Any seasoned horror fan has seen their share of possession films. From The Exorcist (1973) to The Conjuring (2013), the genre has produced countless iterations of a tried and true format. The subject, usually young or otherwise vulnerable, encounters a demonic entity through direct contact with a cursed artifact, entrance into a forbidden locale, or […]
In Shaman, director Antonio Negret and screenwriter Daniel Negret venture into the terrain of folk horror, possession, and postcolonial views, weaving together a tale that is equal parts exorcism and indictment of spiritual assimilation. The picture, set in rural Ecuador, appears to follow familiar possession genre patterns at first, but it gradually evolves into something […]
Last year, we heard that Barry Levinson, director of Best Picture winner Rain Man (for which Levinson also won the Best Director Oscar), was producing a mystery thriller called American Sweatshop with Oz showrunner Tom Fontana, and Riverdale, Look Both Ways, and Hustlers star Lili Reinhart had been cast in the lead role. Now, it has been announced that American Sweatshop is set to receive a […]
Hopefully you like movies that keep you on the edge of your seat because, in 2025, there will be many of them. A handful of exciting thriller movies are on the way, from whodunits that will keep you guessing until the end to espionage dramas to book-to-movie adaptations of popular mystery-thriller books. So chances are, […]
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There’s a moment in Shaman where silence feels like a scream. A breath held too long, a prayer whispered too late. In Antonio Negret’s deeply unsettling possession thriller, the horror doesn’t just lie in demonic growls or shadows slithering across the walls—it’s in the quiet unraveling of belief. Of a mother’s certainty. Of the fragile […]
Brainstorm Media has acquired North American rights to the social media thriller “American Sweatshop,” starring Lili Reinhart, TheWrap can exclusively reveal. The film, which premiered at SXSW, marks the feature directorial debut of Emmy-nominated filmmaker and cinematographer Uta Briesewitz (“Severance”) and will be released later this year. The film is produced by Anita Elsani (“Operation […]
Myriad Pictures will launch international sales in Cannes on Queen Of The Ring, the biopic of pioneering female pro wrestler Mildred Burke starring Emily Bett Rickards, Josh Lucas, Walton Goggins, and Tyler Posey. Myriad founder Kirk D’Amico and his team will screen the film in the market. Ash Avildsen directs from a screenplay by Avildsen and […]
“Bob Trevino Likes It” sounds like a social-media-age fairy tale, except it’s not. The film’s writer-director, Tracie Laymon, based it on her own experience, and we all know that plenty of people meet online in the most happenstance of ways. That’s not a big deal. What matters, in a movie like this one, is that […]
Have you ever seen something online you just couldn’t shake? Sometimes a video rolls across our FYP or timeline that’s inexplicably violent, and before we can blink or look away, it’s scorched into our brains. Now, imagine if your job was to not look away. You’d be a content moderator, underpaid to watch one revolting […]