![]() Starring The Queen’s Gambit’s Anya Taylor-Joy and The Crown’s Matt Smith (who look razor-sharp in their retro styling), Last Night in Soho opens by going down a psychological wormhole then ramps up the intensity as the story progresses. With his latest offering, Wright switches it up to deliver a time-hopping horror that jumps between the present day and 1960s London. ![]() His work is fun and fast-paced, and obviously made by someone who revels in being a movie nerd. Even though they’re cancelling The Midnight Club and 1899, this should make that Netflix account worthwhile this year for horror fans.Photo: Everett Collection Inc / Alamy Stock PhotoĮdgar Wright, the man behind cult British TV comedy series Spaced, has helmed six films to date, including 2004’s zombie romp Shaun of the Dead and high-speed thriller Baby Driver (2017). Sister Death will be a prequel, again helmed by the genius behind REC. A teenage girl fiddles with a Ouija board and gets possessed… OK, so 2017’s Verónica had a plot as fresh as sun-dried milk, but under the direction of Paco Plaza, it flourished into a suspenseful gem. The film’s finished – they’ve even revealed its run-time – so just put it out! Please! A September 2022 release was postponed to April 2023, only for that to be scrapped so Evil Dead Rise could have room. It screenwriter Gary Dauberman and Saw’s James Wan were announced as director and producer respectively, then…delays. We’re already eager.įour years and one apocalypse ago, New Line Cinema confirmed they were making the first big-screen adaptation of Stephen King’s vampire myth, ’Salem’s Lot. All we know is that Mia Goth, who’s played both aspiring actor Maxine and her psychopathic counterpart, Pearl, will return against the backdrop of 80s L.A. And he’ll keep his pedal to the metal in 2023 with trilogy conclusion MaXXXine. Last year, he released both X and its prequel, Pearl, making them quickly and cheaply to outrageous acclaim. Ti West is what every slasher filmmaker aspires to be. It could prove the most wholesomely gore-drenched reunion of horror’s year. Saw X will be the series’ first mainline entry in 13 years, and promisingly reintegrates Kevin Greutert – the director of the best sequel, VI – with Tobin Bell back as the big baddie. Paranormal Activity took Saw’s crown as the king of annual Halloween horrors and sentenced the franchise to death, but then two low-budget spinoffs slowly revived it. Like Halloween, the franchise built off the back of a projectile-vomiting teenager never emulated its original masterpiece, but Green has the track record to get a long-overdue renaissance up and running. ![]() So it’s no surprise the director’s been granted the keys to the Exorcist kingdom. ![]() Whether you love or loathe the sequels it spawned, David Gordon Green’s 40th-anniversary Halloween reboot was the best the series had been since it started. It’ll elaborate on the vampire’s slaughter of a ship’s crew as he smuggles himself from Transylvania to England, so steel yourself for a claustrophobic and monstrous slasher à la Alien.ĭavid Gordon Green’s untitled Exorcist film (October 13) The Last Voyage Of The Demeter’s twist on this oft-spun yarn is that it’s going to adapt just one chapter from the novel. Yep, it’s another Dracula film, this time courtesy of the mastermind behind Troll Hunter and The Autopsy Of Jane Doe. ![]() The Last Voyage Of The Demeter (August 11) ![]()
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