Introduction & Series Context MaXXXine wraps up T. Wests horror trilogy begun with X (2022) and Pearl (2022). Viewed sequentially, the three pictures remix classic genre conventions while probing fame, repression, and artistic ambition. Where X evoked low-rent grindhouse and Pearl draped itself in Technicolor melodrama, MaXXXine plunges headlong into the neon swirl of 1980s […]
Grafted is a 2024 New Zealand- made body-horror thriller that examines identity, obsession, and social isolation through the unsettling lens of extreme medical experimentation. Directed by Sasha Rainbow in her feature debut and co-written with Mia Maramara, Hweiling Ow, and Lee Murray, the film offers a stylish yet disturbing look at the mental and physical
Overview & Premise In Carry On, we meet Donald, a professor of urban studies who is paralyzed, and Eva, an emergency room doctor who works with him. As they deal with personal losses in their lives, an emotional bond begins to form between them. Both characters are trimming down powerful grief: Donald lost his life
Overview & Premise The Wages of Fear is a taut, slow-paced thriller directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot that revolves around four desperate men stuck in an impoverished Latin American village. When an oil well catches fire, nitroglycerin is needed to extinguish it. However, transporting the explosive substance through a perilous 300-mile journey poses significant danger. With
Synopsis & Narrative Structure Crescent City is an American crime thriller set in Southern fictional town facing scrutiny due to a series of ritualistic murders. It follows the story of detectives Sutter and Carson, who are attempting to analyze gruesome decapitations and identify a potential serial killer. The pattern suggests a deeply psychological or spiritual
Introduction Baby John is an action thriller released in Hindi that will premiere in 2024. Kalees directed it, and Atlee and Kalees co-wrote the screenplay. Varun Dhawan stars as John Dh’ silva, a role adapted from the 2016 Tamil film Theri, which Atlee directed with Vijay playing the lead. The film aims to appeal to
Introduction Anora is a romantic dramedy film, which will be released in 2024, and directed, written and edited by Sean Baker. He is famous for his compassionate yet unpolished depictions of marginalized lives through films like The Florida Project and Red Rocket. In Anora, Baker focuses on a marriage with a Russian oligarch’s son that
Synopsis: A Chilling Christmas Reunion Granny Krampus is about a broken British family literally forced to come together one last time for a Christmas gathering at their grandparent’s remote countryside home. What starts off as an uncomfortable gathering swiftly devolves into sheer nightmare when they are hunted by something stemming from dark folklore and family
The Platform 2 is a Spanish dystopian thriller that serves as a follow-up to the critically-acclaimed 2019 film The Platform (El Hoyo) and was directed once again by Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia. While it was marketed as a sequel, the film works instead as a prequel, detailing the origin and development of the social experiment’s brutality from
Synopsis No One Gets Out Alive, a psychological horror feature released in 2021 and helmed by Santiago Menghini, borrows its premise from Adam Nevill’s 2014 novel of the same title. Set inside a grim, crumbling boarding house in Cleveland, Ohio, the movie charts the nerve-wracking path of Ambar, an undocumented Mexican newcomer desperate to build
