to tragedy. When Francisca's father (Paul Nazak) arrives home, he commits an act of violent retribution that affects...

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Francisca's dance has an unsettling audience in one of three clips from Nicolas Pesce's The Eyes of My Mother, coming out on VOD and in theaters on December 2nd via Magnet Releasing.

Synopsis: "In their secluded farmhouse, a mother, formerly a surgeon in Portugal, teaches her daughter, Francisca, to understand anatomy and be unfazed by death. One afternoon, a mysterious visitor shatters the idyll of Francisca's family life, deeply traumatizing the young girl, but also awakening unique curiosities. Though she clings to her increasingly reticent father, Francisca's loneliness and scarred nature converge years later when her longing to connect with the world around her takes on a dark form. Shot in crisp black and white, the haunting visual compositions evoke its protagonist's isolation and illuminate her deeply unbalanced worldview. Genre-inflected, but so strikingly unique as to defy categorization, writer/director Nicolas Pesce's feature debut allows only an elliptical presence in Francisca's world,...

Our resident VOD expert tells you what's new to rent and/or own this week via various Digital HD providers such as cable Movies On Demand, Amazon, iTunes, Vudu, Google Play and, of course, Netflix. Cable Movies On Demand: Same-day-as-disc releases, older titles and pretheatrical Don’t Breathe (horror-thriller; Jane Levy, Dylan Minnette, Stephen Lang; rated R) Pete’s Dragon (family adventure; Bryce Dallas Howard, Oakes Fegley; rated PG) The Bfg (family adventure directed by Steven Spielberg; Mark Rylance, Ruby Barnhill; rated PG) Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie (comedy; Jennifer Saunders, Joanna Lumley; rated R) The Wild Life (animated; voices: Matthias Schweighofer, Kaya Yanar; rated PG) The Eyes of My Mother (horror; Diana Agostini, Olivia Bond...

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"You've done this before...? Why do you do it?" Magnolia Pictures has released a second trailer for the B&W indie horror drama The Eyes of My Mother, timed for release on Halloween because it's a twisted little tease that will haunt you well into the night. Diana Agostini plays "Mother" in this nasty horror about a mother who teaches her daughter to be "unfazed by death". The film has been described as a nightmare that is so unsettling and disturbing that many who've seen it want to forget it but can't. The Eyes of My Mother stars Kika Magalhães, Will Brill, Flora Diaz, Paul Nazak, Clara Wong, and Olivia Bond. There's only one scene in this new trailer but if you listen (and look) carefully, you will figure out what's happening. Here's the second official trailer for Nicolas Pesce's The Eyes of My Mother, from Magnolia's YouTube:...

Young Francisca has a creepy conversation with an unsettling stranger in the haunting new trailer for Nicolas Pesce's The Eyes of My Mother.

Synopsis: "In their secluded farmhouse, a mother, formerly a surgeon in Portugal, teaches her daughter, Francisca, to understand anatomy and be unfazed by death. One afternoon, a mysterious visitor shatters the idyll of Francisca's family life, deeply traumatizing the young girl, but also awakening unique curiosities. Though she clings to her increasingly reticent father, Francisca's loneliness and scarred nature converge years later when her longing to connect with the world around her takes on a dark form. Shot in crisp black and white, the haunting visual compositions evoke its protagonist's isolation and illuminate her deeply unbalanced worldview. Genre-inflected, but so strikingly unique as to defy categorization, writer/director Nicolas Pesce's feature debut allows only an elliptical presence in Francisca's world, guiding our imaginations to follow her into peculiar,...

In honor of Halloween, Magnet Releasing offers a creeptastic new trailer for The Eyes Of My Mother, starring Kika Magalhães, Will Brill, Flora Diaz, Paul Nazak, Clara Wong, Diana Agostini, and Olivia Bond.

In their secluded farmhouse, a mother, formerly a surgeon in Portugal, teaches her daughter, Francisca, to understand anatomy and be unfazed by death. One afternoon, a mysterious visitor shatters the idyll of Francisca's family life, deeply traumatizing the young girl, but also awakening unique curiosities. Though she clings to her increasingly reticent father, Francisca's loneliness and scarred nature converge years later when her longing to connect with the world around her takes on a dark form.

Shot in crisp black and white, the haunting visual compositions evoke its protagonist's isolation and illuminate her deeply unbalanced worldview. Genre-inflected, but so strikingly unique as to defy categorization, writer/director Nicolas Pesce's feature debut allows only an elliptical presence in Francisca's world,...

The trailer is now online for Magnet Releasing's The Eyes Of My Mother, starring Kika Magalhães, Will Brill, Flora Diaz, Paul Nazak, Clara Wong, Diana Agostini, and Olivia Bond.

In their secluded farmhouse, a mother, formerly a surgeon in Portugal, teaches her daughter, Francisca, to understand anatomy and be unfazed by death. One afternoon, a mysterious visitor shatters the idyll of Francisca's family life, deeply traumatizing the young girl, but also awakening unique curiosities. Though she clings to her increasingly reticent father, Francisca's loneliness and scarred nature converge years later when her longing to connect with the world around her takes on a dark form.

Shot in crisp black and white, the haunting visual compositions evoke its protagonist's isolation and illuminate her deeply unbalanced worldview. Genre-inflected, but so strikingly unique as to defy categorization, writer/director Nicolas Pesce's feature debut allows only an elliptical presence in Francisca's world, guiding...

2Nd Update (9/23, 3:23 Pdt): An earlier version of this article listed Elle Evans as the actress who plays the title role in The Love Witch. That distinction in fact goes to Samantha Robinson. We regret the error. Update (9/22, 11:37 Pm Pdt): The same day this article was published, Paramount pushed back the release date for Rings from October 28 to February 3, 2017. Original Article: Fall has traditionally been viewed as the prime time of year for the horror film, but this summer was actually a pretty good one for the genre, with movies like The Conjuring 2, Lights Out, and the surprise smash Don't Breathe doing gangbusters business in the midst of blockbuster season. But the year's not over yet! With September in full swing, there are a number of worthwhile (and, yes, questionable) titles looming on the release calendar over the next three months. Below, you can find a rundown of 12 upcoming horror films,...

Gorgeous and grisly, the official trailer and poster for The Eyes of My Mother have been unveiled by Magnet Releasing ahead of the film's December release.

Synopsis: "In their secluded farmhouse, a mother, formerly a surgeon in Portugal, teaches her daughter, Francisca, to understand anatomy and be unfazed by death. One afternoon, a mysterious visitor shatters the idyll of Francisca's family life, deeply traumatizing the young girl, but also awakening unique curiosities. Though she clings to her increasingly reticent father, Francisca's loneliness and scarred nature converge years later when her longing to connect with the world around her takes on a dark form. Shot in crisp black and white, the haunting visual compositions evoke its protagonist's isolation and illuminate her deeply unbalanced worldview. Genre-inflected, but so strikingly unique as to defy categorization, writer/director Nicolas Pesce's feature debut allows only an elliptical presence in Francisca's world, guiding our imaginations to follow her into peculiar,...

"I remember I was fascinated by how an inside of the body looked. She always hoped I would be a surgeon one day." Magnolia has released a trailer for the indie horror titled The Eyes of My Mother, which first premiered at the Sundance Film Festival this year. Diana Agostini plays "Mother" in this creepy horror thriller about a mother who teaches her daughter to be "unfazed by death" - who turns out to be rather freaky as a grown up. The film has been described as a nightmare that is so unsettling and disturbing that many who've seen it want to forget it but can't. It stays in your mind and will haunt you for days, weeks, even months after seeing it. The film stars Kika Magalhães, Will Brill, Flora Diaz, Paul Nazak, Clara Wong, and Olivia Bond. You can get a sense of the gruesomeness and bleakness of the film in this trailer.

Nicolas Pesce’s haunting and unnerving gothic tale, “The Eyes of My Mother,” made waves at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The black-and-white horror film was quickly acquired by Magnet Releasing soon after its premiere, and have now released the first mesmerizing trailer and poster.

The genre piece centers around a mother, formerly a surgeon in Portugal, who teaches her daughter Francisca to understand anatomy and be unfazed by death. After a mysterious visitor shatters the idyll of Francisca’s family life and deeply traumatizes her, it also awakens unique curiosities. Check out the sneak peek below.

Read More: Sundance Review: ‘The Eyes of My Mother’ is the Discovery of This Year’s Festival

Calling it “the discovery of this year’s Sundance” in his A- review, IndieWire’s Eric Kohn praised the feature for its gothic imagery and expressionistic dread, which “mashes its gorgeous components into a shockingly original tone poem.

One of the most divisive films at Sundance this year was Nicolas Pesce‘s The Eyes of My Mother, the latest production from Borderline Films, the team behind the uncompromising character studies Martha Marcy May Marlene, Simon Killer, James White, and more. The film follows a woman whose mother was killed, so she takes revenge in unnerving ways. Ahead of screenings at Fantastic Fest and a theatrical release this December, Magnolia Pictures have now released the first trailer.

We said in our review, “On a personal level, I hated this picture with every fiber of my being. Rarely do I slip into the first-person for these reviews, but for this I make an exception. Hopefully, I will forget the memory of seeing this movie and feeling the way I felt while watching it. In a way, this is a testament to its power and, in another way, a recommendation for...

Like an intoxicating fever dream, writer/director Nicolas Pesce’s The Eyes of My Mother is unlike any film I’ve seen in quite some time, akin to a nightmare you just can’t quite shake off. Breathtakingly shot in black and white, Pesce’s unsettling character study is as heartbreaking as it is depraved, making for an experience that will stay with you long after its gut-wrenching finale.

The Eyes of My Mother starts off innocently enough, introducing a young Francisca (Olivia Bond) as she picks flowers and roams the remote farm she shares with her mother (Diana Agostini) and father (Paul Nazak). There’s a gentleness to Francisca’s world, where she picks flowers and observes nature, but there’s also a bluntness to it as well, as her mother is a former veterinarian who teaches her daughter some of her methods (including decapitating a cow), making for...

The beautiful thing about horror is its ever-shifting form. A heavy-metal gorevalanch like Deathgasm defines one extreme of the genre (raucous over-the-top fun), while A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night (black-and-white, emotional arthouse) spans the opposite side of a wide-reaching spectrum. Horror can seep into any situation, like how first-time filmmaker Nicolas Pesce corrupts a child’s youth in his ever-haunting debut, The Eyes Of My Mother. Black and white? Check. Ominously forbidding and deeply disturbing? Oh yeah. Horror by way of arthouse exploration? You betcha. Hey, who said genre films can’t get experimental every now and then?

Pesce’s film follows the maturation of Francisca, a sweet country girl whose life is stricken by tragedy. At a young age (played by Olivia Bond), Francisca’s mother (Diana Agostini) was murdered as she sat in the room next-door. Her father (Paul Nazak) arrived home too late for a rescue,...

And Soon the Darkness: Pesce’s Debut a Superbly Stylized Nightmare

If Portugal were the portal to some Lynchian netherworld of dreams deferred, it would look something like Nicolas Pesce’s sumptuously grotesque directorial debut, The Eyes of My Mother. A striking palette of black and white cinematography from Zach Kuperstein recalls the scarred, destitute lives from the ruins of Arturo Ripstein’s filmography, a macabre yet uncharacteristically sound portrait of psychological unraveling. We all know the kind of potent degeneration to be fashioned on isolated farmhouses where dysfunctional children are paired with musings of surgical practices, as seen in films from Haneke or even last year’s Goodnight Mommy. Pesce, who previously directed multiple music videos, as well as assistant editor on Josh Mond’s James White (2015), debuts a spectacularly gruesome calling card which may deconstruct the notion of the physical lens through which living beings observe the world,...

Kate Plays ChristineThe lineup for the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, taking place between January 21 -31, has been announced.U.S. Dramatic COMPETITIONAs You Are (Miles Joris-Peyrafitte, USA): As You Are is the telling and retelling of a relationship between three teenagers as it traces the course of their friendship through a construction of disparate memories prompted by a police investigation. Cast: Owen Campbell, Charlie Heaton, Amandla Stenberg, John Scurti, Scott Cohen, Mary Stuart Masterson. World Premiere The Birth of a Nation (Nate Parker, USA): Set against the antebellum South, this story follows Nat Turner, a literate slave and preacher whose financially strained owner, Samuel Turner, accepts an offer to use Nat’s preaching to subdue unruly slaves. After witnessing countless atrocities against fellow slaves, Nat devises a plan to lead his people to freedom. Cast: Nate Parker, Armie Hammer, Aja Naomi King, Jackie Earle Haley, Gabrielle Union, Mark Boone Jr. World PremiereChristine (Antonio Campos,...

The Sundance Film institute has released the line-up of film for the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. Going to Sundance is one of my favorite events of the year. I love going because you never know what kind of movies you're going to see. Sometimes they are great films that amaze and entertain, other times they completely suck ass, but that's all part of the fun of going to the festival. It's an awesome experience for any hardcore movie geek, and if you ever get a chance to go, you need to.

The event takes place in Park City, Utah next year from January 21st to the 31st. It looks like there's a great line-up of movies at next year's event. My favorite portion of the event is the Midnight section because it deals more with geeky genre type movies, but I also enjoy the various sections of other line-ups.

Some of...

We might look back to 2015’s 10 film line-up as a true vintage year for the Next section. With the likes of Rick Alverson’s Entertainment, Sebastián Silva’s Nasty Baby, Matt Sobel’s Take Me to the River, Sean Baker’s Tangerine and section winner Josh Mond’s James White, we’d be hard pressed to say that this year’s 10 selected film selection is a better crop, but so far with names such as Tim Sutton and his super secretive third film (Dark Night – see pic above), video helmer we adore in Nicolas Pesce’s debut (The Eyes of My Mother), short film Yearbook fest winner Bernardo Britto’s first (Jacqueline Argentine), big Slamdance home run hitter with The Dirties’ Matt Johnson (Operation Avalanche) and the Venice to Park City bound The Fits from Anna Rose Holmer are all films we eagerly await. Here is the 10 section of what the fest calls “pure,...

Titles include Tallulah starring Ellen Page and Allison Janney, and Chad Hartigan’s Morris From America (pictured); Next strand also announced.Scroll down for full list

Sundance Institute has announced the 65 films selected for the Us Competition, World Competition and out-of-competition Next categories set to screen at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival (Jan 21-31) in Park City.

Us Dramatic Competition selections include Sian Heder’s Tallulah with Ellen Page and Allison Janney; Antonio Campos’ Christine; Clea DuVall’s feature directorial debut The Intervention; and Richard Tanne’s Southside With You, about Barack Obama’s first date with the First Lady.

Among the Us Documentary Competition selections are: Holy Hell by undisclosed; Jeff Feuerzeig’s Author: The Jt LeRoy Story; and Sara Jordenö’s Kiki.

The World Cinema Dramatic Competition entries include: Belgica (Belgium-France-Netherlands), Felix van Groeningen’s follow-up to The Broken Circle Breakdown; Manolo Cruz and Carlos del Castillo’s Between Sea And Land (Colombia); and Nicolette Krebitz’s Wild...