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As summer winds down, Hulu is refreshing its lineup, which means some films are exiting the platform this August. It’s a mix of genres, from horror to romance to animated adventures, so there’s something for everyone to catch before it’s gone.

We’ve got the full list of movies departing throughout the month, organized by their exit dates. Each film gets a quick spotlight to help you decide what to watch before it leaves. Let’s dive into what’s on the way out.

Skinamarink (2023) Ero Picture Company

This experimental horror film follows two kids who wake up to find their parents gone and their house acting strangely. Shot with a grainy, lo-fi aesthetic, it leans on atmosphere over plot, creating an eerie vibe that’s divisive among viewers.

Some call it a slow-burn masterpiece, others find it too abstract. Its unique style makes it a must-watch...

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Hulu is one of the best places to find the best movies and TV shows you can watch on any streaming service. Every month, it adds hundreds of new titles to its content library. For instance, this month, we are getting the much-anticipated series set in the Alien universe and the streaming release of the horrific dark comedy film The Monkey, but with that, some titles have to leave the service for a number of reasons. So, today, we are here to tell you about the best film you should watch before it leaves Hulu in August 2025.

Skinamarink (August 1) Credit – Shudder

Skinamarink is a Canadian experimental horror film written and directed by Kyle Edward Ball. The 2022 film revolves around two young siblings who wake up one night and are unable to find their father, and soon discover that...

I love some feel-bad horror. The kind of movies that maybe a little too acutely reflect the present moment, extending my sociopolitical anxieties outward in extreme, terrifying ways. Parasite is my favorite Best Picture winner of the last few years for a reason, and for as nasty as it is, I thought The Platform was horrifying in its prescience. Even the soon-to-be-released The Rule of Jenny Pen’s geriatric terror cuts a little too close to the bone (and I loved it for that).

Those are certainly among the more extreme examples, though plenty of other socially charged horror movies have managed to strike a chord with me. Last year’s festival hit The Tenants was deeply depressing in its claustrophobic terror, and pretty much every major 2024 release—The First Omen, Alien: Romulus, and so many more than that—was pretty much a sobering reminder of where we’re at.

We never learn the name of Nicolas Cage’s character in The Surfer. (He is credited simply as ‘The Surfer’.) It might, then, be tempting to think that this film — which features yet another Cage character slowly descending into madness — is simply an example of the ‘Nicolas Cage Type’, of ‘Cage Rage’, of the kind of uniquely bizarre freakout that has for years provided ample fodder for meme-merchants and YouTube compilation editors.

But this is not quite the Cage of bees and bunnies in boxes. Instead it’s a surreal, somewhat psychedelic riff on Hitchcockian suspense from Irish director Lorcan Finnegan, who has specialised in such material, and in turn Cage seems to be channelling something closer to Jimmy Stewart in Vertigo, or Michael Douglas in Falling Down: an ordinary but obsessive man, pushed to his limits.

The crazy here is coming from outside of Cage as much as within,...

Nicolas Cage has been on a tear lately. From standout performances in “Pig,” “Dream Scenario,” “Longlegs,” and “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent” to now “The Surfer,” the Oscar-winner is once again redefining his career with bold, unpredictable choices. Directed by Lorcan Finnegan, “The Surfer” is a sun-bleached fever dream about masculinity, ego, and unraveling identity that veers from the poetic to the primal.

Continue reading ‘The Surfer’: Nicolas Cage & Lorcan Finnegan Dive Into Aussie Surrealism, Retirement, ‘Madden’ & ‘Spider-Man Noir’ [The Discourse Podcast] at The Playlist.

Fans of filmmaker Lorcan Finnegan's deeply unsettling psychological thrillers — such as Vivariumand Nocebo —can expect a similar experience in his latest release. With an increasingly manic Nicolas Cage at the helm, The Surfermay be one of Finnegan's most unhinged projects yet, and according to overwhelmingly positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, it's clear that audiences and critics alike are absolutely loving it.

An endurance game of dramatic tension, The Surfer features Cage as the eponymous Surfer, and Finn Little as his teenage son, who is simply dubbed The Kid. The Surfer drives his son to a parking lot overlooking the idyllic Luna Bay Beach, with the intention of revealing a big surprise once he and The Kid have surfed past the breaking waves. Problems almost immediately arise, however: The Kid doesn't care about his father's big surprise, while The Surfer's phone delivers bad news about an undisclosed deal that is falling through.

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 Cannes coverage. The Surfer opens in theaters on May 2.

In The Surfer, an exploitation film set to pressure-cook, a mild-mannered man is pitted against a group who even Andrew Tate might find a touch extreme. It’s set in South Australia on fictional Luna Bay, the kind of place where if the heat doesn’t get you, something else probably will. The water shines turquoise-blue but the beaches look like scorched earth. Into this furnace arrives an unnamed man (Nicolas Cage) hoping for nothing more than to view a cliffside property and catch a wave, but the locals have other ideas: “Don’t live here, don’t surf here,” one says, offering about as much hospitality as a switchblade.

The director of this entertaining potboiler is Lorcan Finnegan, an Irish filmmaker who seems acutely aware of the hand he’s...

Some movies end when the credits roll; others are never truly over and haunt the viewers back into the ordinary rhythms of everyday life. If there is one genre that is particularly adept at leaving a lasting impression, it is Horror. Whether it is the eerie atmosphere depicted, the visceral cruelty of the plot, or the disturbing themes explored, the best horror movies of all time often go beyond scaring the individual for a moment — they stay with them for a long time.

However, not every horror movie has the ability to do this. For a horror story to remain ingrained in the mind, it has to tap into something more profound, toying with the subconscious of the average viewer, unaware of the manipulative forces at play. Some unsettling psychological horror movies are a haunting example of this phenomenon. These movies do not simply scare; they evoke stronger emotions. Delving into areas of human interest,...

The Babadook tells the terrifying story of a young boy who becomes convinced that an evil spirit lives in his home, despite his mothers reassurance that hes safe. But when his behavior becomes erratic and uncontrollable, his mother realizes something isnt quite right. The Babadook is an unnerving horror film that delves deep into the human psyche and proves that, sometimes, we can be the scariest monsters of all. The Babadooks frightening ending has become notorious for its ambiguity and excellent use of horror imagery.

What works so effectively about The Babadook is that, while its clearly rooted in the horror genre, there arent any clear monsters or ghosts like youd expect in a basic haunted house story. Instead, the narrative is a largely metaphorical one about trauma, fear, and loss, focusing on the people affected by these themes. Its one of the scariest horror movies about grief thats ever been made,...

Lorcan Finnegan’s “The Surfer,” screening at Taormina Film Festival following its premiere at Cannes, promises to be one of the year’s cult films. A bizarro mix of Kafka and Ozploitation, the film boasts a late phase Cage performance and a psycho-comedy that appears all the darker for its sunbaked setting. The Irish director of “Vivarium” and “Nocebo” spoke with Variety as the Mediterranean glittered tantalizingly in the distance.

Were you familiar with surfing culture before making the film?

I wouldn’t call myself a surfer, as I’m more of a skateboarder, and so I didn’t really know much about that culture. And this whole toxic masculinity stuff never really appealed to me, but I didn’t want to reject something, just because I didn’t know about it. It’s an interesting challenge.

Why did you choose Australia as the setting?

It was going to be California,...

Special Agent 007 has become immensely popular since decades as it is one of the oldest spy franchises in film history. Throughout the years, numerous actors have portrayed the iconic character, but it was Daniel Craig who took the character’s popularity to a whole new level. The Knives Out actor played James Bond for 15 years and was the longest-serving actor in the role, arguably overtaking Sean Connery in terms of popularity and portrayal of the character.

Daniel Craig as James Bond in Casino Royale. Credits: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

While Daniel Craig took up the role in five movies, in Casino Royale, Eva Green stole the spotlight from him by becoming a key highlight in the film, and even being remembered as ‘The Hottest Bond Girl.’ Interestingly, Green did not want to be a part of the film, until Barbara Broccoli decided to persistently pursue her to be a part of it.

There’s no point in hiring Nicolas Cage if you’re not going to let him rip with a wackadoodle, Ott performance, and he duly delivers in the sly psychological thriller The Surfer. Calibrating his character’s descent into mental and physical disarray so that it happens by evenly distributed degrees, Cage is in only moderately demented form overall here. That suits director Lorcan Finnegan (Without Name, Vivarium) and screenwriter Thomas Martin’s ambitions to call back to and yet also spoof vintage Australian New Wave films like Nicolas Roeg’s Walkabout (1971), dreamtime stories about alienated outsiders.

Toxic masculinity, the Big Bad de nos jours, also seems to be on their mind although the performances and cinematic quirks (zooms, jump cuts, all that jazz) are so hammy and gestural there’s nothing subtle about the critique. But that’s what makes it fun.

Unfolding largely on a beach and its...

Bernardo Bertolucci’s Nc-17 masterpiece “The Dreamers” is receiving a 4K restoration re-release to celebrate its 20th anniversary. The film made history as the first Fox Searchlight Nc-17 theatrical release in 2004, with then-president Peter Rice comparing “The Dreamers” to Bertolucci’s other infamously controversial film, “Last Tango in Paris.”

Bertolucci said at the time that “The Dreamers” being released stateside in its original cut was a relief, adding, “After all, an orgasm is better than a bomb.”

“The Dreamers” premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2003 and had its U.S. debut at Sundance 2004. Future Bond cast member Eva Green made her credited big screen debut (after a bit part in “The Piano Teacher”) with the erotic psychological drama following a trio of cinephile students in 1968 Paris during the riots. Michael Pitt and Louis Garrel co-starred alongside Green.

The newly-restored version of the feature does not yet have a U.

Clockwise from top left: Cobweb (Lionsgate), Slotherhouse (Gravitas Pictures), Nocebo (Shudder), Dalíland (Magnolia Pictures) Image: The A.V. Club October is when streaming services like dropping obscure horror films and thrillers to get into the Halloween spirit. For instance, Eva Green is always scary-good, so her role as a fashion...

Clockwise from top left: Cobweb (Lionsgate), Slotherhouse (Gravitas Pictures), Nocebo (Shudder), Dalíland (Magnolia Pictures)Image: The A.V. Club

October is when streaming services like dropping obscure horror films and thrillers to get into the Halloween spirit. For instance, Eva Green is always scary-good, so her role as a fashion designer...

“It’s about creating monsters to start wars and steal natural resources.”

Lorcan Finnegan, whose sci-fi Vivarium premiered in Cannes Critics’ Week in 2019, is in town with wife and Lovely Productions partner Brunella Cocchiglia to meet financing partners and sales agents for his upcoming dystopian fable Goliath.

Set in the near-future, the subversion of the David and Goliath myth follows the inhabitants of a pig-breeding community next to a lake containing an island inhabited by a giant who according to legend ate the early settlers’ babies.

When the pigs fall ill, the head of the settlement orders a militia of youngsters to kill the monster.

Flawless, XYZ Films and Tea Shop Productions have acquired the Cannes Critics’ Week selection “Vincent Must Die” for all English-speaking territories from Goodfellas.

Flawless, the pioneering film technology company and a leader in the field of visual translation, recently announced it has launched a partnership with XYZ Films and Tea Shop Productions to acquire rights to foreign-language films, converting them to English for distribution in relevant markets.

Directed by Stéphan Castang, “Vincent Must Die” is written by Mathieu Naert, produced by Thierry Lounas and Claire Bonnefoy, and stars Karim Leklou and Vimala Pons. In the film, an ordinary man finds himself fighting for his life after he goes out one day and is mysteriously attacked by random strangers in the street with the intent to kill him.

This is the first film from the production company Wild West. Goodfellas and Capricci joined forces to create Wild West, a production company...

Mubi has acquired British filmmaker Molly Manning Walker’s debut feature How to Have Sex, which is set to debut in Un Certain Regard at the forthcoming Cannes Film Festival.

The streamer has taken all rights for North America, the UK, Ireland, Italy, Latin America, Turkey, and Benelux. Announcing the deal, Mubi said theatrical releases are planned for “key territories,” including the US and UK, while a theatrical release in the Benelux will be hosted in partnership with Imagine Film Distribution. Following theatrical releases, the film will debut on Mubi in all territories acquired.

Written and directed by Walker, the pic stars Mia McKenna-Bruce alongside Lara Peake, Shaun Thomas, Samuel Bottomley, and newcomers Enva Lewis and Laura Ambler. The film was shot by Nicolas Canniccioni.

Billed as an “exuberant, nuanced and painfully honest” tale...

Skulking foxes, future-telling CCTV, a psychiatric hospital and a pair of suspiciously pale vintners all feature in this assortment of treats and duds

This pick and mix of short horror films by different directors is a decidedly mixed bag, with a couple of flavoursome, sugar-rush-inducing treats – but many more stale, unchewable duds. The framing device, directed by Carlos Goitia, has DJ Candy on the night shift, taking calls from listeners recounting their own scary stories. In between these mini chapters, resourceful Candy copes with a creepy caller named Jack who harbours a grudge against her for an earlier slight. The ending twist comes with a dull thud.

Among the short films, the best is far and away Foxes, an eerie modern fairytale about a lonely photographer (Marie Ruane) living on a seemingly entirely empty housing estate full of ticky tacky identical houses in Ireland. She becomes obsessed with a skulk...

Exclusive: XYZ Films has claimed North American rights to the sci-fi pic The Artifice Girl, starring Tatum Matthews (The Waltons: Homecoming) and Lance Henriksen (Aliens), which this past weekend had its U.S. premiere at SXSW after world premiering to critical acclaim at Fantasia Film Festival.

The film marking the feature debut of writer-director Franklin Ritch — which like Uni’s horror hit M3GAN, looks at the increasingly top-of-mind subject of AI through a genre prism — is slated for a theatrical release in 15+ U.S. Markets, as well as an accompanying digital debut this spring.

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The Artifice Girl follows a small team of...

There’s a powerful social commentary running through U.K. horror flick Raging Grace that’s not always served by the film itself, which is neither scary nor all that convincing when it rummages through the toolbox of familiar genre tropes.

And yet, this debut feature from British-born Filipino writer-director Paris Zarcilla gets its message across despite all the jump-scares and haunted house hysteria. That message is simple but effective: In a world where immigrants toil at the behest of a privileged ruling class, to the point where they’re sometimes more indentured servants than free individuals, the horrors of everyday life far outweigh anything that a movie could invent.

Much of Raging Grace explores that ongoing system of exploitation, following a single Filipino mom, Joy (Max Eigenmann), who cleans swanky London houses to make a living and pay for an overpriced visa that will allow her to stay in England.

The Dutch comedy duo of Steffen Haars and Flip van der Kuil have a new project heading our way -- and it stars some pretty recognizable faces. Nick Frost has been tapped to lead the pair's first English-language feature, which is already gaining some pretty intense buzz. In a statement to Variety, Haars and van der Kuil said, "It's a dream come true working with this amazing, talented cast on our most insane movie yet." That's one hell of a claim considering these are the folks who made the cocktail of absurdity and vulgarity known as "Ron Goossens, Low Budget Stuntman."

Frost also spoke with Variety and said, "'Krazy House' has been a completely bonkers project to be a part of and I've absolutely loved every minute of it." This is also certainly quite a claim, as Nick Frost is somewhat synonymous with wild, wacky, and wonderful comedy films.

Plot: A fashion designer is suffering from a mysterious illness that puzzles her doctors and frustrates her husband, until help arrives in the form of a Filipino carer, who uses traditional folk healing to reveal a horrifying truth.

Review: I always enjoy it when a film’s title has more beneath the surface and Nocebo certainly does. The Nocebo Effect, similar to the placebo effect, is about the patient manifesting symptoms that either don’t exist or are exaggerations of the negative side effects. Knowing that, and seeing the illness that takes over Christine (Eva Green), sets up both an air of mystery but also speculation regarding the root of the problem. Because we’re shown early that a parasite has crawled its way into Christine, yet is this just her imagination or is something else really eating at her?

I’m not even sure all of these questions are answered in Nocebo.

Stars: Eva Green, Mark Strong, Billie Gadsdon, Chai Fonacier | Written by Garret Shanley | Directed by Lorcan Finnegan

Christine is a successful fashion designer. She lives with her marketing consultant husband Felix and their daughter Roberta in a huge house in the middle of Dublin. As Nocebo opens they’re out in front of that house with their expensive cars deciding who’s going to pick Roberta up from her private school. Life, as they say, has been good to her.

However, that’s about to change. At the showing of her latest designs, she steps away to take a call and a mangy-looking dog appears from nowhere to shower her with ticks before vanishing just as suddenly. Apparently as a result of a bite from one of those ticks she contracts a mysterious disease that leaves her sick, weak and suffering from memory lapses. Several months into her illness, Diana...

Madrid shoot scheduled for spring/summer.

Henry Golding (Crazy Rich Asians) will star in the sci-fi romance Daniela Forever from Colossal director Nacho Vigalondo as the producers gear up for a Madrid shoot in spring/summer. XYZ Films is financing and will introduce the project to EFM buyers next week.

The story follows a man (Golding) struggling to come to terms with the accidental death of his girlfriend who signs up for a sleep trial that would allow him to reconstruct his life with his girlfriend through lucid dreams.

Nahikari Ipiña and Vigalondo are producing for Sayaka Producciones, along with Benoit Roland at Wrong Men,...

Actress Eva Green is in the middle of a lawsuit with company White Lantern Film over the production–and cancellation–of the movie A Patriot, with her WhatsApp messages recently under scrutiny.

In the WhatsApp messages, Eva Green made remarks about the production being “a fucking nightmare” and at one point having a “shitty peasant crew”, stemming from the movie’s budget being slashed. However, Eva Green is saying that her messages don’t necessarily translate to true feelings. After all, how many times have you texted “Lol” when you were in fact not laughing out loud? And come on, have you ever really rolled on the floor laughing?

When prompted if she consistently lied through messages, Eva Green said, “I have a very direct way of saying things. I was not expecting to have my messages exposed in court. It is already very humiliating.” She added, “Sometimes you say things you don’t mean.

February is yet another stacked month for Netflix.

Not only are there returning TV shows, including the Penn Badgley-starring drama You, there is a host of new releases hoping to find success on the streaming service.

Below, we have compiled a list of every single movie and TV show coming to both Netflix in the UK and US.

Find the full list of everything being removed from the platform this month here.

Nb: The Independent compiled this list with help from What’s on Netflix.

UK

Original Titles

TV

2 February

Freeridge season one

3 February

Class season one

8 February

The Exchange season one

9 February

Dear David season one

My Dad the Bounty Hunter season one

You season four, part one

10 February

Love to Hate You season one

14 February

In Love All Over Again season one

Perfect Match season one

15 February

#NoFilter season one

Eva Lasting season one

The Law According...

February is yet another stacked month for Netflix.

Not only are there returning TV shows, including the Penn Badgley-starring drama You, there is a host of new releases hoping to find success on the streaming service.

Below, we have compiled a list of every single movie and TV show coming to both Netflix in the UK and US.

Find the full list of everything being removed from the platform this month here.

Nb: The Independent compiled this list with help from What’s on Netflix.

UK

Original Titles

TV

2 February

Freeridge season one

3 February

Class season one

8 February

The Exchange season one

9 February

Dear David season one

My Dad the Bounty Hunter season one

You season four, part one

10 February

Love to Hate You season one

14 February

In Love All Over Again season one

Perfect Match season one

15 February

#NoFilter season one

Eva Lasting season one

The Law According...

Slow weekend for new titles as cinemas await ‘Avatar: The Way Of Water’.

RankFilm (distributor)Three-day gross (Dec 9-11)Total gross to date Week 1. Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical (Sony) £2.1m £10.8m 3 2. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Disney) £802,106 £30.8m 5 3. Violent Night (Universal) £567,351 £1.9m 2 4. Strange World (Disney) £305,802 £1.8m 3 5. The Menu (Disney) £192,742 £3m 4

Gbp to Usd conversion rate: 1.23

Sony’s Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical held first place at the UK-Ireland box office for a third consecutive weekend, as cinemas await the arrival of Avatar: The Way Of Water.

On its third weekend in cinemas, Matilda dropped just 16 on its previous session...

Children fashion designer Christine (Eva Green) fights complicated mental health issues after a deadly accident she was responsible for, but never got convicted of, because it happened somewhere else – in a sweatshop in the Philippines. This is of course a wild guess during the first 30 minutes of the film’s runtime, because Christine has no recollection of that particular event, and we build the bigger puzzle along the road that finally does answer all questions except the one about the legal ramifications. She is just presented as someone suffering from a number of symptoms beginning with a (selective) memory loss, quivering and hallucinations to something that makes her wear a Cpap mask at night. With her career on hold, and not much she can analyse without the material to talk about, Christine is a wreck and there is no way denying it. Between different manifestations of the malaise, she...

Also out this weekend is a live brodcast of New York’s Metropolitan Opera ’The Hours’ at 133 venues.

Distributors have steered clear of major new releases this weekend ahead of the UK and Ireland December 16 opening of Avatar: The Way Of Water, however there are some notable arthouse titles debuting at the box office.

Cannes premiere The Silent Twins is this weekend’s widest new release, playing in 160 sites for Universal, following Tamara Lawrance and Letitia Wright’s recent British Independent Film Award (Bifa) win for best joint lead performance. The Lure’s Agnieszka Smoczynska directs this Poland-uk co-production, which is Smoczynska’s English-language debut,...

There is sharp social commentary in this fashion forward chiller but Lorcan Finnegan’s film is let down by a plot revelation visible from space

In the nicest possible way, Eva Green can suggest demonic possession with the merest arch of an eyebrow, or a wolfish flash of teeth. She is such a dark heart that when she turns up in this film playing a children’s fashion designer, I half expected her to gobble up one of the little darlings whole. But no, she is not the angel of death in this politically engaged London-set horror. Not to begin with at least; that role belongs to a Filipina housekeeper called Diana (Chai Fonacier).

Nocebo opens with Green’s designer Christine putting on a fashion show. As the kids bounce up the runway, she takes a phone call. Her face slackens as she repeats the horror of what she’s hearing (“… pulling out bodies?...

A new English-language Filipino mystery thriller “Nocebo” will be released in UK cinemas, starring Pinay actress Chai Fonacier as a mysterious visitor with a dark secret who brings Filipino folklore into the home of Eva Green and Mark Strong. Catch it in cinemas nationwide from Friday 9 December from Vertigo Releasing.

“Irish filmmaker Lorcan Finnegan is proving himself to be a master manipulator of benign space, turning the familiar or domestic into a nightmarish labyrinth of horror”

Nikki Baughan, Screen International

“Nocebo is an accomplished film… The film features terrifying images that are truly frightening, and others that are profoundly beautiful”

Julia Olmo, Cineuropa

Nocebo

Directed by Lorcan Finnegan (Vivarium)

Screenplay by Garret Shanley

Starring:

Eva Green

Mark Strong

Chai Fonacier

Synopsis:

A fashion designer (Eva Green) is suffering from a mysterious illness that puzzles her doctors and frustrates her husband (Mark Strong). Help arrives in the form of Diana, a...

Organizers of the 33rd edition of the Singapore International Film Festival are naturally keen to prove that the event is as nearly as possible back to normal after two years of Covid turbulence. Thong Kay Wee, in his first full year as program director, has also been keen to put his mark on the lineup.

That effort has been embodied by a widening of the Asian-themed festival’s geographical catchment area and a simultaneous completion of the shift to thematic presentation of the selection.

“When I came in, I wanted to break the geographical mold of how curation is done. I wanted to actually profile them in terms of interests. So, I thought through them in terms of where you will position things,” Thong told Variety.

This year’s lineup stretches to 101 films (features and shorts) from 50 countries, to play out over 11 days. Local, Singapore-made films account for about a quarter.

XYZ Films has boarded horror film “In Flames” and will handle North American sales rights.

In the Karachi-set film, after the death of the family patriarch, a mother and daughter’s precarious existence is ripped apart by figures from their past – both real and phantasmal. They must find strength in each other if they are to survive the malevolent forces that threaten to engulf them.

The film is directed by Zarrar Kahn, an award-winning Pakistani-Canadian writer, director and producer, produced by Pakistani-Canadian Anam Abbas and executive produced by Indian-American Shant Joshi.

“In Flames” is officially a Canada-Pakistan co-production with support from Telefilm Canada. Production companies include CityLights Media, Other Memory Media and Fae Pictures.

The film is currently in post production and working towards a festival premiere in 2023.

Kahn said: “We’re thrilled to partner with XYZ films in bringing ‘In Flames’ to audiences. Our goal was to create a...

We’re nearing the end of the year, which means pretty soon we’ll be looking back on 2022’s best horror offerings. As always, we’re planning a whole lot of year-end coverage to take you through the holiday season, but don’t count 2022 out just yet. There are still a handful of upcoming movies that should be on your radar, so we’re not yet done looking forward…

Four new horror movies are releasing for Thanksgiving this week, but the biggest new release of the week is a brand new take on a classic TV series from a legendary filmmaker.

Here’s all the new horror releasing November 22 – November 27, 2022.

First up, Shudder has debuted the brand new original vampire movie Blood Relatives today, which was directed by and also stars Noah Segan (Deadgirl, Knives Out).

In the film, “Francis, a 115-year-old Yiddish vampire, still looks 35. He’s been roaming...

The Singapore International Film Festival (Sgiff) is back for its 33rd edition from November 24 to December 4, bringing a robust programme of 101 films, many of which will be making their international or Southeast Asian premieres in Singapore. Here are the top films that you have to check out!

1. Myanmar Diaries

Myanmar Film Collective produced Myanmar Diaries serves to remind the world about their struggle against a murderous state. It showcases the life and emotions of Myanmar citizens after the military junta in Burma overthrew the government in February 2021. The citizens were thrust into a world where state-sponsored violence was rampant and challenged the junta. This hybrid documentary consists of film captured by people recounting their own experiences and description of the feelings that the Burmese experienced after the coup.

2. Nezouh

A film about a family’s experiences in war-torn Syria, Nezouh shows a family of 3 living in Damascus who have...

Lorcan Finnegan is back with another mind-bending horror-thriller with Nocebo. The film revolves around a fashion designer suffering from a mysterious illness who begins relying on her new Filipino nanny's healing remedies, though at the risk of developing a dangerous relationship between the two.

Eva Green leads the cast of Nocebo alongside Mark Strong (Cruella), Chai Fonacier, and Billie Gadsdon. Highlighting the rich culture of the Philippines, as well as layering in social commentary regarding how capitalist greed is damaging to the nation, the film proves to be both a chilling and enlightening horror genre outing.

Related: 10 Best Hidden Gem Horror Movies From 2022 To Watch This Halloween Season

In anticipation of the film's arrival, Screen Rant spoke exclusively with director Lorcan Finnegan to discuss Nocebo, discovering the story during a research trip, his biggest influences for the film, and more.

Lorcan Finnegan on Nocebo

Screen Rant: I'm really excited to talk about Nocebo.

Eva Green is placing her bets on “happy” sets going forward.

The “Casino Royale” alum addressed the notion that other actors have a “don’t talk to me” policy while in character for roles. Green, who leads the thriller “Nocebo” as a mentally disturbed fashion designer, called the horror genre “jubilating” in its freedom to “let all your demons out” during production. But that doesn’t mean utilizing the misinterpreted Method acting tactic of strictly staying in character.

“This was a very happy set. I’m not somebody who is like, ‘I’m still the character, I’m sorry, don’t talk to me,’ you know?” Green told The A.V. Club. “It’s just a little movie…But as an actor, thank God I’m not really living what Christine is going through. Otherwise, I would have ended up in a cuckoo home.”

Green noted that the indie thriller offered...

Indie distributor Utopia, currently in theaters with Holy Spider, anticipates music documentary Meet Me In The Bathroom will be its biggest weekend opening to date.

It’s holding onto numbers for Sunday from one-night premieres this past week in LA at the Fonda and in NY at Webster Hall with live performances by The Moldy Peaches, Adam Green, Wah Together and special guests Tim Heidecker and Jim Jarmusch. This weekend, the event film by Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace, co-produced by Vice, Xtr and Pulse Films, opens at the IFC Center and Los Feliz with multiple shows sold out. Films and presales speak “to the growing 2000s nostalgia, but also the iconic impact of the bands featured in the film and their continued artistry and output,” said marketing chief Kyle Greenberg.

This early 2000s NYC indie rock scene immersion acquired out of Sundance expands to 150 screens Nov. 8 for one-night engagements...

"Nocebo" is an equally psychological and physical horror movie. It's mind and body horror, both surreal and all too realistic. Director Lorcan Finnegan's film takes a horrific part of the world, which is best not to spoil, and turns it into a suitably nightmarish setting featuring stars Eva Green and Chai Fonacier. 

The home is another cage in Finnegan's new film. "Lorcan explored that a bit in "Vivarium,'" Green told us in a recent interview, referencing Finnegan's 2019 sci-fi mystery. "It was something like being the perfect house, but it's too perfect and you choke. There's something when everything is too perfect, it's not right."

Green is an actor who works with true independent spirits. The "Penny Dreadful" star has made some box office hits, like "Casino Royale," but she's also made several out-of-the-box films, such as "Franklyn," "Perfect Sense," and "The Salvation." With "Nocebo," Green stars in another...

Stars: Eva Green, Mark Strong, Billie Gadsdon, Chai Fonacier | Written by Garret Shanley | Directed by Lorcan Finnegan

Christine is a successful fashion designer. She lives with her marketing consultant husband Felix and their daughter Roberta in a huge house in the middle of Dublin. As Nocebo opens they’re out in front of that house with their expensive cars deciding who’s going to pick Roberta up from her private school. Life, as they say, has been good to her.

However, that’s about to change. At the showing of her latest designs, she steps away to take a call and a mangy-looking dog appears from nowhere to shower her with ticks before vanishing just as suddenly. Apparently as a result of a bite from one of those ticks she contracts a mysterious disease that leaves her sick, weak and suffering from memory lapses. Several months into her illness, Diana...

Eva Green in Nocebo Image: Courtesy of Flje Films and Shudder Eva Green is one of those actors who dabbles in enough psychological horror projects that it’s tempting to break the ice in an interview by asking her, “Are you okay?” But as the Penny Dreadful and Miss Peregrine star reveals,...

In his last film, 2019’s “Vivarium,” Lorcan Finnegan gave the fantasy of homeownership a nightmarish makeover to mediocre results. Even at 97 minutes, that movie feels like an interminable slog. But worse still is its thuddingly literal premise, where Jesse Eisenberg and Imogen Poots find themselves trapped in a planned neighborhood and forced to raise a child while they dig their own graves. As if moviegoers needed another film that suggests suburban domestic life is a trap of tedium and drudgery that bilks people of agency and fulfillment so the next generation may suffer the same fate.

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There are two ways domestic service can go in horror movies: Either the innocent worker is walking into a diabolical trap, or she (it’s almost always a woman) is in fact the smiling angel of death, bringing doom to privileged employers who are oblivious of peril until it’s too late. In Nikyatu Jusu’s “Nanny,” which reaches theaters later this month, we get Scenario No. 1. In Lorcan Finnegan’s new “Nocebo,” about another immigrant laborer hired into a wealthy household, it is No. 2.

Similarly offering somewhat upscale genre fare, this first-ever co-production between Ireland and the Philippines is a diverting if not entirely successful mix of sociopolitical commentary with psychological and supernatural suspense elements, stronger in the realms of directorial style and performance than writing. Rlje Films opens the feature on 115 U.S. screens this Friday, with release to digital and VOD platforms Nov. 22, then niche streamer Shudder’s various territories later on.

I've always found the expression 'it's all in your head' to be a bit odd; well, yes, things are in our head, as that's where we process the information that we're given by our senses and our experience in the world. Just because it's all in our heads, doesn't mean it isn't happening or it isn't real. Such is the case with Lorcan Finnegan's new film, Nocebo. What exactly is happening is slow to reveal (though perhaps not as slow to be figured out), but it definitely wants us to question how our emotional state can affect our physical health, and just how much guilt we can bear - and really, what we should take responsibility for, when we are the cause of other's grief...

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Christine’s (Eva Green) perfect life comes crashing down with a phone call on what should be the best day of her professional career. A children’s clothing fashion designer, her latest catwalk is proving an immense success once the buzzing pushes her into the next room to learn horrible news for which we can only hypothesize from the word “bodies.” As shock and horror wipe the smile from her face, she hangs up with a quietly distraught attempt to pretend none of it happened. That’s when Christine spies the blind dog standing in the corner of the room. She watches as it approaches, the masses of ticks covering its flesh made visible in the light. It shakes. A mite burrows into her neck. And everything turns upside-down.

Despite nobody else seeing the dog, a mark is present on the back of Christine’s neck. Are the debilitating shakes,...

Eva Green as Christine in Nocebo. Photo: Rjle If you didn’t already know that the star of Nocebo was named Eva Green, plenty about the movie might suggest it: she wears green, her character’s house is painted green on the inside, and she spends most of the movie “green around the gills,...

At long last, Happy Halloween! Earlier this month, Marvel took a scary risk that paid off immensely with Werewolf by Night, a Special Presentation shot in black and white that showcases a slew of exciting Marvel characters that have yet to hit the screen. The upcoming Disney+ special Director by Night examines Michael Giacchino’s detailed vision and how he brought it to life with immense care. Lorcan Finnegan’s Nocebo follows a woman experiencing a strange illness and the nanny who tries to care for her. Plus, check out some older horror movies coming to streamers.

Rlje Films will be releasing the Eva Green psychological thriller Nocebo in the United States on November 4th, and to help you decide whether or not this is a movie you’d like to watch the weekend after Halloween, we have the trailer for Nocebo embedded above! And VOD release will follow on November 22nd. Variety reports that Vertigo Releasing has acquired the U.K. and Ireland distribution rights and will be releasing the film there on December 9th.

Directed by Lorcan Finnegan (Vivarium) from a screenplay written by Garret Shanley (Without Name), Nocebo finds Green taking on the role of

a fashion designer who is suffering from a mysterious illness that puzzles her doctors and frustrates her husband. Help arrives in the form of Diana, a Filipino carer who uses traditional folk healing to reveal a horrifying truth.

Green is joined in the cast by Mark Strong (Shazam!) as...