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Get ready to be gripped by fear as Never Let Go, the latest psychological thriller from visionary director Alexandre Aja, hits US cinemas on September 27, 2024. This new horror offering promises to be a haunting journey, blending survival horror with intense psychological elements that will leave audiences on the edge of their seats.

Never Let Go is helmed by Alexandre Aja, renowned for his work on Haute Tension, The Hills Have Eyes (2006) and Crawl, and crafted by the creative minds behind Stranger Things and Arrival. The film is written by Kc Coughlin and Ryan Grassby, with an impressive production team including Shawn Levy, Dan Cohen, Dan Levine, and Alexandre Aja himself. The film also boasts an impressive list of executive producers, including Academy Award winner Halle Berry, who also stars in the movie, along with Holly Jeter, Daniel Clarke, Emily Morris, Christopher Woodrow, and Connor Digregorio.

The film centres on a mother,...

After taking a look back at House II: The Second Story (a favorite of mine since childhood), House of 1000 Corpses (which celebrated its 20th anniversary last year), the awesomeness of Tales from the Crypt Presents: Demon Knight, the leg smashing in the Stephen King adaptation Misery, three separate moments from John Carpenter’s Big Trouble in Little China, the “Jason vs. Tina” battle in Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood, the “all hell breaks loose” sequence from the start of Zack Snyder’s Dawn of the Dead remake, the opening sequence of Pitch Black, and the “Burn” scene from The Crow, JoBlo’s own Lance Vlcek is continuing his The Best Scene video series with a look at a moment from genre regular Alexandre Aja‘s breakthrough film High Tension (watch it Here). To find out which scene Lance chose as the best, check out the video embedded above!

Some plot twists are so woeful that they manage to undo all the goodwill that an otherwise solid movie has earned from its audience, as seen in these seven terrible twists. Plot twists are tricky. For every jaw-dropping revelation that leaves viewers staring at the screen in stunned shock a la the endings of Fight Club and The Sixth Sense, there are dozens of movies whose twists are a little too telegraphed, whose big revelations are a touch too predictable, or whose ambitious last-minute reversal doesn’t really add up on a re-watch. That said, this is not the worst type of plot twist.

Even though not every M Night Shyamalan-style plot twist can be an instant classic, most twists at least belong in their movies of origin. Horror movie twists might be clumsy and a little too obvious, but they are still generally revelations that belong in the horror genre.