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Laia Costa will also star in Lee Cronin’s The Mummy, the Atomic Monster/Blumhouse production for New Line that just started shooting in Ireland. Cronin’s Doppelgängers banner is also producing. Costa joins Jack Reynor, who was recently announced, in the film.

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— Lee Cronin (@curleecronin) March 24, 2025

The film, which is still keeping its logline under wraps, is written and directed by Cronin, and marks the first collaboration for the recently combined companies, helmed by James Wan and Jason Blum, with Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group. The film will be released on April 17, 2026.

Laia Costa starred in the critically-acclaimed, single-take film, Victoria, for which she won the Lola (Germany’s equivalent of the Oscar®) for “Best Actress” and was nominated for a European Film Award for “Best European Actress” and the prestigious BAFTA Ee Rising Star Award. Film credits include Only You with Josh O’Connor,...

Wayne Brady had to check on a Let’s Make a Deal contestant to ensure she could proceed with the game.

The game show host often has fun with contestants on stage and thoroughly enjoys giving away great prizes.

Sometimes contestants go wild with their celebrations on Lmad and other game shows, like The Price Is Right.

It’s not uncommon to see people tackle the hosts with big hugs, dance with them, or roll on the ground in excitement.

A significant prize was on the line for a contestant dressed as an avocado during a recent Lmad episode.

Before learning about her prize, she praised Wayne as a “legend” and said everyone appreciates “the legacy [he’s] leaving and paving the way.”

Lmad’s prize reveal caused a contestant to become emotional

“Tiffany, what’s behind curtain number one? I think you’re gonna like this,” Wayne said during the new episode.

All About Cardi B’s Shocking New Piercing ( Photo Credit – Instagram )

Cardi B kicked off 2025 with quite the unexpected revelation — and a bold new body modification. On Monday, the rapper took to X, casually sharing the news: “Soooo …….i got my butt crack pierced...

It’s been said that all monster movies fit into at least one of three categories. Werewolf movies play on the notion that within every man lives a beast waiting to be unleashed. Vampire films tap into our collective fear of the unknown, which can encompass everything from the threat of disease to the perception of strangers as potential predators. And Frankenstein stories explore the risks when man plays God, creating life and facing the consequences.

Blumhouse’s shrewd 2020 reboot of the classic Universal horror film “The Invisible Man” cleverly played off the latter two, as Elisabeth Moss embodied a woman trying to escape an abusive relationship with a mad scientist. Directed by Leigh Whannell, the low-budget thriller was so successful that Universal rushed to adapt other titles from its classic monsters catalog, imagining a “Dark Universe” series that would update — and eventually connect — them all.

Somewhere along the way,...

Marin Ireland has long been a powerhouse of talent since her first onscreen role in 2003, and is best known for her roles in TV shows like Sneaky Pete (2015-2019) and The Umbrella Academy (2019-2024), movies like Eileen (2023) and Piercing (2018), and was nominated for a Tony Award for her role in the play Reasons to be Pretty. But since 2020, she’s carved out a compelling niche in contemporary indie horror. With standout performances in films like The Dark and the Wicked (2020), The Empty Man (2020), Birth/Rebirth (2023), The Boogeyman (2023), and Somewhere Quiet (2023), Ireland has become a defining presence in the genre. While her acting style is often more in-tune with stage acting, she’s able to brilliantly utilize it for the big screen to enhance her performances and emotional impact.

Every culture puts its own unique spin on horror tropes, with people from different times and places being frightened by different things. One of the most fascinating examples of this occurred during the 60s-70s in Italy, with a group of genre filmmakers collectively deciding that, to them, horror meant gory whodunnits with surreal visuals and blood that looked more like paint than corn syrup.

And while that initial Giallo movement has long since faded into obscurity (with modern audiences being less receptive to obvious dubbing and cheesy practical effects), there are still some intrepid filmmakers out there who are attempting to keep the spirit of the genre alive with neo-Giallo productions meant to remind us that horror movies don’t always have to be realistic. And in honor of these stylishly retro features, we’ve decided to come up with a list celebrating six modern-day Giallo flicks for your viewing pleasure.

The Nagakiba is a melee armament in the Katana class in Elden Ring, closely related to its counterpart sword, the Uchigatana. It features an exceptionally long blade and offers enhanced blood loss buildup compared to its sibling sword. Players can acquire the Nagakiba through various interactions with the Npc Bloody Finger Hunter Yura, easily recognizable in his large metal hat and full Ronin Gear.

Upon your first encounter with Yura in Limgrave, you can either complete Yura's questline to receive the Nagakiba Katana as a reward or choose to confront and defeat him to acquire the weapon more swiftly. The decision rests with the player, depending on whether they seek additional rewards beyond the Katana. Each method, however, demands an element of patience.

Related Elden Ring: All Bell Bearing Hunter Locations To find all Bell Bearing Hunters in Elden Ring, locate them at various merchant shacks and rest at the...

Both his directorial debut in the glorious micro-budgeted B&w house-of-horrors and in the Portuguese language The Eyes Of My Mother (read review) and his sophomore S&m feature Piercing (2018) got some Park City love so after a stint in studio items, Nicolas Pesce might actually return for a three-peat. Visitation is a horror project that came to light back in January of this year and stars Olivia Cooke and Isla Johnston (“The Queen’s Gambit” series). The project sees Pesce re-team with cinematographer Zack Galler and we could find some lush moody gothic backdrops as production took place in Ireland. This was written by Helen Gaughran.…...

Sometimes, when you’re looking to be entertained, only a thriller will cut it. If you ever find yourself feeling like life is getting inexplicably dark, and morality is becoming more ambiguous, immersing yourself in a tense world of serial killers, terrorists, and crooked sleazebags of all kinds is a pretty great form of escapism. The genre is broad enough to encompass a wide variety of tropes, so you could probably watch thrillers forever and never get bored.

Netflix’s thriller offerings are surprisingly well-rounded, offering a good mix of undisputed classics from the likes of Quentin Tarantino and Paul Greengrass as well as newer indie flicks that you may have missed. Whether you’re looking to revisit an old favorite, fill an embarrassing gap in your movie knowledge, or find something new and cutting-edge that will blow your mind, the genre always has something for you. Keep reading for...

Christopher Abbott has quietly become one of the more respected actors on the indie-film scene, and his latest film, Sanctuary, is yet another example why.

Written by Micah Bloomberg and directed by Zachary Wigon, Sanctuary certainly has the trappings of a contained psychological thriller, but it’s ultimately a twisted romcom about power dynamics, starring Abbott and Margaret Qualley. Abbott plays Hal Porterfield, a hotel heir who decides to end his relationship with Rebecca (Qualley), a Denver dominatrix, now that he’s taking the reins of his family’s company. However, Rebecca doesn’t react well to the news or the severance package being offered, given her role in Hal’s success.

Abbott’s characters are often put through the wringer, physically and psychologically, and the Connecticut native also isn’t afraid of humiliation on screen, something Sanctuary reaffirms when Hal is asked by Rebecca to scrub the bathroom floor in his underwear.

Principal photography has wrapped in Spain’s La Rioja region on Isabel Coixet’s romantic drama “Un Amor,” a tale of obsessive passion that forces the film’s protagonist to reconsider the woman she thought she was. The 2023 Goya actress winner Laia Costa (“Lullaby”) stars opposite Hovik Keuchkerian (“Money Heist”); Film Constellation handles world sales. A sales promo will be unveiled for buyers in Cannes.

Based on the best-selling novel by Sara Mesa, selected by influential Spanish newspaper “El PaÍs” as Spain’s 2020 Book of the Year and translated into 13 languages internationally, “Un Amor” turns on Nat (Costa), 30, a translator who escapes the big city to start anew in the countryside.

Taking refuge in La Escapa, a hamlet, isolated by the hostility of her landlord and villagers’ distrust, she surprises herself by accepting an unsettling sexual proposal from neighbor Andreas. “From this strange and conflicting encounter sparks a devouring and...

Neon will be giving the darkly comedic thriller Sanctuary a limited theatrical release on May 19th, with a wider expansion to follow on June 2nd. And since those dates aren’t very far away at this point, they have unveiled a trailer for the film, which you can check out in the embed above.

Directed by Zachary Wigon (The Heart Machine) from a screenplay by Micah Bloomberg, co-creator of the Amazon Prime Video series Homecoming, Sanctuary has the following synopsis: A wickedly dark comedy follows dominatrix, Rebecca (Margaret Qualley), and her wealthy client, Hal (Christopher Abbott), as they engage in a high stakes role playing game for power and control. In the wake of inheriting his father’s hotel chain, Hal attempts to end his long and secret relationship with Rebecca. A battle of wills ensues over the course of one incredibly fraught night, with both Rebecca and Hal struggling...

Fresh off her 2023 Goya best actress win for “Lullaby” on Saturday night,” Laia Costa is set to star in the passionate romance drama “Un Amor,” by multi-prized Spanish filmmaker Isabel Coixet.

Film Constellation, the London and now Paris-based production, finance & sales company, will introduce the new production to buyers at thus and next week’s Berlin European Film Market.

Distributor of Berlin competition entry “20,000 Species if Bees” and La Maternal, a San Sebastian best leading performance winner for Carla Quílez, BTeam Pictures will handle the film’s release in Spain.

Written by Spanish novelist and short-story writer Laura Ferrero and Coixet, “Un Amor” is based on an admired novel by Sara Mesa. A fiction study of emotional dependence in which Mesa returns to the themes of power and subjugation which thread much of her work, “Un Amor” was selected by Spanish newspaper El Pais as Spain’s 2020 book of the year.

Kit Harington is set to star in Fulwell 73’s biopic of Mary Shelley, titled “Mary’s Monster.

Variety first broke the news that the film was in pre-production earlier this year.

Fulwell 73 have teamed with Rose Pictures on the feature, which will go into production in the U.K. this summer.

Clara Rugaard (“I Am Mother”) will play Shelley while Harington is set to play the monster. Ferdia Walsh-Peelo (“Coda”) has also joined the cast as Shelley’s husband Percy Bysshe Shelley while Sebastian De Souza (“Normal People”) will play the couple’s friend Lord Byron.

As Variety revealed in January, Farren Blackburn (“Daredevil”) will direct based on a screenplay by Deborah Baxtrom (“Living With Frankenstein”). Stephen Hallett co-writes.

Marius de Vries (“La La Land”) has boarded as executive music producer and executive producer; Fulwell 73’s Leo Pearlman and Heather Greenwood will produce, alongside Rose Picture’s Rose Ganguzza (“Afterschool...

Considering the raw, uncomfortable truths found in Jerrod Carmichael’s comedy, the logline of his directorial debut shouldn’t come as a surprise: two friends make a pact to end their lives and experience one final day together before plans to carry through with the dual deeds. Though not scripted by Carmichael himself, The Carmichael Show writer-producer Ari Katcher and his Ramy co-writer Ryan Welch have crafted a character-focused story with layers of necessary darkness and pathos while still injecting humor that mostly feels like a natural fit considering the subject matter. As to be expected, Taste of Cherry this is not, but with its layers of despair and dark comedy mixed with genuine friendship, Carmichael owes a bit to Mikey and Nicky in this ride-or-die, last-day-in-a-life outing. Even if the last act doesn’t succeed as intended, On the Count of Three threads the difficult task of finding the...

Our effort to review all the novels and movies deriving from the work of Haruki and Ryu Murakami for “The Two Murakamis Project” inevitably brings us across non-Asian productions, and in this case upon Hollywood. Let us see how “Piercing” was “translated” in American cinema.

As in the book, the main protagonist, in this case Reed, is a man whose pervasion with using an ice pick to pierce people, becomes evident from the beginning, as we watch him moving around his newborn baby, holding the instrument in his hand. His wife interrupts him, and the depiction of a sociopathic man who has managed to transform his perversion perfectly comes to the fore. This sense is intensified even more as we watch him planning in detail how to kill a prostitute, before his preparations take him to a hotel room, and eventually, face-to-face with an S&m sex worker,...

In a review of “From Fatherland, with Love” in the Financial Times, David Pilling wrote, “If Haruki is The Beatles of Japanese literature, Ryu is its Rolling Stones”. “Piercing” with the level of analysis of its characters, who are radically different from the ones in the former’s analysis, is a testament to this statement.

The main character of the novel is Kawashima Masayuki, a man whose perversion, despite the fact that he is married and has a baby girl, becomes evident from the first pages of the book, as Murakami chillingly narrates what can only be described as his desire to use an ice pick on the baby. As his thoughts are presented with agonizing detail, we gradually learn of a man whose past of abuse has shaped him in the most perverse ways, but also made him able to mask his true nature to the highest degree.

It might feel just a bit strange to be talking about a reboot of an American remake to a sequel, but that's exactly what viewers got when The Grudge (2020) was released. Directed by Nicolas Pesce, who is well-known for his previous art-house outings in films like Piercing and The Eyes Of My Mother, which were both released to great critical acclaim at Sundance.

Related: 10 Horror Movies To Watch If You Like The Grudge

This film didn't get the greatest of responses, either from critics or from the audience, but that doesn't mean it's all bad. Today, we'll be weighing what exactly the film did right, and what it didn't exactly hit the mark on.

October has been great for Netflix subscribers who are also horror fans, as the service has done a fantastic job of offering up plenty of freaky and unsettling new content just in time for Halloween. Adam Sandler’s comedy-horror flick Hubie Halloween, dramatic and cerebral series The Haunting of Bly Manor, and this week’s terrifying psychological horror film His House should be enough to keep you busy for a while.

That said, if you’re really a fan of creepy content, you’re probably wondering what Netflix is going to have to offer now that Halloween has almost come and gone. But fret not, as the platform is bringing a handful of eerie new things your way in November, too, so be ready to stay spooked.

The premiere season of Paranormal launches on November 5th, and it’s certainly shaping up to be worth checking out. Based on the books by Ahmed Khaled Tawfik,...

Netflix is adding a ton of great titles over the next seven days. From Monday to Sunday, the streaming giant is unleashing some new Halloween-related originals for you to dig into as we approach October 31st, while it’s an usually busy weekend for the site, too, as Sunday marks November 1st, meaning a load of newly licensed movies and shows are being added to Netflix’s library.

Unfortunately, they aren’t bringing us anything fresh on Monday or Thursday, but the rest of the week is well-stocked. As you can see below, Tuesday the 27th delivers three new originals. The highlight of that day’s haul, though, has to be Blood of Zeus, the much-anticipated anime-style series that’s adapting classic Greek myths. Jason O’Mara, Jessica Henwick and Claudia Christian star.

For more, here’s the full list of what’s hitting the service this week:

Coming to Netflix...

The independent sales and production company Highland Film Group led by Arianne Fraser and Delphine Perrier is launching a U.S. theatrical distribution arm called The Avenue Entertainment and has appointed JJ Caruth as The Avenue’s president of domestic marketing and distribution, Highland Film Group announced Wednesday.

The Avenue will handle theatrical distribution of six to eight titles per year, and the new venture will also partner with Paramount Home Entertainment to handle the distribution of Blu-Ray, DVD, VOD and digital titles.

Caruth will be responsible for overall acquisitions, marketing and distribution for The Avenue, and the company will both acquire and produce its own films. Highland Film Sales will also provide financial support for films with global appeal.

The first movie released under the new stand-alone distribution banner is “Jiu Jitsu,” a martial arts and sci-fi film that stars Nicolas Cage and Frank Grillo. The film is directed...

Exclusive: Highland Film Group is launching The Avenue Entertainment, a new U.S. theatrical distribution arm with industry veteran JJ Caruth as President of Domestic Marketing & Distribution. The Avenue will handle theatrical distribution of six to eight titles per year and has signed an agreement with Paramount Home Entertainment to handle Blu-ray, DVD, VOD, and Digital distribution.

In her new role, Caruth will oversee the overall acquisitions, marketing and distribution strategy for The Avenue. This role links content from filmmakers to distribution throughout the product lifecycle to maximize the commercial success of each release. Highland Film Sales will provide financial support for films with global appeal.

“I am thrilled to be joining The Avenue at a time of great change, evolution and exciting opportunity in our industry,” said Caruth. “Arianne [Fraser] and Delphine [Perrier] have impeccable relationships with filmmakers which creates the perfect springboard for this new distribution venture.”

“For 10 years, Highland...

Carrie Coon delivered one of the all-time great television performances in her three-season run on HBO’s “The Leftovers,” and fans have been waiting for the actress to deliver the same dazzling tour-de-force on the big screen. Coon earned acclaim for her feisty supporting turn in David Fincher’s “Gone Girl” and had roles in “The Post” and “Widows,” but this fall Coon will get the leading film role she deserves. The actress and Jude Law headline “The Nest,” the long-awaited second feature from “Martha Marcy May Marlene” director Sean Durkin.

The official synopsis from IFC Films reads: “Rory (Law), an ambitious entrepreneur and former commodities broker … persuades his American wife, Allison (Coon), and their children to leave the comforts of suburban America and return to his native England during the 1980s. Sensing opportunity, Rory rejoins his former firm and leases a centuries-old country manor, with grounds for Allison’s...

Carrie Coon delivered one of the all-time great television performances in her three-season run on HBO’s “The Leftovers,” and fans have been waiting for the actress to deliver the same dazzling tour-de-force on the big screen. Coon earned acclaim for her feisty supporting turn in David Fincher’s “Gone Girl” and had roles in “The Post” and “Widows,” but this fall Coon will get the leading film role she deserves. The actress and Jude Law headline “The Nest,” the long-awaited second feature from “Martha Marcy May Marlene” director Sean Durkin.

The official synopsis from IFC Films reads: “Rory (Law), an ambitious entrepreneur and former commodities broker … persuades his American wife, Allison (Coon), and their children to leave the comforts of suburban America and return to his native England during the 1980s. Sensing opportunity, Rory rejoins his former firm and leases a centuries-old country manor, with grounds for Allison’s...

Actress Mirrah Foulkes makes her directorial debut with “Judy & Punch,” a violent and revisionist tale that looks more like “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” goes to the puppet show than your classic Punch and Judy story. The period piece, which launched at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2019 and was followed by a robust tour on the festival circuit, finally hits theaters in the U.S. on April 24, courtesy of Samuel Goldwyn Films.

Set in an anarchic town known as Seaside, which happens to be nowhere near the sea, married puppeteers Judy (Mia Wasikowska) and Punch (Damon Herriman) are struggling to resurrect their marionette show. The show is a hit thanks to Judy’s deft puppeteering skills but due to Punch’s jealousy-fueled ambition — and his tendency to hit the bottle too hard — the show is thrust into tragedy. Foulkes’ updated take on the classic 16th-century puppet show,...

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Star Trek's John Cho delves into supernatural horror for the first time with this reboot of the Japanese/American franchise.

The Grudge is one of the strangest franchises in horror film history: the series encompasses nine Japanese films (starting with the original direct-to-video Ju-On back in 2000) and now four American ones. The newest, simply titled The Grudge, is the 13th overall and deals like the others with the central premise of the entire series: if someone dies in a rage, that rage lingers as a kind of supernatural virus that can infect and destroy anyone who comes in contact with it.

A sort of reboot/sequel, The Grudge is directed and written by Nicolas Pesce, who has created a buzz on the horror scene with his first two features, The Eyes of My Mother (2016) and Piercing (2018). Pesce’s take on The Grudge is the first of...

Updated with Disney figures: Early morning estimates show Disney’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker crossing the $400 million mark stateside with $407.6M after a New Year’s Day of $17M. That take bests the January 1 cash of The Last Jedi ($14.2M) and Rogue One ($16.75M). Skywalker ranks fourth among the highest-grossing New Years Days behind The Force Awakens, Avatar ($25.2M, 2010), and Meet the Fockers ($18.2M, 2005).

In regards to its running cume, Skywalker went from being 2% behind Last Jedi on Sunday to being 8% behind in its first 13 days through Wednesday. Part of that stems from big box office days like Christmas and New Year’s falling later in Last Jedi‘s run. By its 16th day of release, on December 30, Last Jedi flew past the half-billion mark at the domestic box office. With Skywalker coming off a bigger Christmas than Last Jedi — $32.1M to $27.4M — box office sources aggressively...

One of the major draws behind The Grudge is that it’s being directed by Nicolas Pesce, a singular filmmaker who’s known for his eye catching visual compositions. With just an indie budget for his previous features The Eyes of My Mother and Piercing, Pesce created immersive worlds that left an indelible impression on many a [...]

The post Director Nicolas Pesce’s Visual Strengths Highlight Terror Behind ‘The Grudge’ appeared first on Hollywood Outbreak.

I grew up as a kid of the 80s and 90s, and while I was in junior-school I found a series of books called Point Horror. A range of horror titles for young readers written by a variety of authors, Point Horror became a bit of an early 90s fad and many kids of my age back then were reading them and swapping them. All these years later, I’m still a fan of Point Horror. A good reason for that is the nostalgia I have for the books, but I also have a lot of love for some of the stories themselves too. There’s a real throwback tone to many of the stories, yet there’s some scary, cool and interesting things going on in many of the books. With authors like Diane Hoh, Carol Ellis, Richie Tankersley Cusick and R.L. Stine, who would go on to create the world of Goosebumps,...

After making his mark on indie horror with his 2016 feature directorial debut “The Eyes of My Mother,” director Nicolas Pesce is going studio for the first time with Sony’s 2020 horror release “The Grudge.” The movie, also written by Pesce, is based on Takashi Shimizu’s 2003 Japanese horror film “Ju-On,” which inspired a 2004 English-language remake directed by Shimizu and starring Sarah Michelle Gellar. Unlike Gellar’s PG-13 rated horror film, Pesce and Sony are going with a hard R rating for “The Grudge” this time around, which should be welcoming news for fans of Pesce’s grisly and disturbing “The Eyes of My Mother.”

When asked at New York Comic Con how his “Grudge” would be different from all the previous movies in the franchise (the 2004 movie spawned two sequels), Pesce promised Sony’s openness to an R rating would result in the most disturbing “Grudge” yet. “The movie’s way more fucked up,...

Welcome to The Witching Hour! Collider’s horror podcast, co-created and co-hosted by Editor and Horror Lead Haleigh Foutch and Senior Editorial Producer Perri Nemiroff. On this week's episode, we're breaking down the best 2019 horror movies so far. Now that we're halfway through the year, in the thick of the summer horror season, it's time to look back on our favorites of the year so far, from the theatrical hits like Us and Annabelle Comes Home to indie gems like Climax and Piercing, and even a few titles to look forward to in …...

After the phenomenal The Eyes of My Mother, Nicolas Pesce created one of the most talked about festival hits of last year with Piercing, an adaptation of Japanese novelist Ryū Murakami’s novel of the same name. Critics and audiences alike were drawn to the dark and stylish horror thriller, which saw Christopher Abbott and Mia […] The post Dread X: Nicolas Pesce on 10 Movies That Inspired Piercing appeared first on Dread Central.

With March in full swing, we have another big batch of horror headed home this week that genre fans should keep an eye out for, including one of my most anticipated releases of the month: Scream Factory’s Collector’s Edition of The Craft (so excited to call the corners with this new Blu-ray!). Beyond that, we have even more great titles to get excited about, including the criminally underseen Kolobos from Arrow Video, Man’s Best Friend, featuring one of my favorites—Ally Sheedy—and Nicolas Pesce’s Piercing, which features some brilliant performances from the likes of Mia Wasikowska and Christopher Abbott.

Other Blu-ray and DVD releases for March 12th include Garden Party Massacre, She Wolf, The Greasy Strangler: Special Director’s Edition, Lifechanger, Silk Scream, and The Wild Pussycat.

The Craft: Collector’s Edition (Scream Factory, Blu-ray)

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Stars: Christopher Abbott, Mia Wasikowska, Laia Costa, Marin Ireland, Maria Dizzia, Wendell Pierce | Written and Directed by Nicolas Pesce

Christopher Abbott and Mia Wasikowska star in Piercing, a deliciously dark psycho-sexual horror; the second feature from director Nicolas Pesce (The Eyes of my Mother). Adapted from a novel by Ryû Murakami (who wrote the source material for Takashi Miike’s Audition), the film is shot through with a jet-black sense of humour and a sensibility that recalls Steven Shainberg’s Secretary in more ways than one.

Abbott (It Comes At Night) stars as Reed, a new dad who’s first glimpsed psyching himself up to stab his infant daughter with an ice-pick, unbeknownst to his young wife, Mona, played by Laia Costa (Victoria). When a demonic voice from the baby informs him that he knows what he has to do, Reed tells his wife he’s off on a business...

Joe Cornish returns with his second feature.

Joe Cornish’s sophomore feature The Kid Who Would Be King opens in UK cinemas this weekend, with Warner Bros’ sequel The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part currently holding the number one spot.

Cornish previously directed 2011 inner city sci-fi Attack The Block starring Screen Star of Tomorrow 2011 John Boyega. The film opened to £1.1m in May 2011 with a £3,221 screen average, going on to hit £2.5m in the UK.

Fantasy adventure The Kid Who Would Be King stars Louis Ashbourne Serkis (son of actor Andy Serkis) as a young boy who discovers he...

Nicolas Pesce is inspired by Italian sexploitation horror-thrillers of the 70s in this outre film about a man whose murderous desires are thwarted

If you saw Takashi Miike’s 1999 film Audition (based on a novel by Ryū Murakami) and enjoyed its sadomasochistic mind games and bizarre violence, then get out the gimp suit and the rubbing alcohol and get ready for Piercing, an adaptation, this time in English, of another sick-puppy concoction from Murakami. This one also features men with twisted misogynist desires who come up against a young woman who isn’t quite what she seems. It’s like some infernal cinematic machine designed to generate a rarefied kind of aesthetic nausea, fascinating but also a little morally dubious.

Christopher Abbott stars as Reed, a new father who kisses his wife (Laia Costa) and baby daughter goodbye and goes off – supposedly – on a business trip. What he’s really...

One of my earliest introductions to J-horror cinema was Takashi Miike’s chilling Audition (1999), which turned a widower’s dating life into hell. It’s no coincidence that The Eyes of My Mother director Nicolas Pesce‘s psychological thriller Piercing looks in the same vein – the film is based on Audition writer Ryu Murakami’s 1994 novel of the same name! Bloody Disgusting learned today that the […]...

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Ring (aka Ringu), Hideo Nakata's film has been fully restored and will have a limited run in over 100 theaters in the UK. Continue reading for a full list of theaters. Also in today's Horror Highlights: details on The Final Girls' short film showcase We Are the Weirdos, Dee Wallace and Courtney Gains join the cast of Await the Dawn, and Blu-ray and DVD release details for Piercing.

Ring (aka Ringu) 20th Anniversary UK Screenings: "To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Ring, a special restoration of the film will be showing at 100+ cinemas across the UK including the Prince Charles Cinema (21st Feb), and Vue, Odeon, Cineworld and Showcase Cinemas from 1st March 2019.

For a full list of showtimes, check out the official Ring website: http://ringfilm.co.uk/showtimes

Synopsis: A group of teenage friends is found dead, their bodies grotesquely contorted,...

A lot of people rolled their eyes when it was announced that there would be another reboot of the Japanese horror film The Grudge. But apparently this new film is going to bring us something very different and unexpected.

According to director Nicolas Pesce (Piercing), the new film is going to be more of a police thriller like David Fincher’s Seven rather than a standard ghost story. While talking to EW in a recent interview, he offered up some new details saying, “It’s a very different take on The Grudge than you know it from the past,” and added:

“We see what’s doing well now and it is these kind of smarter, more nuanced horror stories, and that’s what this is going to be. We’re trying to update it for contemporary sensibilities, and we have an unbelievable cast, and I think it’s going to be something very different.

Welcome back to the weekly box office report! Each Sunday, expect a look at what made the most money in theaters, as well as just how all of the new releases fared. This week, Miss Bala entered the marketplace, hoping to be the one to dethrone the current box office champion. How did it do? Let us take a look right now, though it’s worth mentioning that this was the worst Super Bowl weekend box office in decades, so temper your expectations… The top spot this weekend once again went to the returning champ in Glass, though this time around, it could be considered a bit of a surprise. For this frame, it took in just about $9.5 million. That haul represents another big drop, this one of nearly 50%, Currently, it stands at an overall total of $88.6 million. M. Night Shyamalan retains the crown today for another week, though next time around,...

With Sundance Film Festival 2019 in the rearview (all of our coverage here), it’s time to look at the promising films of February. An eclectic selection of major blockbusters, foreign highlights, and American indies, there’s something for everyone this month. See our picks below.

Matinees to See: The Gospel of Eureka (2/8), The Man Who Killed Hitler And Then The Bigfoot (2/8), The Unicorn (2/15), (2/15), How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2/22), Paddleton (2/22)

15. Alita: Battle Angel (Robert Rodriguez; Feb. 14)

Developed as a James Cameron directing vehicle, he was a bit too consumed with his Avatar sequels to helm Alita: Battle Angel so he stepped down to be a producer and give over the reins to Robert Rodriguez. Despite the first trailers selling more of a generic visual effects-heavy drama, hopefully there is something stranger under the surface in this adaptation of Yukito Kishiro’s work, following a non-human awakening with virtually no memory.

Reed (Christopher Abbott) wants to stab somebody. Sorry, wrong word — he needs to stab somebody. Standing over his baby in the middle of the night, wielding an ice pick perilously close to the infant’s neck, the man can feel this urge overwhelming him. Luckily, his wife (Laia Costa) wakes up and tells him to come back to bed. But Reed knows he has to scratch this pathological itch somehow. “You know what you have to do, right?” his nine-month-old asks him in a deep, warped-sounding voice. That’s the...

Nicolas Pesce‘s highly anticipated sophomore film is what several will call a film lover’s delight. While his debut film (The Eyes of My Mother) which was also featured at the fest was more macabre in detail and more disturbing in tone, with Piercing, Pesce leaves no white space as he paints this canvas with every color in the filmmaker’s toolbox (with glorious production design by Alan Lampert). A gleefully and heavily stylized, art-deco friendly homage to the source material, the original film and a whole slew of filmmakers (e.g.: De Palma) who’ve contributed to films that play with the knifes and with darkest human desire, this titillating essay on sadomasochistic and the human psyche played really well for the Midnight crowd on hand.…...

Courtship is a curious affair, but it’s never more peculiar than when shared between two psychopaths. Such is the set up for writer-director Nicolas Pesce’s unexpected The Eyes of My Mother followup, Piercing, which pits two misaligned misanthropes against each other in a seduction to the death. Christopher Abbott stars as Reed, a businessman with a loving family who just wants to kill somebody. He hovers above his baby’s crib, ice pick in hand, pondering the inconceivable when his doting wife (Laia Costa) unknowingly interjects and soothes him, at least for a second, until the baby …...

With his debut film The Eyes of My Mother writer-director Nicolas Pesce crafted an isolated piece of cinema steeped in psychopathy, trauma, and suggestions of graphic violence. Instantly, it was clear he was a new voice in genre cinema, with the film premiering at Sundance in 2016 and demonstrating a strong grasp on atmosphere and stark terror. With his second film Piercing Pesce adapts Ryū Murakami’s novel of the same name. Here, Pesce paints a different picture from a similar easel as Eyes: chimes of exploitation cinema and a fumbling central psychopath collide with recurring themes of isolation and severely repressed trauma.

Now, there’s a playful edge to things; talking babies, trauma bugs, and murder-as-performance all texture a film of squeaky-clean psychopathy and squelchy-bloodletting. It’s pitch-black comedy, and it’s sure to polarize. Piercing signifies a director who is pushing himself to experiment, torment, and not fear getting messy.

Gina Rodriguez stars in Miss Bala, an action-thriller about a young woman who must kick it into full gear when her friend goes missing in Tijuana, Mexico.

In addition to seeing Rodriguez in action, theatergoers can also watch Arctic, an adventurous story of how two plane crash survivors plan to make it back to civilization, in select theaters. Or maybe the Sundance film Piercing, a suspenseful thriller that follows the twisted intentions of a husband with a psychotic secret.

Read on to see what critics from The Hollywood Reporter had to say about this weekend’s film releases.

Gina Rodriguez stars in Miss Bala, an action-thriller about a young woman who must kick it into full gear when her friend goes missing in Tijuana, Mexico.

In addition to seeing Rodriguez in action, theatergoers can also watch Arctic, an adventurous story of how two plane crash survivors plan to make it back to civilization, in select theaters. Or maybe the Sundance film Piercing, a suspenseful thriller that follows the twisted intentions of a husband with a psychotic secret.

Read on to see what critics from The Hollywood Reporter had to say about this weekend’s film releases.

Mia Wasikowska‘s latest film, “Piercing,” is a most unconventional love story between two highly disturbed individuals. “Piercing” is Nicolas Pesce‘s followup to his critically acclaimed directorial debut, “The Eyes of My Mother,” and a warmup for his hotly anticipated upcoming “Grudge” remake, which comes out in 2020. Although it isn’t a role we’re used to seeing Wasikowska in, she commands the character with ease, reminding audiences of her impressive range.

Continue reading Mia Wasikowska On ‘Piercing,’ Watching Horror Films, Working With Mia Hansen-Løve & More [Interview] at The Playlist.

To call writer-director Nicolas Pesce’s psychosexual thriller “Piercing” confounding would be an understatement. This sophomore effort from the filmmaker behind the gripping horror offering “The Eyes of My Mother” is as much an interesting subversion of how sex workers have been depicted in film as it is an off-putting erotic drama that falls apart at the seams.

That’s a shame, because “The Eyes of My Mother” is a provocative tale that pulls the audience in right away, and Christopher Abbot (“Vox Lux”) is currently one of our most underrated actors. He stars as a hitman named Reed, who’s so anxious about his next assignment that he’s up late the night before practicing on his sleeping baby. A mesmerizing scene early in the film shows him jabbing a knife up and down in the air, stopping just centimeters from her tiny body, while his wife Mona snoozes in a bed nearby.

When the author of the horror classic Audition sees his work adapted by the filmmaker behind The Eyes of My Mother, you know you’re in for something weird. Opening this week, Piercing is more than weird. It’s an often bizarre mix of comedy, horror, and suspense. It doesn’t fully work, but the ambition level is off the charts, especially for a movie that barely clocks in at 80 minutes long. Films like these sometimes end up finding a cult audience. The masses won’t ever see this one, but a select few might make an effort to see just how insane things can get. The movie is, as mentioned, a hybrid between genres. Horror/suspense/thriller, with comedic aspects, which will sound pretty strange, considering the plot. We meet husband and new father Reed (Christopher Abbott) as he holds a sharp object over his baby’s body. In his mind,...