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NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.

IFC Center

Hideaki Anno’s Love & Pop plays in a new restoration; Herzog’s Nosferatu, Mulholland Dr., Funeral Parade of Roses, The Thing, and Irreversible show late.

Roxy Cinema

Saturday brings Bruce Labruce introducing Ciao! Manhattan and Melody of Love on 16mm; Claude Chabrol’s Ten Days Wonder shows on 16mm this Sunday alongside the rare Iranian feature Dead End.

Japan Society

Masahiro Shinoda’s Pale Flower shows on 35mm this Friday.

Film at Lincoln Center

The newly restored Compensation begins screening while a career-spanning Frederick Wiseman retrospective continues.

Film Forum

Tales from the New Yorker includes films by Nicholas Ray, Orson Welles, and John Huston. Godard’s A Woman Is a Woman continues in a new 4K restoration; Meet Me In St. Louis screens on Sunday.

Anthology Film Archives

Willem Dafoe: Wild at Heart continues.

Museum of the...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.

Roxy Cinema

Vincent Gallo writes, directs, and / or stars in Buffalo ’66, Trouble Every Day, and The Brown Bunny, all playing on 35mm; a print of Twilight screens Sunday.

Museum of Modern Art

Dutchman and We Are Universal play in a two-for-one screening.

Japan Society

A six-film Nobuhiko Obayashi retrospective has two final showings on Friday.

Anthology Film Archives

Willem Dafoe: Wild at Heart features films by Schrader, Lynch, Scorsese, and Kathryn Bigelow.

Film at Lincoln Center

A career-spanning Frederick Wiseman retrospective continues.

Museum of the Moving Image

Snubbed Forever continues.

IFC Center

A new 4K restoration of Picnic at Hanging Rock continues; Fire Walk with Me, Lost Highway, and Mulholland Dr. screen; Fargo, The Thing, Irreversible, and House show late.

Film Forum

Godard’s A Woman Is a Woman begins playing in a new 4K restoration; The Little Mermaid screens on Sunday.

What Did Love (2015) Director Gaspar Noe Say About Using Intimate Scenes In His Movies? (Photo Credit – Instagram)

Gaspar Noe, the director behind Love (2015), stirred the pot with his bold stance on onscreen intimacy. Known for including real s*x in his films, Noe insisted that his explicit content isn’t just for shock value; it’s a way of portraying love and desire authentically, not like the artificial world of p****graphy.

In an interview with the Irish Examiner, Noe explained why the real scenes in his films are different from adult movies: “In what you call ‘adult movies’ there are no feelings at all. You never see people kissing or talking about pregnancy. You never see any girl having her periods and you never see a girl with regular pubic hair. It’s like a separate world that has nothing to do with normal life.” His point? Unlike adult films,...

After acquiring horror master David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds after the film’s North American premiere at TIFF, Sideshow and Janus Films has set a Spring release date, Deadline reports today.

The Shrouds will open on April 18 in New York and Los Angeles, before expanding nationwide on April 25, 2025.

Vincent Cassel (Irreversible, Eastern Promises) stars alongside Diane Kruger (Inglourious Basterds), Guy Pearce (Memento) and Sandrine Holt (“Fear the Walking Dead”).

In the film, “Karsh (Cassel) is a prominent businessman. Inconsolable since the death of his wife, he invents GraveTech, a revolutionary and controversial technology that enables the living to monitor their dear departed in their shrouds. One night, multiple graves, including that of Karsh’s wife, are desecrated. Karsh sets out to track down the perpetrators.”

As Joe Lipsett wrote in his review, we can expect The Shrouds to be among Cronenberg’s more personal works. Lipsett writes, “Cronenberg is on...

Irréversible, the unmatched horror thriller that shocked audiences to their core in 2002, will stream soon on Shudder. Not only that, the controversial piece by Gaspar Noé will arrive on the horror streamer with a little-seen cut that played in select theaters in 2020.

Starting January 1, Irréversible will find its way onto the streaming platform Shudder, promising to ruin the beginning of the new year for those who see it for the first time. Those viewers who have already watched the film will have to find the courage to, again, go through the jarring experience that is Irréversible to view the new, "friendlier" cut.

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These instances often become the hushed topics of conversation after the movie is over, that made some audience members consider leaving the theater.

Irréversible follows Marcus and Pierre, two friends who find themselves seeking revenge for a brutal attack on Alex,...

Monica Bellucci is an icon in more ways than one. Turning from a model into an actress is not a small feat. However, she managed to do it and took it a step further, even being taken seriously in the field. She has had a great influence on the portrayal of women on screen, having starred in masterpieces like Malèna and Irréversible, which are at times so realistic that it is uncomfortable.

Monica Bellucci in The Passion of The Christ | Credit: Newmarket Films

It would seem that the actress also frequently practices what she preaches, constantly being a role model to more than just her fans. In fact, Game of Thrones actress Lena Headey once confessed that Bellucci had a huge influence on how she approached her professional life and the people she interacted with.

Lena Headey Was Tormented by a Co-star

Lena Headey once gave an interview with Carla Gugino for Interview Magazine,...

Ben Stiller has returned to making movies, but the star's latest has earned him divisive results. The actor has been an active force in Hollywood for decades, making his movie debut in Hot Pursuit (1987). Stiller is best known for his performances in Madagascar (2005) as Alex, Night at the Museum (2006) as Larry, and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013) as the titular lead. Throughout his career, he has won a BAFTA Award, a Directors Guild of America award, and an Emmy.

Unfortunately, Stiller has not taken a major role since 2017, as he elected to focus on small projects. The smaller roles allowed him to increase his productivity as a director and producer. His last major casting was in 2021's Locked Down, but even that was a smaller part than he is typically known for. Stiller's focus on less prominent parts made his return a surprise. Unfortunately, his newest role in Hollywood...

Whenever a director earns a cult following, fans of their work usually can't wait to see what they come up with next. Gaspar No claimed his spot among the biggest filmmakers in the world by helming shocking and controversial titles such as Irreversible and Climax. Away from feature-film directing since 2021, the filmmaker spoke to Variety and revealed that one of his next projects might be one of his most shocking yet: a kids' movie.

Gaspar Noé, the director of controversial “Irréversible” and “Vortex,” wants to venture into uncharted career territory: Making a children’s film.

While Noé is known for rape-revenge stories and psychedelic sagas such as “Enter the Void” and “Climax,” the filmmaker told Variety that he is looking to make something a little more unexpected next.

“The main film genres that really would interest me for a future project are documentary, war film, and horror. Probably I should even try to mix those three genres,” Noé said. “I also would like to do a movie with young children, or a movie for children.”

He added of his career, “Luckily, I have no regrets about my past movies. But I had some projects in mind years ago that excite me less nowadays. It’s better to start a film production while the subject excites you. Some movie ideas can stop interesting you as...

Following a two-hour masterclass at the Cairo Film Festival, Gaspar Noé spoke with Variety about future genres he’d like to tackle: “The main film genres that really would interest me for a future project are documentary, war film, and horror. Probably I should even try to mix those three genres. I also would like to do a movie with young children, or a movie for children.”

The Argentinian director of “Irreversible” (2002) and “Vortex” (2021) had earlier answered questions from British-Iranian critic Mo Abdi, telling the audience of his sold out event: “Kids are like small adults. When we are kids we are in danger. You are exposed to everything. I’m very attached to kids in life, though I don’t have kids. The relationship you have with kids is direct and playful. I would like to do a movie with little kids. They relate to fragility, they relate to...

Monica Bellucci has been an icon for decades now. However, the past few years have seen a surge in her popularity as her films from decades ago become more and more relevant to recent times. The actress has been praised for perfectly encapsulating the female experience in films like Malèna and Irréversible.

Monica Bellucci in The Passion of The Christ | Credit: 20th Century Fox

Looking at her filmography, one can easily see that she has played many extreme roles. During an interview, the actress talked about why she took such an approach in her career, chalking it up to her past as a model and not being taken seriously because of her looks.

Monica Bellucci—A Product of Pretty Privilege

There is a common trend in society to dismiss the intellect of attractive people. Just because they look a certain way, they are not allowed to be more than their physical characteristics.

Films can be entertaining, but sometimes they can be a bit too much, especially when it comes to drama. Irréversible is a French movie from 2002, and it tells a story so intense that even the lead actress still feels uncomfortable talking about one particular scene.

Still from Irréversible (Credits: Studiocanal)

On top of that, a piece of her costume, which she had kept as a souvenir, ended up having the opposite effect of what she expected. For a long time, Monica Bellucci couldn’t even go near her character’s dress from the film, because wearing it brought back traumatic memories.

Monica Bellucci Could No Longer Touch The Costume From The Movie Irréversible Monica Bellucci in Irréversible (Credits: Studiocanal)

Told in reverse chronological order, Irréversible follows the story of a woman who is violently raped and, alongside her fiancé and ex-boyfriend, embarks on a quest for revenge. Directed by Gaspar Noé,...

Doing a scene in one take or making it look like a scene has been done in one uncut take is more difficult than it looks or sounds. So, you can only imagine what it must take to do an entire film that is either done in one shot or made to look like it is. Some of the most popular examples that come to mind are Gaspar Noe’s Irreversible, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s Birdman, Sam Mendes’ 1917, and James Nunn’s action extravaganzas, One Shot and One More Shot. Now, many have criticized that, given how the “invisible cuts” in these movies are pretty visible, the whole one shot gimmick feels like a distraction rather than an efficient way to give viewers an immersive experience. Well, that’s where films like Victoria, One Cut of the Dead, and Boiling Point come into play, as they have achieved the aforementioned...

Despite being slapped with a rare under-18s ban in France, Damien Leone’s horror film Terrifier 3 has not scared moviegoers away, selling 244,000 tickets (€1.75m based on an average ticket price of €7.20) during its opening weekend.

The figures, based on ticket sales from October 9-October 13, have already far surpassed Terrifier 2’s total of 71,000 tickets over its five-week run in cinemas in late 2023.

The film, about homicidal Art the Clown who goes on the rampage during the Christmas holidays, sparked a backlash from distributors Factoris Films, Shadowz Films and Esc Editions last week when France’s film classification committee...

Undoubtedly, the most famous role of David Schwimmer's came in Friends as Ross Geller, yet many often wonder what happened to him after the show ended. As one of the most influential sitcoms in TV history, Friends' 10 highly-ranked seasons catapulted the six main actors into stardom. Some of these actors, notably Jennifer Aniston and Courteney Cox, have gone on to have big movie careers beyond Friends' run while others have persisted with smaller roles. Regardless, no one can deny that all six actors are remembered for their defining moments in Friends, which ran between 1994 and 2004.

One such actor is David Schwimmer, who is most known for his role as Ross Geller. The actor was so integral to the sitcom that Schwimmer even directed several Friends episodes, though it is safe to say that many do not know much of what the actor did after the show ended its run.

“Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” is bringing some beloved characters back to fans, but the sequel is also introducing a few fresh faces — relatively speaking, considering they might be dead.

Once again directed by Tim Burton, the sequel takes place 30 years after the original, bringing the Deetz family back together for Charles’ death. At this point, Lydia (Winona Ryder) is fully grown with a daughter of her own, who discovers the mysterious remnants of Beetlejuice left in the attic.

We won’t spoil anything here, but we will give you a rundown of who’s who in the “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” cast and the characters they’re playing, old and new.

Beetlejuice (Michael Keaton) Warner Bros.

The juice is loose yet again, and he’s played by Michael Keaton once more. Keaton is, of course, perhaps best known as Beetlejuice and Batman, but you’ll also from “Spider-Man: Homecoming,” “Spotlight” and “Birdman.”

Lydia Deetz...

Isn’t it true that every cloud has a silver lining? Taylor Sheridan, the maestro behind the cinematic tapestry we know as Yellowstone, earlier shot to fame through the keen edge of his pen with talented screenplays like Sicario & Hell or High Water. However, it was his Wind River that weaved a web of neo-Western crime mystery so enthralling that it ensnares us with its relevance and thought-provoking narrative.

Jeremy Renner in Wind River | The Weinstein Company

Sheridan’s adept incorporation of harrowing real-life crime input into this chilling tale lent it a gravity that cannot be ignored, serving as a grim reflection of society’s darker undertones. In Wind River, we are introduced to Cory Lambert (portrayed by Jeremy Renner), a diligent game hunter, whose discovery of a young woman’s body in the desolate, frostbitten wilderness catapults us into a heart-wrenching saga of brutality.

The scene, which fans...

Trigger Warning: Mentions of s*xual assault and r*pe.

Monica Bellucci’s Irréversible has collectively been regarded as one of the most traumatizing and explicit films of all time. Being advertised as trauma translated into cinema, Gaspar Noé had a very clear vision when he was making the film. The raw reality that it hits its audience with can often be too much. However, the film is more than just its profanity, providing a window into the lives of some deeply complex characters.

Monica Bellucci’s Irréversible I Lionsgate

While the story is masterful in every way, there is no denying that when the 2002 film gets dark, it commits to it a little too much. There is one specific scene that has been regarded as seriously horrid, and for good reason.

Monica Bellucci’s Irréversible Had A Very Brutal Scene

Irréversible’s plot, on its own, is quite grim,...

The revamped Edinburgh Film Festival will screen 37 new feature films, 18 of which will be world premieres during its 2024 edition, running August 15 – 21.

The full Edinburgh lineup was revealed this afternoon in the Scottish capital by the festival’s new director Paul Ridd, former head of acquisitions at Picturehouse. The festival’s international feature competition, now dubbed the Sean Connery Prize for Feature Filmmaking Excellence, will screen 10 films, all world premieres.

The competition titles include All The Mountains Give by Arash Rakhsha, Jack King’s powerful Yorkshire-set drama The Ceremony, and Mary Jiménez and Bénédicte Liénard’s Fuga. Scroll down for the full list.

The festival will screen 18 titles out of competition. The screenings will include the world premiere of Euros Lyn’s The Radleys starring Damian Lewis and Kelly Macdonald and Alice Lowe’s latest Timestalker. Popular titles from across the festival circuit like Camera D’Or Winner Armand featuring Renate Reinsve...

Legendary filmmaker David Cronenberg's Crimes of the Future released in 2022, eight years after Maps to The Stars. Thankfully, we're not going to have to wait nearly as long for the body horror maestro's next film, which is set to premiere during this year's Cannes Film Festival next week.

Titled The Shrouds, the movie stars Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger (Inglourious Basterds), Guy Pearce (Memento) and Sandrine Holt (Fear the Walking Dead).

The first teaser trailer is now online.

The footage doesn't give us very much to go on, basically just serving as an introduction to Vincent Cassel's Karsh, "an innovative businessman and grieving widower, builds a novel device to connect with the dead inside a burial shroud. This burial tool installed at his own state-of-the-art – though controversial cemetery allows him and his clients to watch their specific departed loved one decompose in real time."

“Most burial rituals are about avoiding...

Legendary The Fly and Dead Ringers director David Cronenberg's Crimes of the Future released in 2022, eight years after his previous film, Maps to the Stars. Thankfully, we're not going to have to wait quite as long for the body horror maestro's next project.

Titled The Shrouds, the movie stars Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger (Inglourious Basterds), Guy Pearce (Memento) and Sandrine Holt (Fear the Walking Dead), and is set for its world premiere later this month at the Cannes Film Festival.

Plot details had been pretty vague up until now, but the following synopsis gives us a much better idea of what to expect.

"Karsh, an innovative businessman and grieving widower, builds a novel device to connect with the dead inside a burial shroud. This burial tool installed at his own state-of-the-art – though controversial cemetery allows him and his clients to watch their specific departed loved one decompose in real time.

Stars: Samuel L. Jackson, Gianni Capaldi, Laura Haddock, Brian McCardie, Vincent Cassel | Written by Paul Aniello, Koji Steven Sakai, Gianni Capaldi | Directed by Terry McDonough

Five years ago, a serial killer terrorized Chicago. Detective Dan Lawson was assigned to the case but couldn’t bring the killer to justice. It left him a badly damaged man, drinking on the job and obsessed with revenge. Doubly so because one of the victims was his own girlfriend whom he discovered, her head and limbs in the shape of a cross, her torso missing.

In Edinburgh, Detective Glen Boyd finds himself investigating a murder that looks to be the work of the same person. He reaches out to the Chicago Pd, who are only too happy to put Lawson on the next flight to Scotland. Fortunately, there weren’t any motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane.

Things, of course, don’t go well.

Boutique world sales outfit The Yellow Affair has boarded the Portuguese crime thriller “Irreversible,” produced by prestige outfit Caracol Studios for pubcaster Rtp.

The upcoming six-part TV show was showcased among 10 exclusive titles at this week’s MipDrama at MipTV in Cannes.

Created and helmed by the multi-awarded Bruno Gascon, the thought-provoking series tackles pressing issues such as mental health, illegal adoptions, bullying, homophobia and motherhood. In the title roles are Margarida Vila-Nova, Rafael Morais, and Laura Dutra.

We follow the tormented psychologist Júlia Mendes and inspector Pedro Sousa as they team up to solve a brutal homicide involving a young girl in a coastal town. As they unravel the crime, they battle their own personal demons and strive to keep their lives intact.

In a town where everyone hides something and is willing to do anything to protect their loved ones, the quest for truth may be a costly exercise for Júlia.

The votes are in: Atmospheric (and claustrophobic) Finnish mystery thriller “Icebreaker,” already one of the most buzzed of projects hitting the competition, has been crowned the winner of the 8th edition of MipDrama, receiving its Coup de Coeur award.

Sold by About Premium Content, created by Mia Ylönen, who exec produces with Aleksi Bardy, the Elisa Viihde-commissioned show “Icebreaker” is set on a stranded boat.

As its crew members start to disappear, one by one, coastguard Sanna Tanner (Jessica Grabowsky) is trying to find answers – but what she is dealing with goes way beyond rational explanations.

“We wanted to build up slowly, like a classic whodunnit, but you get a sense there is something else going on. Something is lurking on this ship, but we don’t know whether it’s human or not,” creator Mia Ylönen previously told Variety. The show is produced by Helsinki-filmi, an independent subsidiary of Aurora Studios.

As most connoisseurs of cinema already know, the end credit roll is a relatively recent addition to the medium. The reasons for this are too lengthy to go into here, but suffice to say that films used to end very definitively and, at least for those of us raised in a world where end credits were already a thing, quite abruptly, sending audiences out of the theater with a brusqueness not unlike a train disembarking.

Ever since end credit rolls became commonplace, filmmakers have experimented with finding ways of extending the cinematic experience throughout their duration rather than treating them the way so many moviegoers tend to: as mere legally-mandated appendages to a movie. While even the most basic film includes music during the end credits so as to help keep the roll a part of the movie, some go above and beyond that, including deleted material, bloopers, or entire...

Take a look at new images of actress Monica Bellucci in the March 2024 issue of “Vogue” (Czechoslovakia) magazine, photographed by Paolo Roversi:

Bellucci's film career began in the early 1990's, playing roles in "La Riffa" (1991) and "Bram Stoker's Dracula" (1992).

In 1996 she was nominated for a 'César Award' for best supporting actress for her portrayal of 'Lisa' in "L'Appartement".

This was followed by roles in "Malèna" (2000), "Brotherhood of the Wolf" and "Irréversible" (2002).

She has since played in numerous films including "Tears of the Sun" (2003), "The Matrix Reloaded" (2003), "The Brothers Grimm" (2005), "Le Deuxième souffle" (2007), "Don't Look Back" (2009), and "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" (2010).

Bellucci dubbed her own voice for the French and Italian releases of the film "Shoot 'Em Up" (2007), also voicing 'Kaileena' in the video game "Prince of Persia: Warrior Within" and the French voice of 'Cappy' for the international version of the 2005 animated feature "Robots".

Click the images to enlarge…...

Meshell Ndegeocello is spearheading the next installment in the ongoing Sun Ra tribute series, Red Hot + Ra, with the LP Red Hot & Ra: The Magic City, out April 12.

The LP isn’t a traditional “tribute” album filled with covers. Rather, Ndegeocello and her numerous collaborators honored Sun Ra with totally new compositions that used the intergalactic jazz giant’s ideas, words, and melodies.

The first offering from the album, “#9 Venus the Living Myth,” incorporates elements from Sun Ra’s “Rocket Number 9” and “The Living Myth” and features a saxophone duet...

“You don’t have to be so strong,” chants the singer Romy over a trance beat, leading viewers of How to Have Sex out of the film and into the closing credits. The irony is that after viewing Molly Manning Walker’s tale of adolescent exploration, it’s hard to come to any other conclusion than today’s youth must indeed steel themselves for an unforgiving landscape of choices and consequences. As teenaged Tara (Mia McKenna Bruce) learns on the big fat Greek quest to lose her virginity, childhood friendships and romantic relationships alike come under serious strain when the specter of sexuality enters the equation.

In How to Have Sex, Walker filters the bacchanalia of films like Spring Breakers through a lens of social realism reminiscent of Andrea Arnold’s work. Her background as a cinematographer, most notably for Charlotte Regan’s Scrapper, emerges most clearly in how she...

In the realm of Giallo films, Dario Argento is a celebrated figure. He’s one of the most influential directors of the Italian film industry, but his films have enchanted audiences worldwide and made a lot of cinephiles fall in love with the Italian Giallo films, such as Suspiria (1977), Deep Red (1975), Inferno (1980), and many more. Directed by Simone Scafidi, the Shudder documentary Dario Argento: Panico sheds light on this legendary filmmaker’s life and his extraordinary filmmaking style. Some of those closest to him like his sister, daughter, and ex-wife, as well as some globally acclaimed directors who had always looked up to his work, appeared in this film to share how Dario became an inspiration for the next generation.

The film opened with Dario Argento being interviewed and filmed in a hotel room, where he was supposed to write the screenplay for his next film. Initially a little bit hesitant to talk,...

You don’t need to have lived in the proverbial middle of nowhere to understand the kind of terror Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury’s The Soul Eater mines from the fictional Roquenoix. As shot by Simon Roca, this remote hamlet in northeastern France isn’t a ghost town so much as a burial ground where humans and buildings alike are waiting to rot. A grandiose sanatorium once towered over the tree-shrouded hills, bringing in enough cash and tourists to fill the village’s coffers. But when a motorway was built across the valley, the tourists disappeared, the sanatorium was abandoned; and the few who stayed behind were left to wrestle with an ancestral legend and a series of murders that may or may not be connected with it.

The single most terrifying thing in The Soul Eater isn’t the titular devourer, but that spectral, lifeless town where its victims are stranded.

There was a time, in the ’90s, when indie film noir thought it was being hip by imitating the trappings of ’40s thrillers ­— the dark shadows, Venetian blinds, and “slinky” femme fatales. But a true noir never really looks back; it’s always pushing forward, toward fresh new varieties of desire and dread. “Love Lies Bleeding” is like that. It’s the second feature directed by Rose Glass, the British director of “Saint Maud” (2019), and though it’s made with a powerful sense of style, there’s nothing retro or mannered about it. It’s set in a small desert town in rural grunge New Mexico in 1989, and from the opening moments, which unfold at the warehouse workout gym where Lou (Kristen Stewart) toils away as a manager, the movie lets you taste the scuzzy deadbeat Western sleaze as surely as Mailer’s “The Executioner’s Song” did.

As Lou, Kristen...

We recently learned that five years after Dragged Across Concrete, S. Craig Zahler will soon announce his next feature. In the meantime, the director has unveiled his favorite music, books, and––most pertinent to this site––films he watched in the past year.

The 21-movie list includes not only his ten favorites of the year but revival screenings as well, including Béla Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky’s Werckmeister Harmonies, Kelly Reichardt’s Wendy and Lucy, Masaki Kobayashi’s Harakiri, Gaspar Noé’s Irreversible, Nagisa Ôshima’s The Pleasures of the Flesh, Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria, and William Friedkin’s The Exorcist.

When it comes to new releases, amongst the favorites of the Bone Tomahawk director were Sean Durkin’s The Iron Claw, Skinamarink, Godzilla Minus One, the Indian action-thriller Jawan, films by Martin Scorsese and Jonathan Glazer, and the latest in the Saw franchise.

Check out the list below.

Godzilla Minus One...

As Phoebe Cates’ character Kate Beringer in Gremlins famously monologued, the holidays tend to drudge up painful memories and sorrow for many. In the spirit of unhappy holidays, the 4th day of Creepmas is dedicated to Christmas horror movies that aren’t afraid to showcase the grimmer side of the holiday season.

Forget about holiday cheer; these holiday horror movies – in order from somber to soul-crushing (and skin-crawling)- will make you give thanks that you’re not in the protagonists’ shoes.

The 12 Days of Creepmas continues on Bloody Disgusting, this time with 4 grim Christmas horror movies that will leave you feeling hopeless for the unhappiest of holidays.

Keep track of the 12 Days of Creepmas here.

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This anthology features four segments of horror, but only the first is holiday-related. Jovanka Vuckovic’s “The Box,” based on Jack Ketchum’s short story of the same name, sees a family stricken...

Some of the most powerful figures in Saudi film gathered at the Ritz Carlton in Jeddah for a cocktail party hosted by Film AlUla and Stampede Ventures in partnership with Variety last night. Figures such as Saudi producer and film industry pioneer Faisal Baltyuor and Egyptian producer Mohamed Hefzy were spotted along with Zeinab Abu Alsamh, general manager of Mbc Studios Saudi Arabia.

Stampede Ventures head Greg Silverman was celebrating the $350 million three-year deal just signed with Film AlUla, which will bring 10 projects to the region. He told Variety: “As somebody who loves film, coming here and seeing films celebrated this way is excellent. We’ve been looking for a home for our slate of films and we’re so excited to have the possibility of working with AlUla. They have state-of-the-art studios and, for our talent, it’s an incredible place for them to be when they’re not on set.

“It’s such an honor to come back and play at the Sydney Opera House, one of the most spectacular houses of music in the world. I have had such wonderful experiences in Australia and with Australian audiences, and I can’t wait to continue that. Thumbs up for Mother Universe.”

Lonnie Holley

Sydney – Monday 13 November, 2023. The Sydney Opera House today announced that celebrated American visual artist and experimental musician Lonnie Holley will be joined by musician and activist Moor Mother and free jazz collective Irreversible Entanglements for a night of rapturous collaboration in the Utzon Room on February 26.

Sydney Opera House Head of Contemporary Music, Ben Marshall says: “Lonnie Holley is one of the most moving and transcendent live performers I have ever experienced, and I think everyone has to come and bear witness to his channellings from another world at least once in their lives. Sonically a radiant...

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning, and other recent high-profile blockbusters have nothing on Bollywood's new action film, Kill. It's more entertaining than the entire Barbenheimer thing, in our humble opinion. The Hindi-language martial arts thriller just premiered at Beyond Fest in Southern California, to an audience whose enthusiasm was perhaps on par with the crowd who joined me for Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight on opening day.

And rightfully so — Nikhil Nagesh Bhat’s new film Kill is a wild ride from start to finish. Watch it with your martial arts-obsessed pals, as an added bonus. You'll shriek, wince, laugh, cry, and more — all the ingredients of a successful big-screen effort.

A Bit of Everything for Everyone

Kill is "wild" as mentioned, but not from start to finish. It starts as a sort of Bollywood rom-com about the star-crossed lovers Tulika (Tanya Maniktala...

Blue Finch Film Releasing will release Calvaire on Digital Platforms from 19th September 2023. Synopsis: Marc Stevens is a travelling singer in rural Belgium. At the nursing home where he is performing, the concert has ended, and Marc takes to the road. Shortly afterwards his car breaks down in the middle of nowhere. He is taken in by Bartel, an innkeeper who became psychologically fragile after his wife Gloria left him. This is how Marc’s ordeal begins… Re-released on UK Digital Platforms from 19th September 2023, director Fabrice Du Welz’s unrelenting modern horror classic Calvaire, considered a key part of the New French Extremity movement of bold and challenging horror cinema, was shot by cinematographer Benoît Debie (Gaspar Noé’s Irréversible) and stars Laurent Lucas (Raw), Philippe Nahon and Jackie Berroyer.

The post Extreme modern horror classic Calvaire – on Digital Platforms from 19th September 2023 appeared first on Horror Asylum.

Brazil’s Raccord Produções, Chile’s Araucaria Cine and France’s Nord-Ouest Films are teaming to produce acclaimed Brazilian filmmaker Gabe Klinger’s feature drama project “Okonomiyaki.”

“Okonomiyaki” will topline celebrated Brazilian actor-helmer Leandra Leal, Yuki Sugimoto, star of Disney+ series “Mila in the Multiverse,” and feature Marco Pigossi, of Netflix’s “Invisible City” and “Tidelands.”

The feature-length project has been selected for the San Sebastian Film Festival’s Europe-Latin America Co-production Forum, its industry centerpiece, which runs Sept. 25-27.

The film is produced by Clélia Bessa and Marcos Pieri at Raccord, Araucaria’s Isabel Orellana and Nord-Ouest Films’ Ola Byszuk, who are looking fo further financing and co-production, as well as sales and distribution partners for the project.

Offscreen talent includes longtime Pablo Larraín Dp Sergio Armstrong and editor Soledad Salfate, of Sebastián Lelio’s Oscar-winner “A Fantastic Woman.”

Principal photography on “Okonomiyaki” is scheduled to kick-off second quarter next year in Sao Paulo.

Inglourious Basterds and Gaspar Noé's Irréversible undermine the serious moral implications in favor of pure spectacle and exploitation. Festen and Dogtooth depict agonizing family dynamics, forcing viewers to sit through uncomfortable and thought-provoking experiences. Bicycle Thieves and Deliverance explore moral ambiguity and the psychological effects of poverty and desperation, leaving viewers questioning their own actions.

Movies should provoke something deep inside. Hopefully that isn’t nausea.

You can shrug off most horror movies, even a war movie, but a good drama lingers on. Unlike a slasher with geysers of comical blood, certain movies are not there for you to enjoy with a tub of popcorn and Jujubes.

On its own merits, Inglourious Basterds is a fun movie, but to see it as anything but an homage to other silly WWII adventure flicks is a grave mistake. Quentin Tarantino knows the difference between a serious movie and pure spectacle. His...

Almost two years ago, rapper Travis Scott and the entertainment company A24 revealed they were working together on a mysterious project – and they made this revelation by sharing a picture of a script that had blood and coffee stains on it, with the title obscured. Now we know that Scott has actually worked with A24 on two separate feature films that we’re going to be seeing very soon. One of those projects is called Circus Maximus, which Scott directed alongside the likes of Harmony Korine (Kids), Gaspar Noé (Irreversible), Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive), Valdimar Jóhannsson (Lamb), and music video director Kahlil Joseph. You can watch the trailer for it in the embed above.

Circus Maximus is a companion piece to Scott’s new album Utopia, which will be released this Friday, July 28th. The 75 minute film will reach theatres on July 27th.

Here’s the synopsis: Prepare to enter...

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice is highly divisive, with a great titular showdown but a portrayal of iconic villains that falls short. Star Wars: The Last Jedi took bold risks that some viewers loved, while others felt it fundamentally misunderstood the franchise. The Tree of Life is a visually stunning film that captivates some viewers with its spiritual moments, but others find it tedious and lacking in plot.

The most polarizing movies that people either love or hate belong in a distinct category in the history of cinema. When it comes to disturbing films like Irreversible or Darren Aronofsky's Mother!, it's easy to see why some movies are practically destined to be polarizing. At the same time, from blockbusters like Forrest Gump and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, to cult comedies like Hot Rod and the algorithm-breaking Napoleon Dynamite, there's really no pattern that determines how a...

Gaspar Noé, the French director known for his provocative and experimental films, has announced his next project. The film, which is still untitled, will star Cate Blanchett and Franz Rogowski as the lead actors. The film is currently in pre-production and Noé is scouting locations in Putignano, Italy.

Noé is one of the most acclaimed and controversial filmmakers of his generation. His films, such as “Irreversible”, “Enter the Void” and “Climax”, have explored themes of violence, sexuality, death and transcendence with a distinctive visual style and narrative structure. His latest film, “Vortex”, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2021, was a departure from his previous works. It focused on an elderly couple facing their mortality in a realistic and intimate way.

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Blanchett and Rogowski are both versatile and talented actors who have worked with some of the best directors in the world. Blanchett is a...

Jamie Foxx in God Is A Bullet Photo: WayWard Entertainment From the director of The Notebook, a sensitive, female-skewing all-timer of a love story, comes God Is A Bullet, in which every woman onscreen gets repeatedly punched, kicked, sometimes raped, or murdered by a shotgun blast. They’re not the...

Jamie Foxx in God Is A BulletPhoto: WayWard Entertainment

From the director of The Notebook, a sensitive, female-skewing all-timer of a love story, comes God Is A Bullet, in which every woman onscreen gets repeatedly punched, kicked, sometimes raped, or murdered by a shotgun blast. They’re not the only...

Up next from David Cronenberg is The Shrouds, and star Vincent Cassel lets us know this week via his official Instagram that filming has now wrapped on the genre picture.

“Thank you David Cronenberg for your trust and indissoluble elegance,” Cassel writes on Instagram. He also notes, “Can’t wait for the world to see what we just did.”

Check out Cassel’s post below and expect more updates soon.

Cassel stars alongside Diane Kruger (Inglourious Basterds), Guy Pearce (Memento) and Sandrine Holt (“Fear the Walking Dead”).

Deadline details, “Cassel will play Karsh, an innovative businessman and grieving widower, who builds a novel device to connect with the dead inside a burial shroud. This burial tool installed at his own state-of-the-art – though controversial cemetery allows him and his clients to watch their specific departed loved one decompose in real time.

“Karsh’s revolutionary business is on the verge of breaking...

Michelle Yeoh is looking back on watching everything in competition at Cannes all at once while serving on the jury under then-president David Lynch in 2002.

Yeoh reflected on the particularly “emotional” year of films, ranging from Gaspar Noé’s jarringly violent sexual thriller “Irréversible” to Michael Moore’s school shooting documentary “Bowling for Columbine” and films like Olivier Assayas’ sex-trafficking mystery “Demonlover” and the Dardennes’ drama “The Son.” The Palme d’Or was eventually awarded to “The Pianist,” the harrowing Holocaust drama starring Adrien Brody and directed by Roman Polanski — who both went on to win Oscars.

Yeoh, who was fresh off of her iconic “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” role, served as part of the 2002 Cannes jury at a time when she admitted she may have been “too young” to refrain from getting “too emotional” watching the heavier films back-to-back.

“It is very intense, because you’re watching two or three movies a day,...

The now confirmed Beetlejuice sequel, which at present is known simply as Beetlejuice 2, continues to round out its supporting cast, adding Malèna and The Matrix Reloaded star Monica Bellucci as the wife of the titular ghoul. As per a report by The Hollywood Reporter, the Mafia Mamma star will join the likes of Michael Keaton and Jenna Ortega in the long, long-awaited follow-up, which is now in production over at Warner Bros. Pictures.

Monica Bellucci is well-known both in the United States and internationally for roles in such critically acclaimed Italian and French movies like Malèna, Brotherhood of the Wolf, and Irréversible as well as roles in such major blockbusters as The Matrix Reloaded and its sequel The Matrix Revolutions, the James Bond outing Spectre, and the action flick Shoot 'Em Up. No doubt she will make a very welcome addition to the world of Beetlejuice, with her role...

Think you’ve seen it all? I hope you’ve got a strong stomach, because there are plenty of disturbing, vile, and downright terrifying films lurking in the shadows, ready to push you to your limit. I sought out 10 movies so disturbing, that even Redditors couldn’t finish them. And that’s saying something. Get ready to be scared out of your wits!

1. Terrifier (2016)

Clowns are supposed to be funny, right? Well, not this one. Terrifier follows the deranged Art the Clown, who terrorizes a group of friends on Halloween night. The film features graphic violence and gore, including one scene that involves Art hacking off a woman’s face. Yep, you read that right. It’s no wonder that this brave viewer on Reddit couldn’t make it through this movie.

2. Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007)

Found footage films can be creepy, but Poughkeepsie Tapes takes it to a whole new level.

Mafia Mamma is a film directed by Catherine Hardwicke starring the “almost” always great Toni Collette and Monica Bellucci, and this time, as great and wonderful as they are, they don’t manage to save a comedy with jokes that don’t end up being funny.

Bad start for a comedy, don’t you think?

Mafia Mamma Movie Review

Mafia Mamma is a parody crime thriller that without wanting to go anywhere and aware of this circumstance, limits itself to overflow with clichés (it was obvious), to drop more or less funny jokes and that relies on the two stars’ performances (especially Toni Collette’s) to save the movie from sinking.

And no matter how great he or she could be, no actor can save a bad script nor, dare we say, a bad editing at the level of rhythm. Thus, Mafia Mamma is sometimes placed in almost separate scenes without a common nexus that,...

Up next from David Cronenberg is The Shrouds, with filming set to kick off in May. Deadline reports today that Sandrine Holt (“Fear the Walking Dead”) has joined the cast.

As we recently learned, Vincent Cassel (Irreversible, Cronenberg’s Eastern Promises) is on board to star alongside Diane Kruger (Inglourious Basterds) and Guy Pearce (Memento).

Deadline details, “Cassel will play Karsh, an innovative businessman and grieving widower, who builds a novel device to connect with the dead inside a burial shroud. This burial tool installed at his own state-of-the-art – though controversial cemetery allows him and his clients to watch their specific departed loved one decompose in real time.

“Karsh’s revolutionary business is on the verge of breaking into the international mainstream when several graves within his cemetery are vandalized and nearly destroyed, including that of his wife. While he struggles to uncover a clear motive for the attack, the...