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If you’re hungry for another Gothic vampire period piece in the wake of Nosferatu, sink your fangs into The Vourdalak on Blu-ray on April 8 from Oscilloscope Laboratories.

The 2023 French film is adapted from Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy’s 1839 novella The Family of the Vourdalak, which predates Bram Stoker’s Dracula by over half a century.

Adrien Beau makes his feature directorial debut from a script he co-wrote with Hadrien Bouvier.

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The film is presented presented with 5.1 surround stereo sound in French with English subtitles.

When the Marquis d’Urfé, a noble emissary of the King of France, is attacked and abandoned in the remote countryside, he finds refuge at an eerie, isolated manor. The resident family, reluctant to take him in, exhibits strange behavior as they await...

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Previous winners include Oppenheimer, The Last of Us, Top Gun: Maverick, Spider-Man: No Way Home, and House of the Dragon, but Dune: Part Two has reigned supreme this time.

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New seasons of ‘Severance,’ ‘The Traitors,’ and ‘Mythic Quest’ make up this month’s best streaming titles and events.

New year, new month, new recommendations!

Get ready to build up your watchlist this January with plenty of incoming additions to top streamers like Netflix, Max, and Disney+. This month, A24’s “A Different Man,” starring newly minted Golden Globe winner Sebastian Stan, will make its SVOD premiere, joining other recent hit thrillers like “The Vourdalak” and “Red Rooms.” But if you’re already caught up on the nominees and winners of last night’s awards ceremony, there is plenty to watch throughout the rest of the month— from major series returns like “The Traitors,” “Mythic Quest,” and the long-awaited second season of Apple TV+’s psychological thriller “Severance.”

Ready to watch? Check out our picks for the best movies, series, and events streaming the rest of January!

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There are many ways to start 2025, from starting with your new goals to spending quality time with your friends. However, there is something equally intriguing: watching movies. Thanks to the plethora of streaming services and their options, you can now view these films from the comfort of your couch. The only problem is that far too many movies are coming to these platforms each month, making it difficult for entertainment enthusiasts to choose one. To help you keep track, we've created a directory of every movie that will be available on major streaming services in January 2025, including Netflix, Shudder, Hulu, Prime Video, and more.

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If you are a horror fan then there is a big chance that you might have heard about the horror streaming service Shudder, and if you have its subscription you might be wondering what’s in store for you in January 2025. Don’t worry there is a host of new and old horror movies coming to the service in the upcoming month and we have listed the 10 best movies coming to Shudder in January 2025.

The Others (January 1) Credit – Dimension Films

The Others is a gothic supernatural psychological horror film written and directed by Alejandro Amenabar. The 2001 film follows Grace as she moves in a Jersey house with her three children but she soon begins experiencing strange occurrences and becomes convinced that the house is haunted. The Others stars Nicole Kidman, Fionnula Flanagan, Christopher Eccleston, Elaine Cassidy, Eric Sykes,...

The Count Of Monte Cristo is a classic novel that has been adapted many times for the screen, and though many might remember the title from assigned reading in high school, this new French take on the story is quite different. Of course, The Count of Monte Cristo hits the beats of revenge that are vital to the story, but it isn't afraid to use the narrative by Alexandre Dumas as a jumping-off point rather than a strict guideline. With a budget of over $46 million, this addition to the book's storied history is an epic worth committing to.

The target of a sinister plot, young Edmond Dantès is arrested on his wedding day for a crime he did not commit. After fourteen years in the island prison of Château d’If, he manages a daring escape. Now rich beyond his dreams, he assumes the identity of the Count of Monte...

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‘A visually stunning & emotionally devastating take on a classic scary story.’

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‘One of the best horror films of the year so far.’

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‘A tasty blend of blood, wit and social commentary.’

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Lost in a hostile forest, the Marquis d’Urfé, a noble emissary of the King of France, finds refuge in the home of a strange family… An adaptation of Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy’s 1884 vampiric novella of Gothic Romanticism “La Famille du Vourdalak”, published 40 years before Dracula, The Vourdalak is a haunting gothic tale directed by Adrien Beau and starring Ariane Labed, Kacey Mottet-Klein, and Grégoire Colin. The Vourdalak premiered at Venice Film Festival where it was nominated for Best Film at International Critics Week.

The Vourdalak arrives on Digital Platforms on 16th September 2024 from Blue Finch Film Releasing

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No Nosferatu in theaters until December got you down? Dont you fret, as there is already a great vampire movie this year in Adrien Beaus feature debut The Vourdalak. Similar in many regards to the recent film El Conde in terms of its confident tonal swings while remaining a beguiling vision all its own, this is a work of historical horror that then gets smashed together with a unique take on a well-worn genre to often fascinating results. Its a strange, silly, and sinister experience before becoming surprisingly shattering in an ending that hits you almost out of nowhere. Its the type of film that feels like its truly flown under the radar this year yet could not be more fascinating to take in. There is much that could easily lose some people when they behold elements of its grand design, but for those willing to get on its wavelength,...

Adrien Beau’s feature debut The Vourdalak is a horror film that brings a unique vibe to the table. A French, period-set vampire tale that utilizes some unique effects work to bring the titular fiend to life. The Serbian folk monster the Vourdalak is not exactly the same thing as a vampire, but they’re close cousins. The legends carry a lot of similarities, and Beau uses those to play with audience expectations, while throwing in some unexpected turns at the same time.

Based on a 19th century novel by Aleksey Konstantonovich Tolstoy, The Vourdalak opens with a young French nobleman, the Marquis d’Urfe (Kacey Mottet Klein), lost in the Serbian woods. He has been robbed by bandits, and is completely alone. He eventually finds his way to the home of Gorcha, where he is taken in by the family. Though Gorcha is the patriarch, he is absent when the Marquis arrives.

Two Indian films flexed at the domestic box office — and when they hit they really do hit, buoying exhibitors through good times and bad — with Kinds Of Kindness hitting no. 10 in a major expansion and Thelma not far behind.

Kalki 2898 Ad, a Telugu sci-fi epic from Prathyangira Cinemas, is looking at an estimated $5.4 million on 1,049 screens for the three-day weekend, at no. 5. It’s also approaching a cume of $11 million including Wednesday previews and Thursday opening day, one of the best ever openings of an Indian film in North America.

Written and directed by Nag Ashwin, Kalki is toplined by superstars Prabhas with Deepika Padukone and Amitabh Bachchan. As Deadline has reported, this is India’s most expensive film ever.

Jatt & Juliet 3, the latest instalment of the Punjabi romantic comedy franchise, from White Hill Studios, is at no. 9 with $1.8 million for the weekend at just 143 locations, and a $1.9 million cume,...

Lost in a misty forest one stormy eve, a French diplomat named Jacques comes upon an isolated homestead far from familiar comforts. Its inhabitants seem welcoming yet harbor peculiar secrets. So begins The Vourdalak, an entrancing new folk tale from writer-director Adrien Beau.

Based on a 19th-century Russian novella but feeling fresh, this 2023 film transports viewers to a remote countryside emerging from war. Shot on grainy 16mm, it crafts an eerily charming world where superstition shadows certainty. As Jacques discovers the true nature hiding behind the family’s strange behaviors, Beau steadily builds an unsettling atmosphere you feel wrapped in.

Lead Kacey Mottet Klein brings stately charm to Jacques, an outsider drawn to mystery. But the real star is a looming marionette beast brought to unnerving life. Beau makes the unnatural feel uncannily natural, feeding our need for folk horror’s blend of chills and character drama. Fans of gothic...

The Vourdalak is a vintage-looking French horror film with a unique vampire concept, set in a picturesque European countryside. The film's cast creates intricate relationships, and the story is well-paced with a clear focus on character development. The Vourdalak showcases practical effects and a strong emphasis on light and shadow, setting it apart from modern horror movies.

While watching The Vourdalak , it's almost a stretch of the imagination to believe the film initially premiered in 2023. What I witnessed could easily have passed for the 1980s or late '70s, and I say this with the highest compliments. Reminiscent of a time gone by, The Vourdalak was shot on film, truly earning the vintage look with real grain and harsh shadows that only elevate the stylization of the project. It stakes its claim as a French movie everyone should see and as the perfect summer horror movie for film buffs and casual viewers alike.

The indie market is feeling pretty good. A big film from India Kalki 2898 Ad may unseat Rrr’s North American opening weekend. June Squibb-starrer Thelma is blowing through midweek shows and stands at $3.75 million heading into week 2 steady at 1,280 theaters. Searchlight Pictures Kinds Of Kindness by Yorgos Lanthimos (Poor Things) starring Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons jumps to 500 screens from five after the best limited opening of the year last weekend.

Annie Baker’s Janet Planet from A24 goes from 2 screens to 300 and a handful of interesting indies open in limited release from Catherine Breillat‘s Last Summer to Jake Paltrow’s June Zero. Things are still quite tough but there’s room for optimism. Not clear if that will last, but it’s nice..

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We love 19th century gothic horror, don’t we folks? One of the most durable subgenres of all time. Influential to our current understanding of what horror is and how to depict it in ways so finely woven into the genre we couldn’t possibly begin to disentangle it from contemporary media.

Director Adrien Beau, making his feature film debut with The Vourdalak following a handful of spooky shorts, has created a vampire film equally indebted to the rhythms and moods of the gothic novella and the style of a Hammer horror flick. There’s no self-aware pastiche, no riffing on the genre, just an immersive attempt to bring some very particular sensibilities back from the dead. After premiering at the 80th Venice Film Festival last year, The Vourdalak is getting a theatrical release this summer. It works beautifully, mordant and sensually detailed, and it’s exactly...

The director of The Vourdalak, Adrien Beau recommends six horror favorites.

Family is the ultimate encapsulation of society. It offers us a taste of the whole world, but at a molecular level – and is very convenient if you want to destroy the world via your storytelling. The Greeks knew it with their tragedies, and we’re still using it to this day.

The tale of The Vourdalak is about how a monster can destroy their relatives from within, feeding one by one on those they love the most. In our case it’s a fatherly, patriarchal figure who has transformed into something inhuman… but the horrible threat can come from elsewhere in the family unit.

Here, I share my five favorite horror films about that very topic…

Horror Featuring… The Father And Mother

Stanley Kubrick‘s The Shining, of course, is my definitive pick when it comes to fear of one’s father.

A patriarch turns into a vampire and starts gorging on his own family; this is how The Vourdalak can be described badly. Of course, French director Adrien Beau’s debut horror feature is much more than that. The oddly comical horror drama, based on Russian author A.K. Tolstoy’s macabre novella “The Family of the Vourdalak,” is simultaneously gripping and unsettling from start to finish. It has an unmistakable fairytale vibe, albeit of the dark kind. We’re going to dissect the vampire horror in this article and look into its cathartic ending.

Spoilers Ahead

What Happens in the Movie?

After losing his escort and everything he had thanks to a sudden attack in the French countryside, King’s envoy Marquis Jacques Antoine Saturnin d’Urfe is desperate to find refuge. He’s fortunate enough to find one in a house owned by one old Gorcha. He doesn’t meet the man right away,...

Vampires are eternal, and so are movies about them. The genre shows no signs of going bloodless anytime soon, even if the oldest texts continue to inspire some of its most compelling entries. Consider writer-director Adrien Beau’s “The Vourdalak,” an adaptation of Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy’s 1839 “The Family of the Vourdalak,” a foundational novella that predates Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” by more than half a century. After premiering in Venice last year, the film arrives in theaters less than a week after the trailer for “The Witch” helmer Robert Eggers’ “Nosferatu” remake dropped — a coincidence, surely, but one that’s nevertheless emblematic of the ur-texts’ enduring influence.

“The Vourdalak” doesn’t exactly announce its blood-sucking bonafides, though the signs are all there. A stranger introducing himself as an emissary of the King of France (Kacey Mottet Klein) loses his way while traveling through a remote village and is refused...

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Gravitas Ventures travels ahead to the year 2045 for their latest indie horror effort, with The Hunger Games-meets-slasher Arena Wars released onto VOD outlets this past Tuesday.

In the film from director Brandon Slagle, “In 2045 convicted criminals are given the opportunity to compete on the world’s #1 televised sporting event. They must survive 7 rooms and 7 of the most vicious killers in the country. If they win, they regain their freedom.”

Michael Madsen, John Wells, Robert Lasardo and Eric Roberts star.

Also released onto VOD outlets this past Tuesday is the Korean horror anthology Tastes of Horror, which Well Go USA Entertainment...

Stars: Kacey Mottet Klein, Ariane Labed, Vassili Scheider, Grégoire Colin, Claire Duburcq, Gabriel Pavie | Written by Adrien Beau, Hadrien Bouvier | Directed by Adrien Beau

The Vourdalak, or if you prefer, Le Vourdalak, is the most recent adaptation of Alexei Tolstoy’s novella The Family of the Vourdalak. Written in 1839 and first published in 1850, it has already been filmed several times, most famously as the final segment of Mario Bava’s Black Sabbath, the Italians returned to the story in 1972 with Giogio Ferroni’s The Night of the Devils and most recently as A Taste of Blood by Argentinian director Santiago Fernández Calvete.

This time it’s French filmmakers, director Adrien Beau and co-writer Hadrien Bouvier who are adapting it. They begin the film with Marquis Jacques Antoine Saturnin d’Urfe looking for shelter after an attack that wiped out his entire entourage. The owner of the first house he stops at refuses to help,...

Oscilloscope Laboratories has picked up U.S. distribution rights to Adrien Beau’s The Vourdalak, and the acclaimed 18th Century vampire tale is coming to theaters this week.

The film opens this Friday, June 28th, at New York City’s IFC Center with writer/director Adrien Beau in attendance. Limited tickets for the screenings are still available Here.

While you wait, sink your teeth into an exclusive sneak peek clip below.

Adapted from Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy’s 1839 gothic horror novella The Family of the Vourdalak, which actually predates Bram Stoker’s Dracula by over half a century, The Vourdalak is said to be “an atmospheric, unexpected, sensorial experience that will leave you reeling and giddy in equal measure.” Get a taste by watching the official trailer below.

In the upcoming film, “When the Marquis d’Urfé, a noble emissary of the King of France, is attacked and abandoned in the remote countryside,...

Love in the Blood: Beau Resurrects Russian Vampire Clan in Eccentric Genre Throwback

Chuck Palahniuk wrote it best, referencing an ‘old saying’ in his 1996 novel Fight Club regarding how ‘you always kill the one you love.’ It’s certainly the sentiment ensnaring a crumbling aristocratic family in Adrien Beau’s delightfully vintage debut The Vourdalak, based on an 1841 novella by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy. These Tolstoyan vampires pre-figure Bram Stoker’s iconic Dracula, taken from a word first utilized by Pushkin of Balkan and Slavic origins with an etymology harnessing a mixture of vampire and lycan lore.…...

Madness and misfortune darken the doorstep of the 2024 Chattanooga Film Festival with Adrien Beau’s The Vourdalak, celebrating its North American premiere after an acclaimed run on the European festival circuit. Like an accidental renaissance rendition of Pet Sematary or a Napoleonic re-telling of Salem’s Lot, this French nightmare is a lush and looney folk tale of grave misfortunes. And monsters! Here be monsters…

Shot on film and featuring some incredible moments of handmade horror, The Vourdalak is, yes, a Period Piece- but not a Period Piece that haters of Period Pieces should immediately disregard. I get it, fancy talk and frilly garments aren’t for everyone…but how about live-sized puppets of skeletal ghouls with long boney fingers that stalk in the shadows at night and feast on the blood of the living? How ’bout them Elizabethan apples!? The Vourdalak is like Jim Henson meets The Brothers Grimm, filtered...

June proves another solid month for posters. Here’s hoping it’s the continuation of a trend that will keep pushing through to the winter and not one last gasp before the summer ushers in the usual avalanche of glossy photo collages.

If the indies keep coming (many below were first seen on the 2023 festival circuit), we should be in good shape. Because despite falling way behind the studios in terms of screens, they will always outnumber Hollywood in terms of titles. That’s simply the state of the industry today. You must sift through the noise to find the prize.

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Jordan Scott is back with a new feature 15 years after her debut Cracks with Fable at the helm of the marketing campaign. Their first sheet for A Sacrifice presents a seemingly normal landscape rotated ninety-degrees so that the horizon line turns vertical. A forest scene at the edge of a lake,...

The Vourdalak hits theaters on June 28, 2024, offering a unique and atmospheric vampire experience for horror fans. French filmmaker Adrien Beau is excited to partner with Oscilloscope for the U.S. release of his debut feature film. Die-hard horror fans will recognize The Vourdalak story from the 1963 anthology film, Black Sabbath.

Nosferatu might be getting ready to scare audiences on Christmas day 2024, but fans of Gothic vampire stories wont have to wait too much longer to get their fix, as the French period piece The Vourdalak is getting ready to hit theaters later this month thanks to landing a U.S. distribution deal. Based on Russian novelist Aleksey Tolstoys Gothic novella, The Family of the Vourdalak, which was first published in 1839, the story predates Bram Stokers 'Dracula' by nearly 60 years. The Vourdalak premiered during the International Critics Week section of the 80th Venice International Film Festival last year.

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When the Marquis d’Urfé, a noble emissary of the King of France, is attacked and abandoned in the remote countryside, he finds refuge at an eerie, isolated manor. The resident family, reluctant to take him in, exhibits strange behavior as they await the imminent return of their father, Gorcha. But what begins simply as strange quickly devolves into a full fledged nightmare when Gorcha returns, seemingly no longer himself... Adapted from a novella that predates Bram Stoker’s Dracula by over half a century, The Vourdalak is an atmospheric, unexpected, sensorial experience that will leave you reeling and giddy in equal measure. Prepares yourselves for Adrien Beau's The Vourdalak, picked up for distribution in the U.S. by Oscilloscope Laboratories. They released the trailer and...

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"Everything was fine here before you arrived." Oscilloscope Labs in the US has revealed the official trailer for a very peculiar French film called The Vourdalak, described as "an acclaimed 18th Century vampire tale." This initially premiered in the Critics' Week sidebar of the 2023 Venice Film Festival last year, and it will get a limited art house theatrical opening it the US this summer. For any who dare venture in to explore its darkness. Lost in a hostile forest, the Marquis d'Urfé, a noble emissary of the King of France, finds refuge in the home of a strange family... "Adapted from a novella (Aleksei K. Tolstoï's "La famille du Vourdalak") that predates Bram Stoker's Dracula by over half a century, The Vourdalak is an atmospheric, unexpected, sensorial experience that will leave you reeling and giddy in equal measure." Starring Kacey Mottet Klein as Marquis d'Urfé, along with Ariane Labed,...

The Vourdalak: "When the Marquis d’Urfé, a noble emissary of the King of France, is attacked and abandoned in the remote countryside, he finds refuge at an eerie, isolated manor. The resident family, reluctant to take him in, exhibits strange behavior as they await the imminent return of their father, Gorcha. But what begins simply as strange quickly devolves into a full fledged nightmare when Gorcha returns, seemingly no longer himself...

Adapted from a novella that predates Bram Stoker’s Dracula by over half a century, The Vourdalak is an atmospheric, unexpected, sensorial experience that will leave you reeling and giddy in equal measure."

Releasing to theaters on June 28th by Oscilloscope Laboratories

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Oscilloscope Laboratories has picked up U.S. distribution rights to Adrien Beau’s The Vourdalak, an acclaimed 18th Century vampire tale, and they’ve also unleashed the trailer.

The drama/thriller will be released exclusively in cinemas on June 28, 2024.

Adapted from Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy’s 1839 gothic horror novella The Family of the Vourdalak, which actually predates Bram Stoker’s Dracula by over half a century, The Vourdalak is said to be “an atmospheric, unexpected, sensorial experience that will leave you reeling and giddy in equal measure.” Get a taste by watching the official trailer below.

In the upcoming film, “When the Marquis d’Urfé, a noble emissary of the King of France, is attacked and abandoned in the remote countryside, he finds refuge at an eerie, isolated manor. The resident family, reluctant to take him in, exhibits strange behavior as they await the imminent return of their father, Gorcha.

“But...

WTFilms will be at the Rendez-Vous with a genre-focused slate.

Paris-based sales outfit WTFilms has taken on Fabrice du Welz’s Belgian crime thriller Maldoror and unveiled a first look at the film inspired by a true story.

The film stars Anthony Bajon as an impulsive police recruit tasked with a secret mission to track a dangerous sex offender. But when the operation fails, he goes rogue to hunt down the culprits. Now in post, the film is produced by Belgium’s Frakas Productions, with The Jokers Films’ production arm.

Maldoror also stars Alexis Manenti, Béatrice Dalle, Sergi Lopez, Laurent Lucas...

British director Luna Carmoon’s first feature “Hoard” has scored three prizes at the Venice Critics’ Week where the other standout title is Chilean documentary “Malqueridas.”

In “Hoard,” which is set in 1984 London, 7-year-old Maria and her mother live in their own loving world built on sorting through bins and collecting shiny rubbish. One night, their world falls apart, and the film joins Maria a decade later, living with her foster mother. An older stranger, Michael, then enters their home, opening the door to past trauma, magic and madness.

“Hoard,” which is being sold by Alpha Violet, took the section’s two separate audience awards, plus a special mention for its protagonist, Saura Lightfoot Leon, who plays Maria when she is older.

Another special mention went to Greek-born French actor Ariane Labed for her role in French fashion stylist Adrien Beau‘s offbeat vampire movie “Le Vourdalak,” based on a Tolstoy novella.